Quotes About Representation

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

It's a good thing the American people aren't getting all the government they're paying for.

There is a fine breed for you, Irish-Indian. My family crest would be a Shillalah with a Tomahawk on one end.

Thank God we don't get all the government we pay for.

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.

In a full-fledged case of desire, by way of contrast, a creature is able to form a mental representation of the thing it desires, compare the current state [sic] with the desired state, and initiate action to diminish these states. Only a creature with considerable brainpower will have these abilities.

To see what God is like, we must look at Jesus. He perfectly represents God to men in a form which they can see and know and understand.

None can imitate life without the intermediary of art.

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

By its nature, government was either small and personal, something on the level of a town hall meeting, or it was tyranny, with the few ruling the many for their own benefit, no matter how representational that government might be in theory.

There is only one thing I wast to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence.

Surely part of the moral meaning of representative government is that the representatives from all parts of a vast nation coming together in a great mosaic not only represent the interests and visions of their respective localities but also then learn from each other, affect each other, reason together, diminish their respective provincialisms, and shape something nearer to the common good.

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

They paint what they see and we paint what we are watching.

Every outfit carries cultural baggage of some kind. It took me a while to get a handle on this aspect of performance.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

there are just 435 members of the House of Representatives and 100 in the Senate for almost three hundred million people.