Quotes by Barbara Jordan - Page 2

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Education
Holiday
Inspirational Life
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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.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
America
Attempting
Inflation
People
Promise
Unemployment
Scale
Fulfill
Larger Scale
Present
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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.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Government
Balance
Belief
Ideas
Ought
Strike
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I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: 'What is my exciting thing for today?' Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Life
Motivational
Morning
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I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Capacity
Compassion
Incapable
Understanding
Women Believe I Believe
Women Believe Man
Women Man Believe
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The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Believe
Country
People
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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 Jordan / American Politician
Women
Believe
Compassion
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Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Common Sense
Heed
People
Ties
Voice
All Americans
Bind
Ignore
Let Us
Recognize
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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 Jordan / American Politician
Democratic
Democratic Party
Giving
Party
People
Beliefs
Enough People
Exposition
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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.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
America
Backgrounds
Democratic
Democratic Party
Diverse
Party
Thinking
Accident
Identified
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Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Citizens
Ideas
Suffering
Unwilling
American
Idea
Citizen
Each One
Her
Participate
Realized
Shared
Suffer
Though
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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.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Men
Erode
Want
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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 Jordan / American Politician
Inspirational
Future
Government
Officials
Public Officials
Release
Slogans
Vision
Accountable
Public
Hold
Press
Provide
Strictly
Required
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We 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.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Children
Order
School
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Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Credibility
Immigration
Should
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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 Jordan / American Politician
Feelings
Texas
Want
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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.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Government
Destiny
Founders
New Ways
Republic
Handed
Implement
Improve
Realize
We Cannot
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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.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Believe
Mistake
Party
Admit
Mistakes
Recognize
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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 / American Politician
Achieve
Better Future
Circumstances
Discomfort
Innovation
Order
Party
Willing
Adapt
Reject
Suffer
Traditions
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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Court
Court Decision
Decision
Felt
Hamilton
Interpretation
Left
Mistake
People
Process
Years
Alexander
Amendment
Washington
Finally
George
Included
Somehow
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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.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Democratic
Democratic Party
New Ways
Party
People
Political
Political Parties
Principles
Parties
Throughout
Uphold
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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 Jordan / American Politician
Common Good
Example
Hypocritical
People
Public Servants
Sea
Good Must People
Official
Servants
Uphold
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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.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
America
Common
Community
Destiny
Difficult
Easy
Harmony
National Community
Share
Spirit
Tough
Each
Forming
Illusions
National
Remembers
Survive
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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.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Country
Discarded
Gains
Guiding Principles
Ideas
Indigenous
Principles
Short Term
Represent
Guiding
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There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Community
Decision
Form
Law
National Community
Order
People
President
States
Veto
American People
Executive
Individuals
No Law
Require
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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.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Great
America
Cease
Cities
Danger
Faces
Groups
Individual
Interest
Seeking
Great Will America
Against
Collection
City
Nation
Each
Instead
One Nation
Private
Region
Satisfy
Suburb
Wants
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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.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Future
Society
Belief
Common
Community
Done
Endeavor
National Community
Share
Together
Address
Master
Must
National
Puritans
Reject
Restore
Sense
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All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you?ve got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you?re going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Believe
Inspirational Life
Play
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We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Deafness
Haste
Irreversible
Raised
Temporary
Actions
Consequences
Condition
All People
Mistakes
Full
Foresee
Hear
Voices
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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.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Work
Men
Country
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Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But that does not mean conformity. We are more than a melting pot, we are a kaleidoscope, where every turn of history refracts new light on the old promise.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Becoming One
Light
Mean
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My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminuation, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. It is reason and not passion which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Constitution
Decision
Passion
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I do not bring any professional knowledge of the issue to bear, but what I do bring to my consideration of immigration is a deepened and highly sensitized feeling with those persons who feel alien in our country. I can feel the strangeness they feel because it is something I have experienced in a different area.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Country
Feelings
Issues
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The Commission agrees that the federal government should help alleviate these costs. The best way to do so is to reduce illegal immigration.... We recommend immediate reimbursement of criminal justice costs, because these conditions can now be met, but we urge further study of the costs of health care and education before impact aid is provided.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Government
Impact
Justice
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...we must face the fact that unilateral action on the part of the United States will never be enough to stop illegal immigration. Immigrants come here illegally from source countries where conditions prevail that encourage or even compel them to leave. Attacking the causes of illegal migration is essential and will require international cooperation.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Country
Immigration
United States
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The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. The arts are not a frill and should not be treated as such. They have the potential to become the driving force for healing division and divisiveness.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Art
Carpe Diem
Healing
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The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Art
Carpe Diem
Differences
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The Commission endorses prevention as the principal strategy to use in deterring illegal entries. We applaud the efforts of innovative Border Patrol leaders such as Silvestre Reyes with Operation Hold the Line in El Paso. Operation Hold the Line demonstrated that a strategic use of personnel and technology can combine at our land border, as it has for many years at our airports, to reduce unauthorized crossings.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Technology
Airports
Years
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I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens and people who are here lawfully. I, as chair of this commission, would not be a party to any system that I felt was an unpardonable intrusion into the private lives of people. If I felt that what we are recommending would be such an intrusion I can assure you that recommendation would never have seen the light of day, not even as a pilot program.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Light
Party
Rights
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We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. King Hussein Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. - Thomas Jefferson We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
Barbara Jordan / American Politician
Kings
Dark
Mistake
Past
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