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A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

Barbara Jordan

The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
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Court Lasts Protection
One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.
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Benefits Illegal Immigration
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation… but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
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Attempt Country People Promise
It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.
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Democratic Immigration Responsibility
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
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
“We, the people.” It is a very elegant beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that “We, the people.”
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Documents People September
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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Freedom Inspirational Memorable
The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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Character Inspirational
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
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
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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Believe Positive Reality
Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
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Constitution Democracy Today
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
I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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Country Democratic Party Thinking
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

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