Lack of Representation Quotes

Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be. Any individual who is able to raise $25 million to be considered presidential is not going to be much use to the people at large. He will represent oil, or aerospace, or banking, or whatever moneyed entities are paying for him. Certainly he will never represent the people of the country, and they know it. Hence, the sense of despair throughout the land as incomes fall, businesses fail and there is no redress.

It is a monstrous imposition to be asked to put up with these treaties of a century and a quarter ago, in the making of which the people had no voice or say…

We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box.

I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to adequately help or protect itself. Normal citizens feel powerless, isolated and disturbed.

You can't be what you can't see.

I've been working almost 20 years, and I think I've worked with maybe one black director of photography in that time. Maybe two women directors or DPs. Maybe. And I've done a lot of TV. That's a lot of people I've worked with.

The women of Gilead have so little power.

The NCAA is one of the worst organizations - maybe the worst organization - in sports. They certainly don't care about the athlete.

There are no black women geniuses that are being named in canons. I could name a bunch, but it's not part of common knowledge. It's not how the world is taught to think about black women.

I wouldn't give Peter Dutton any of my time. It's a waste of time speaking to someone like him because they just spread lies and propaganda. He doesn't represent me, he doesn't care about people, and I wouldn't give him the time of day, to tell you the truth.

That's why people don't have respect for our national leaders. Because our national leaders don't respect the people and the needs of people of our cities.

We are trying to make politics more open. It became a Ukrainian tradition to make decisions behind closed doors.

Carrie Lam is not the leader elected by people of Hong Kong.

Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people?

We have government by the clueless, over a place they’ve never been, using means they don’t possess.

Our experience was that when we closed the door to democracy, maybe for a short while there was quiet and security, but in the long run we suffered a lot. Our closing the door to democracy did not settle the problems of our country. The problems only accumulated.

Politicians today are not highly regarded... there seem to be people young and old and in the middle saying that they have never heard such wretched debates.

Trump is not the problem. He is the symptom of the problem where Americans no longer believe that the system works for them.

I'm enormously sympathetic to talented people who have few roles to choose from.

My voice was not heard, the questions were not asked that I wanted to see asked.

The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.

There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.