If you’re going to play the game [politics] properly, you’d better know every rule.
BARBARA JORDANWe must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker’s child to miss school in order to earn…just so the family can eat. That is the moral bankruptcy that trickle-down economics is all about.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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The earth is bread we take and eat.
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What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.
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One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.
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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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A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
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Life is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.
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We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.
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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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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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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.
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If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.
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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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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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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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The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
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