Quotes About Representation

I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.

Westerners deserve a voice in the land-use decisions that affect their daily lives, and it would be wrong to move the Bureau of Land Management thousands of miles away from the land it manages back to a faceless marble building in D.C.

Female politicos mostly represent a rather militant faction.

I always thought that the film would be successful if we captured Harvey Milk, like the way Harvey really was-the personality, the humor, the corny bad jokes, all of it.

We need a broader party. If we're not doing better with millennials and women and Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans and others, we will have a tough time being a majority party at the national level.

America has only 100 Senators for 309 million people, but Stormont has 108 members for 1.7 million.

You can't just take and sample size a few hundred people and decide that what you think 200 - almost 200 million people are going to vote and go do. It's a complex country.

I've always had a struggle trying to get a hair campaign. It's mind-boggling.

I'd be lying if I did not say that being a woman of colour is something I am always mindful or aware of.

I feel it's better we have an open mindset to see what exactly we are trying to say. In 'Mulk,' we have not criticised any community, and neither have we said any community is good or bad. We have just shown the true picture and left it to the audience to make the choice.

I think 'Long Live the Kane' was pretty much a real boxed-in mindset with me just doing what I represented in the hood.

Definitely, a non-tribal can become chief minister in Jharkhand.

For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland.

Apart from being a chief minister, I am also the national president of my party. So I have to take care of the party in other states as well as in U.P.

Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.

The way I see it, I'm not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I'm going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.

Ethnic minorities are not one homogeneous political group.

If more stories are told about marginalized communities, subcultures, and minorities, the less marginalized they will be.

It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

Look at television and how comparatively few minorities are out there.

I would like to attract more minorities into the game. But it's extremely important that this golf look like - that golf look like America.

Only a woman can tell you what it's like to be a woman in a society where men are in charge. When you have one demographic that controls the livelihood of minorities, then you're always going to have abuses of power. So this goes way beyond Hollywood.

I've been extremely lucky in that I've been able to play roles that are not defined by their ethnicity. But that's not a common thing for people of ethnic minorities.

It's important to be able to sit together and form a government of the majority that serves everyone, and not a government of minorities that takes care of itself.