A Quote by Ilhan Omar

I am not a Somali representative. I am not a Muslim representative. I am not a millennial representative. I am not a woman representative. I am a representative who happens to have all of these marginalized identities and can understand the intersectionality of all of them in a very unique way.

Ilhan Omar

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Ilhan Omar
American - Politician
Born: October 4, 1981

What I always emphasize is that I am a representative who happens to be Somali.

Ilhan Omar

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Che Guevara

I am a big supporter of experiments to complement representative gov't with randomly selected representative bodies of citizens, sure. I think most Americans would be surprised to learn just how much better we are at gov't than our gov't.

Lawrence Lessig

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

George Santayana

I want the things that I create to outshine the person that I am perceived to be, which I think is often not accurate and not really representative of who I am.

Julia Fox

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

Nate Silver

Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry.

Dinah Shore

We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of the representative.

Calvin Coolidge

I am not the leader; I am a representative of the leader. The leader is the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, whom we believe is very much alive, and is directing me from where he is.

Louis Farrakhan

I am not a representative of anything. I have my opinions.

Wes Studi

The American experiment with representative democracy has been a great success, but we need to realize that it needs to be a genuine representative democracy where ordinary people have a vote, have a voice in choosing the candidates who represent them.

Richard Painter

It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational values of the Australian people. The extreme right has connotations with it that I would never seek to identify with.

Eric Abetz

If a voter initiative can deny gay people access to traditional representative, democratic processes, then in California, any other small, historically disadvantaged minority group can also be denied the right of representative.

John Perez

I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives.

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