When do any of us ever do enough?
BARBARA JORDANLet 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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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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What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.
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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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Life is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.
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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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The earth is bread we take and eat.
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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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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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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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The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
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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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I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.
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We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
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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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For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.
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