Quotes About Representation

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

We're sometimes treated like the stupid cousin, so I'm always drawn to characters that make you feel good about being Welsh.

The media like a good fight. They pick out the extremes and they leave out all the people in the middle who believe in both God and evolution.

I'm the messenger. I'm just really the messenger. Although I've been a very good messenger, let's face it, right? I've been a pretty good messenger.

It feels good to watch TV and know that you're being represented on somebody's network and for certain communities, it feels even better to know that you're being depicted truthfully.

When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job.

Superhero roles seem to be popular. I'd like to see more female superheroes. How about a grandmother superhero? I'd pay good money to see that.

I was a very, very good congressman.

I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.

There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.

It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves.

All good art is abstract.

Learn your audience and know how to reach them and don't sign anything without a good lawyer and a capable agent.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.

Government is instituted for those who live under it.

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

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.

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by 'the people' is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must be included.