I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
BARBARA JORDAN
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We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.
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When do any of us ever do enough?
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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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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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Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other …Fairness treats everbody the same.
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If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.
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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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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse – what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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Life is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.
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Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It’s tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
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…for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.
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The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
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If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined by their eighteenth-century thought patterns, you would know that if anybody is going to be liberated, it’s men who must be liberated in this country.
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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
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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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