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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.

Barbara Jordan

One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.
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Benefits Illegal Immigration
I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.
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Mills Persons Running
The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
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Court Lasts Protection
It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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Decision Emotional Passion
We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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Acceptance Inspirational People
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
Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.
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Justice Peace Ubuntu
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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Freedom Inspirational Memorable
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse – what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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Excuse Philosophy Responsibility
We can certainly defuse the intensity of the anti-immigrant feeling if we can bring some reality to the discussion by showing that they are not using that many resources.
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Feelings Immigration Reality
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
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
When do any of us ever do enough?
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Any Effort Enough Hard Work
The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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Character Inspirational
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
…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

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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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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