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"My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington."
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"When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice."

"Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch."

"Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes."

"Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States."

"I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists."

"With Pollution, emotion is irrelevant, it is not their nature, Mearth sighed, making a face as if she were talking to an ignorant small child. "I didn't create them, humans created the Pollution. Cheryl Nobel, Alecto Steele, Albert Sanders, Olivia Campbell, all my pretty little Representations, there aren't many of them left these days but they're still very dangerous! They're here to tell society all about its mistakes! You don't understand the world of Representations."

"Wherever you are remember you represent Christ."

"I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress."

"Wherever you are remember that you represent Christ."

"The Good News of love must be a lifestyle, not a program for Christian."
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"My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe."

"We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost."

"I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right."

"Over the last fifteen months we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been to fifty-seven states. I think, one left to go."

"And then, on September 11, the world fractured.It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day and the days that would follow--the planes, like specters, vanishing into steel and glass; the slow-motion cascade of the towers crumbling into themselves; the ash-covered figures wandering the streets; the anguish and the fear. Nor do I pretend to understand the stark nihilism that drove the terrorists that day and that drives their brethren still. My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction."

"No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will."

"I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!"
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