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.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

God is ever present. He's in every breath in every step. He's here always always.

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are in fact barely presentable.

Conscience is God present in man.

God reigns when we take a liberal view when a liberal view is presented to us.

Yesterday is history tomorrow is a mystery today is God's gift that's why we call it the present.

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space with all other matter.

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.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

I have my flaws and my issues past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know I'm vulnerable too and each one of us is.

I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present as long as the story is compelling.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity and not only this present world but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past present and future and encompasses all humanity.