Quotes About Community

I've been a candidate for office at least eight times. A couple times for mayor, state representative, city council.

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been one of my good friends in the House of Representatives. When she was brutally shot, Gabby was out doing what she loved to do - meeting with her constituents in a local setting, allowing people to speak to her directly about the issues that concerned them.

We have to have a school board that's actually gonna be able to function and that has true parent representatives on it.

I live in a city and a state and a country where I support my elected representatives.

I shouldn't be the only African American Republican in the House of Representatives.

I have been blessed, working both at the local level on a community school board, the state assembly, four years in the state senate, and now almost 12 years in the House of Representatives.

Then we have a World Run, where representatives from all the charters meet.

The people of South Jersey, and local, state, and federal Representatives will not allow a permanent closure of the Atlantic City Rail Line.

I like representing different kinds of black people - showing they exist.

What I'm guilty of is trying the hardest and giving 100 percent of myself and putting my heart and soul into representing the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn.

I think I'm representing a new generation of Latinos - bilingual, bicultural people.

In my years of public service at both the federal and state levels, I have had the privilege of representing most of the communities that make up Congressional District 21, including Hialeah, Westchester, Doral, Kendall, Miami Lakes, Hialeah Gardens, Medley and Palmetto Bay.

That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.

We're representing our districts. I make decisions on my district.

At the Olympics, I'm representing the United States as well as the town and people who helped shape me.

I stand for the Midwest. That's why the album's titled 'M.O.,' 'cause I'm still holding it down like that. My friends and family all call me Mo, so it's kind of like really representing where I'm from and me at the same time.

For me, it's just a pleasure to be out in the community wearing my Ducks logo on shirts and hats and so forth in representing the team.

There is no question that I loved representing the people of South Florida.

We took pride in representing where we came from, took pride in being from small places, and places all around the world and being able to come together and make ourselves into a team, into a group of guys with one goal and get that done.

Everyone who passes through 'Drag Race,' and especially the people who are able to have really big careers after the show, has a responsibility to the queer community to do a good job of representing queer people across the board to be kind and loving.

I get reached out to by a lot of people who just thank me for representing them and their friends. Just showing people like them on TV. It's just really awesome to hear from them.

I'm representing the LGBT community, and I want to do well for them.

I'm representing for the plus-size community and the plus-size industry. It feels amazing to be able to be the voice that we need.

Everyone in the league would say that they would love to go back home and play for their city. It's just something about representing home.