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.
BARBARA JORDAN
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Barbara Jordan72 quotes“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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In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan 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.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan 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.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan 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.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan 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.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan 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.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan 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.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan 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.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan The earth is bread we take and eat.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan 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.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
Barbara JordanBarbara Jordan Let’s all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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