Quotes About Representation

Every time you play for your country, there is responsibility. But when you are captaining, you can say so; you have to lead from the front and make sure the team follows the direction you want them to.

It's an immense pride for me to be captain of the national team.

We need to see not only leads of color, but contestants, people behind the scenes, people on the team, the Bachelor franchise as a whole.

When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.

All Spanish players want to play for the national team.

I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

I was able to represent my country and put on the red, white, and blue - how many people in the world get to do that? Standing on the podium with my teammates, and being the first women's gymnastics team to win this gold medal, it was life-changing!

I really enjoyed being with my teammates and representing Mexico, but I didn't go where I wanted to go.

Tattooed across NASCAR drivers' jumpsuits and over every square inch of their cars are the logos of the companies sponsoring the teams, underwriting the costs, paying their salaries. Everyone can see who the drivers represent and who is footing the bill.

Chronicling the mid-1970s up session with Gerald Ford's clumsiness, the author quotes a medieval maxim that the king has two bodies. The head of state has a physical body like everyone else, but he also represents the body politic, either reflecting its majesty or its weakness.

If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going to have to make them, they're going to have to finance them. If you let Hollywood do it, Hollywood is going to get it wrong most of the time.

A self-perpetuating aristocracy easily hardens into an oligarchy, and therefore a senate, for example, should be replenished from the ranks of the people.

Art imitates nature, but does not copy it.

I'm beginning to view democracy as the Siri of political systems. So much better in theory.

democratic theory is concerned with processes by which ordinary citizens exert a relatively high degree of control over leaders;

The American constitutional system is not majoritarian.

Flags, like bodies, are powerful symbols.

the most important feature of a map is the degree of correspondence between the elements in the map and the elements of the territory they represent.

The problem is not the size of government but whom the government is for.

Republicans want us to believe that the central issue is the size of government, but the real issue is whom government is for. Public

Republicans want us to believe that the central issue is the size of government, but the real issue is whom government is for.

We don't always get to decide what others see when they sum us up or reduce us to a caricature of the rich and various selves we think we have fashioned.

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

Under a reorganization carried out in 1920 the national commissariats became regular departments of the central organization, and affiliated sections were created in the executive committees of regional soviets. In that same year a Council of Nationalities was formed as a Narkomnats collegium in which each nationality in the RSFSR had representation.