Wnew Fm Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing wrong with someone who receives less than a majority of the vote being elected a representative. This is almost by definition the result in a system of proportional representation that elects multiple representatives from the same geographical unit and adopts voting rules that allow numerical minorities without the voting clout ever to win a race in a single-member district to elect a favorite in a multimember district. The designof multi-member institutions, like legislatures, offers many possibilities for creativity if one's desire is to maximize the number of people who feel some sense of genuine linkage with their putative "representatives. — Sanford Levinson

I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters. — Teller

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like. — Randall Jarrell

To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all seeing, within you. — Theophan The Recluse

The train is a small world moving through a larger world. — Elisha Cooper

Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap. — Brock Clarke

Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that's the threat. I think that is the threat. I think it's just facing reality. It's not a happy reality, but it's reality and if you don't deal with it, it will become even more unpleasant. — John Bolton

You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. — Truman Capote

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. — Don DeLillo