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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.

Barbara Jordan

One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.
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Benefits Illegal Immigration
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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Distinction Immigration Law
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
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Education Keys Political
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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Example People Sea
The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual.
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Believe Country People
The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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Character Inspirational
A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
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Future Government Shaping Willing
What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.
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Integrity Peace War
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.
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Citizens Cost Generations
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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Feelings Texas Want
The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
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Court Lasts Protection
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
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
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
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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Party People Political
The stakes … are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
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Government Sports Stakes

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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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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