There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life comedy.
Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it but had the representation of democracy in it.
The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.
Women ought to have representatives instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature a type nowhere at present existing.
When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.
We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
That fatal drollery called a representative government.
A little group of willful men representing no opinion but their own have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
I don't know if high society is different in other cities but in Hollywood important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.
Man is born passionate of body but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.