Representation Gap Quotes

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

A lot of members of Congress are isolated. They tend to be affluent. They tend to have a lot of people doing things for them. So sometimes they don't understand what their constituents are feeling.

People don't like what's happened to the big parties. They think they've been dragged off to the extremes. They think the quality of leadership is below what a country like the United Kingdom ought to have available. And they want something different.

There's a high level of frustration with the two-party system out there.

In L.A., I was a talent manager for many years. I represented many African-American actors. After a while, I became disheartened over the shortage of roles for African Americans.

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.

I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.

A lot of these so-called left positions are actually centrist by the standards of the American people, just not by members of the American Congress.

There's a difference between actresses of color and actresses not of color. If you look at how big my movies are.

The world is yearning for more inclusion, because we're not living in 1930 where we've got X amount of superheroes and X amount of representation.

I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.

It's about very talented writers, directors, producers, and actors being in a position for their projects to be supported, but there's just not enough black projects being made.

The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy.

Americans hate Congress but can't help ourselves from re-electing its members over and over again.

With Asian-Americans actors, specifically, there's been fewer opportunities for them in TV and film and fewer that have the ability to actually make a career out of it. It becomes a bit of a chicken and egg situation, where they're like, 'Oh, but they're not famous names,' but they haven't had a chance to be in anything yet, either.

There are people of all colors and creeds across our state who've lost faith in our political system.

In many respects we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on the major public issues of the day, and such issues are scarcely debated at all in any meaningful sense in the electoral arena

I come from a place where we feel like we're not represented in the national media.

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

One thing I do not see happening is women of certain age being represented correctly. We have to evolve conceptually.

The working class is very under-represented in politics, literature, and everywhere else.

Our political system has been bankrupted by the failures of Congress to act in ways that give meaning to the struggles our constituents endure.

The disconnect between what people think and what the political leaders are actually doing is something that we really need to start raising.