Quotes About Representation

I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.

Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.

Asian American men, Asian men have been basically eunuchs in American cinema and television.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

The true face of the unions is not now a man in a hard hat as much as it is a woman in a classroom or in cleaning smocks.

When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.

Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

And, of course, all of my friends and family are so excited because they feel like Montreal is being represented on Mad Men.

Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him properly in the public eye.

the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

We are kings who represent the King of kings to the people of the earth. That is our ministry of reconciliation. But we also are "priests to our God," representing the peoples of the earth to our High Priest. In other words, we "stand in the gap before [God] on behalf of the land" (Ezek. 22:30). We are the "go-betweens." In a word, we intercede.

At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.

For this monarchy was not the Oriental despotism of divine right, but a monarchy such as Gaius Gracchus wished to found, such as Pericles and Cromwell founded— the representation of the nation by the man in whom it puts supreme and unlimited confidence.

We need not here repeat what was the character of the free and the servile proletariate of the capital. The significant saying was already heard, that only the poor man was qualified to represent the poor; the idea was thus suggested, that the mass of the poor might constitute itself an independent power as well as the oligarchy of the rich, and instead of allowing itself to be tyrannized over, might perhaps in its own turn play the tyrant.

A democracy—that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt

Just as democratic government cannot be condemned because of errors and even crimes committed by men democratically elected, so trade-unionism must not be condemned because of errors or crimes of occasional trade-union leaders.