Quotes About Representation

In my work as an actress and an activist, I've spent many years working with low income communities and people of color who don't always have a voice in our political process.

It's a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.

You can have great ideas, and you can have all the right policy goals. But unless you're expanding who is included in the political process, you won't connect the two.

There are people of all colors and creeds across our state who've lost faith in our political system.

You wouldn't expect ABC or any of the mainstream networks to take a position on immigration, health care, anything. But at Univision, it's different. We are pro-immigrant. That's our audience, and people depend on us. When we are better represented politically, that role for us will recede.

We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?

The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.

It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful.

My European constituents are among the most politically engaged people I represent.

I have a very politically diverse district.

It's so politically incorrect to make a character gay and then make them 'un-gay' again. Like, once you become gay, you've crossed over, or you're not allowed to be a person who doesn't want to be defined by a label like that.

I believe that a politician needs to be with people.

I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.

I am the people's politician. If the day should ever come when the people can't save me, I'll know I'm finished.

I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

We realize there is no political party or politician who fully takes into consideration the issues the church is about. This is nothing new to us.

The politician is your best friend - he always wants to be there when he's asking for your vote. But then, often, he doesn't have time for you when he gets into office. To me, it's the opposite. They should listen to you more when they're actually in office.

You should not want to be a politician because you want to be president. You should be a politician because you want to fix the world or represent a movement.

I'm an elected politician. If you don't agree with me, vote for somebody else.

A politician can go out and speak for him or herself, but actually for the family it's difficult - although it does bind you.

I guess I am a more, I don't know, consumer-facing politician.

As a black member of parliament and minister for nearly a decade, I was determined not to be defined by my race. I didn't want to be 'the black politician', when being black is just a part of who I am.