I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.
BARBARA JORDANIf we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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Life is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.
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How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance — the one value that is indispensable in creating community.
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“We, the people.” It is a very elegant beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that “We, the people.”
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Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.
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A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They’ll recognize that.
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When do any of us ever do enough?
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Let’s all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.
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Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.
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I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.
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The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual.
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[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.
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What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.
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There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
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If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.
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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
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We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
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A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
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Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
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I never wanted to be run of the mill.
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But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.
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Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse – what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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…for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.
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