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We call ourselves public servants but I’ll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

Barbara Jordan

One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.
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Benefits Illegal Immigration
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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Freedom Inspirational Memorable
I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
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Community Form Kind
The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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Character Inspirational
If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
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Politics Produce Promise
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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Majority Peace Ubuntu
We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
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Believe Positive Reality
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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Adversity Hard People Work
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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Destiny Equality Peace
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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Constitution Democracy Today
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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Caring People Teaching
Life is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.
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Hanging Life Men Out
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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Credibility Immigration Policy Sentence
We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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Backgrounds Made Party
…for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.
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Ends Immigration People
I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.
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Mills Persons Running

We call ourselves public servants but I’ll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

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We call ourselves public servants but I’ll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

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