Lack Representation Quotes

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

The government at all levels is overly represented by white men. That's part of the problem, and I'm a white man.

I didn't have a voice or a vote at Madrid.

Hindsight is obviously a very great thing, but I'm always convinced that the reason that I didn't take as many politics or history classes is because I just didn't see any women. I didn't think when I was 13, 14 that that had anything to do with me. I just didn't see women in my textbooks.

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

I sent him a List of Female Grievances. I even threatened fomenting a Rebellion in case we were not considered, and assured him we would not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we had neither a voice, nor representation.

At no point in my thirty years have I ever felt truly represented by the fashion industry.

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct.

Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.

Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.

Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard.

Some years ago, I fired my agent, Andrew Wylie, alias The Jackal. I want to stress this wasn't an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation. I fired him because his agency wasn't doing enough for me.

Being attracted to my own sex was as much part of who I was as being short or blonde or drawn to the library, but I was made to grow up feeling 'other.' Most books, films - even advertisements - didn't reflect how I felt, and I often watched the world from the outside.

I think part of our problem right now in the country is that people feel that nobody listens to them. And that means that they just don't trust anybody in government, anybody in politics, and anybody in the economy.