Quotes About Representation

I don't make films to reproduce reality.

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level.

I represent New York, I represent the Bronx, I represent the Dominican Republic. And I always have that in mind with everything that I do.

We have a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica.

The Republican Party is not inclusive.

Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one.

The Republican Party just isn't held in high repute in the black community. Under Bill Brock we were reaching out to broaden the base of the party. We have to go back to that.

The Republican Party does not reach out.

I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.

So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.

Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest bidder as opposed to the people they claim to represent. I cannot be bought.

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard.

As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.

For the most part, congressional Republicans represent people who are whiter, older and richer than most Americans, and our creaky old political system gives those Americans disproportionate influence over public policy.

Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.

I showed people Republicans in Florida can do more than talk.

Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot.

Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying.

At the end of the day, Democrats go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far left; Republicans go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far right. Hey, there's a big middle ground here that's not represented. I think that, Bill Weld and myself, I think the Libertarian Party really occupies that ground.

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

The Republicans in the House and Senate took the district that I firmly represent, 22 in south Florida, from a D plus one to a D plus five almost a D plus six district, which means you are given a five to six percent registration advantage to Democrats. They drew in more Democrats into the district I represent.