Quotes About Representation

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers.

I don't believe in religious tests, and I don't believe my religion is all that important to the people I represent. And I think there's too much religion in politics.

All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

I don't think politics is any longer about a conversation with the country.

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...

The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.

This proves what a purifying effect women would have on politics.

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.

The deaf community is hungry to see itself in the most positive way.

I think hiphop is a beautiful thing and I embody it and I'm going to live it and I'm going to represent it until the day I leave this earth, because I represent everything positive about hiphop.

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.

Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness.

A single man is minority, a leader is the majority.

I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.

Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.