“ The system is rigged. The politicians are picking the voters instead of the voters picking the politicians. ”
- Arnold Schwarzenegger- Copy
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“ If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later. ”
- Ed Harris- Copy
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“ I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life. ”
- Cory Doctorow- Copy
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“ They all pledged to back whatever decision I made,... But I knew the heavy flak they were getting from other members of Congress and, more important, from their own constituents. ”
- Trent Lott- Copy
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“ The Belly and the Members The members of the Body rebelled against the Belly, and said, Why should we be perpetually engaged in administering to your wants, while you do nothing but take your rest, and enjoy yourself in luxury and self-indulgence?' The Members carried out their resolve and refused their assistance to the Belly… ”
- Aesop- Copy
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“ I have reminded him (Major) that there are some positive as well as some negative elements in the Dayton agreement and that lately, these negative elements are more and more prevailing. That is creating a fear among our people — a fear that that might lead to the disintegration of the country. ”
- Alija Izetbegović- Copy
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“ What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love…Give it the best there is in you… Seize your opportunities…And be a member of the team. ”
- Benjamin F. Fairless- Copy
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“ Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. ”
- Titus Lucretius Carus- Copy
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“ Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money. ”
- Richard J. Needham- Copy
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“ Human DNA spreading out from gravity's steep well like an oilslick. ”
- William Gibson- Copy
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“ There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player. ”
- Rod Laver- Copy
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“ I thought that that was a really Australian story. And I wasn't mad at Dickens about that at all. I thought that seemed like us, in all sorts of ways. ”
- Peter Carey- Copy
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“ While many members of Congress have some reservations, members of Congress by and large have decided this is the right thing to do at the right time. But now he must take this to the public. ”
- Martin Frost- Copy
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“ I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it. ”
- Norah Jones- Copy
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“ I'm down with both direct action and electoral action. We need both. ”
- Jello Biafra- Copy
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“ I'd say we have,... because of the team and the confidence factors and things. ”
- Joe Gibbs- Copy
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“ For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. ”
- Joseph Butler- Copy
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“ There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. ”
- Paul Wellstone- Copy
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“ Why did O. J. Simpson want to move to Arkansas? Everyone has the same DNA! ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents. ”
- Melvin R. Laird- Copy
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“ If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures. ”
- Boss Tweed- Copy
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“ The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
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“ A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. ”
- Guillaume Apollinaire- Copy
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“ The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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