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.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong it represents a loss of a billion dollars perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right it is the future of this company for the next century.

I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.

Each friend represents a world in us a world not born until they arrive and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Without freedom of the press there can be no representative government.