#representative

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#grandfather #house #institute #lawyer #massachusetts

My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#daughter #distinguished #hon #john #lawyer

One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours. ↗

— Haldan Keffer Hartline

#degree #enthusiastically #entire #entire world #fellow

With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#children #death #death tax #down #family

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#anniversary #bombings #cities #civil #civil society

We need someone who is a strong representative of our value system. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#our #representative #someone #strong #system

I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#asian #asian american #community #i #model

I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#children #concerned #house #i #liberal

So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#america #campaign #clearly #congress #democracy

But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

#been #great #greatest #honor #honored