Raja Krishnamoorthi Quotes

I look forward to continuing to represent the people I'm currently serving, as well as the new communities that will be a part of this district in the future.

There's so much talk of representation in politics and entertainment - it's everywhere - but I didn't realize representation was important until really my senior year of high school.

I think it's important to always have diversity, in our Congress or anywhere, but you also need diversity not just for women of color who are most underrepresented, but diversity in different walks of life.

I don't think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it's much more than that. It's not just a black man. It's not just a feel-good vote. It's the idea of electing someone who really does want to make a difference.

I'm just really proud of the Democratic caucus. I look around in our meetings, and I think we really look like America.

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world.

It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.

There aren't as many roles for people who look like me, and it was always complicated when it came to casting my parents. But now I couldn't be more grateful that I have a different look.

Back when I was looking for my next step and was researching Gannett, I was interested in who was leading the various businesses within the organization: Are there a lot of women and minorities in important, operational roles, senior management and the board of directors?

We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

I want to thank the people of Texas for asking me to represent them in Washington.

I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.

God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.

As a white woman with a privileged education, I'm keenly aware that I founded an organization that can only realize its goal if it enlists many more leaders who share the backgrounds of the students and families we work with.

There aren't a whole lot of people out of 300 million who could elected to the Congress.

I think it is so great right now that we are in an age where there's an African American president in office. I think it is important for our generation to really witness that.

I've not given the poor people of Bihar heaven, but I have given them a voice.

They are entitled to their rightful share in running the country.

Every member of Congress is shaped by his or her first election.

No one ever asserts that politics has no role in apportionment or redistricting.

I’m in politics to speak up for a Canada that takes risks, that stands up for what’s right. A Canada that leads.