Quotes About Representation

Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent.

One of the many important roles of the Department of Justice is to represent the United States in civil and criminal trials.

Manmohan Singh, during his tenure as Prime Minister, said that Muslims have first right over the resources of this country. Where will the Dalits, backward, women, tribal, and others go?

Even in Poland, where the president is far less powerful than the prime minister, people have a deeper and more atavistic relationship with the person who is a serious contender to become head of state. They want their national leader - the tribal chief - to look like them, to live like them, to reflect their values.

Issues that have relevance to the tribal community have routinely been minimized and ignored.

I don't think of gay writers. I mean if you were to say to me who are the straight writers, well, you wouldn't ask me that question. So for me to identify a little tribe of gay writers, I don't know.

Tribes don't need Congressmembers' sympathy. What tribes need is for us to properly exercise our duty.

I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don't even have clean drinking water.

Never fall for a person's image and status as the may serve as a false representation of character. Watch closely the character and you"ll know who a person really is.

You gotta know what you are, who you are and how you want to be portrayed.

I don't represent large corporations and I don't want their money.

When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

At the end of the day, I'm not a model, I'm an actor. I didn't want to be a model for a brand - I wanted to be a spokesperson and to collaborate.

I am not a fan of video games, I had to learn a lot about them. I would love to play video games, but I don't want to go around shooting people, and ripping off their heads, and it's just gross.

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role model for my family and for other African Americans.

I disagree with what the majority of the American people want.

One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject.

I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me.

Politics is not only about personal choice. That one also needs to take into consideration what the people want because in the end, they are the ones who decide.