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.
BARBARA JORDANMore 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.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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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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Life is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.
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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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The stakes … are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
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We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
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“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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I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.
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The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
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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.
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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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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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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse – what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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If you’re going to play the game [politics] properly, you’d better know every rule.
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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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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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The earth is bread we take and eat.
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[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.
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