We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
BARBARA JORDAN
BARBARA JORDAN
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Barbara Jordan72 quotes“We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.”
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He’s just incapable of it.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan 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.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan The earth is bread we take and eat.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan 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.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation… but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan We must exchange the philosophy of excuse – what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker’s child to miss school in order to earn…just so the family can eat. That is the moral bankruptcy that trickle-down economics is all about.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
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