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It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.

Barbara Jordan

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 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.
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Community Our Future People
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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Anger Food Thinking
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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Balance Government Ideas
The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
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Court Lasts Protection
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
One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.
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Benefits Illegal Immigration
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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Destiny Government Republic
Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
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Citizens Ideas Suffering
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
We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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Acceptance Inspirational People
I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.
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Mills Persons Running
Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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Belief People View
It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.
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People Philanthropy Privilege
We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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Backgrounds Made Party
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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Believe Mistake Party

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