Unbalanced Representation Quotes

We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.

Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and across continental Europe the figures are more like several thousand.

In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.

Filibuster is nothing less than a formula for tyranny by the minority

The election in Russia was free but not very fair.

The great defect in the past custom is that executive patronage has come to be regarded as the property of the party in power.

Guys get voted into the Hall of Fame who don't belong, who lack the numbers. I'm very upset at the Hall of Fame for that. It's not fair to the people who went in early.

What I think is wrong is spending £9m of taxpayers' money on one particular piece of one-sided propaganda.

The evils we experience flow from an excess of democracy.

There are so many reality shows on now where they want you to be crazy, the girls are just going bananas; you know how they portray brown girls. They portray us in a different type of light.

I suspect unconscious bias has been far more of a factor for President Obama than overt racism and will also be a challenge for Hillary Rodham Clinton if she runs for president again.

One Representative to thirty thousand inhabitants is a very inadequate representation…

No newspaper which is supporting one class of society is independent.

Where enough money calls the tune, the general public will not be heard.

Political correctness - the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media - ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand.

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'

Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.

There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it's not there.

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white.

Point-blank, there is not enough diversity in media.

If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play.

Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m.

I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.