There are many, many people who can recommend and advise, and a few of them consent, but there is only one who has been chosen by the American people to decide.
I should be a representative for AARP!
I've been a candidate for office at least eight times. A couple times for mayor, state representative, city council.
As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.
Me as a person, I'm not the president of the NBPA (National Basketball Players Association). I don't even know what to say. I'm not like this perfect, buttoned-up, suit-and-tie guy.
I continued to serve in Congress until 2001.
REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.
A man has to learn to be a Representative just as he must learn to be a blacksmith, a carpenter, a farmer, an engineer, a lawyer, or a doctor.
I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.
The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
If you had the opportunity to cast your vote for speaker, would you vote for Nancy Pelosi?
As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.
I think it's incredibly important that we think about diversity in the context of the White House press corps, because it's important that the group of people there is representative of the diversity that we see throughout the country.
Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible.
Needless to say, you've got to have someone who can speak for you.
A delegate cannot have a delegate. Vicarius non habet vicarium.
I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in an eminent degree, all the beneficial purposes of society.
Representative Chris Lee was forced to resign after sending a shirtless picture of himself to a woman on Craigslist. On the bright side, he DID surprise his wife for Valentines Day.
There aren't a whole lot of people out of 300 million who could elected to the Congress.
Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
Every rep I can get is valuable.
To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?
It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.
