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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.

Barbara Jordan

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 reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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Decision Emotional Passion
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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Majority Peace Ubuntu
We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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Backgrounds Made Party
The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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Character Inspirational
One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.
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Benefits Illegal Immigration
The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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America Citizens Want
If you’re going to play the game [politics] properly, you’d better know every rule.
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Games Knows Play
“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
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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Erode Men Want
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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America Cities Groups
I never wanted to be run of the mill.
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Mills Running Wanted
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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Anger Food Thinking
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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Belief People View
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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Country Guiding Principles Ideas
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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Authority Believe People

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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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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