Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
BARBARA JORDANIf youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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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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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.
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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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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in ‘We, the people.’
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There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
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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.
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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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We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
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We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.
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Life is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.
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The stakes … are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
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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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What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.
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A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.
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It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
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If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.
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We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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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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What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
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We can certainly defuse the intensity of the anti-immigrant feeling if we can bring some reality to the discussion by showing that they are not using that many resources.
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I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit.
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If you’re going to play the game [politics] properly, you’d better know every rule.
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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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We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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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.
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