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Things which matter cost money, and we’ve got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens.

Barbara 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.
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Country Guiding Principles Ideas
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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Common Responsibility Share
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.
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Children Order School
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
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Education Keys Political
It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.
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Democratic Immigration Responsibility
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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America Cities Groups
If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.
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Games Play Political
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 you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.
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Change Dissatisfied Resolve Way
The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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America Citizens Want
The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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Character Inspirational
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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Authority Believe People
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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Innovation Order Party
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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Believe Compassion Women
…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
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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Freedom Inspirational Memorable

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