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To stand still is to regress.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
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I had made my reputation on integrity.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Reputation
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Fred Thompson was a law partner of mine.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Fred
Mine
Partner
Thompson
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Once bitten, you seldom lose the political bug.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Bugs
Loses
Political
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I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Civil Rights
Profess
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Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Labels
People
Race
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In my state, the Republican Party was the most progressive party.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Republican Party
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Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Failure
Guarantees
Hatred
Intolerance
Serve
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I was entirely comfortable reaching across the Senate aisle to work with Democrats.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Aisle
Reaching
Senate
Democrats
Entirely
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I grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Segregated
Shut
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My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Barriers
Breaking Down
Common
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I can't serve just the Negro cause. I've got to serve all the people of Massachusetts.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Massachusetts
Cause
Serve
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In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Games
Ladders
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The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Congress
Forget
Needs
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Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Moving
Party
Tea
Tea Party
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I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Boston
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When I arrived in the Senate, the moderate so-called Rockefeller Republicans held the balance of power.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Balance Of Power
Senate
Republicans
Held
Moderate
Rockefeller
So-Called
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My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Mind
Parent
Race
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You can't say the negro left the Republican party; the negro feels he was evicted from the Republican party.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Feels
Party
Republican
Republican Party
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I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Helping
Made
Wanted
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Historically we have rejected extremism on the left and the right. Centrism is the right course for America.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
America
Courses
Rejected
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I don't intend to leave the Republican Party, but I would like to move the Republican Party more to the center.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Republican Party
Center
Intend
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Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Absolute Power
Attorney
Found
Massachusetts
Power Corrupts
Absolute
Power Power Corrupts Corrupts
Absolute Power Corrupts
General
Attorney General
Corrupts
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When most presidents get in, they move to the center because they realize that this is a centrist country - even Reagan.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Center
Presidents
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I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Basis
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America is the only country in the world that classifies as Negro any person who has one drop of African blood in his or her veins.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
America
Blood
Country
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President Nixon has lost his effectiveness as the leader of this country, primarily because he has lost the confidence of the people.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Effectiveness
President Nixon
Nixon
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I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Republican, as was my mother, in Virginia.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Massachusetts
Republican Party
Virginia
Chose
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I wanted to go to Washington to bring people together who had never been together before. I wanted to break down the barriers between races.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Barriers
Break
Together
Wanted
Before
Between
Bring
People Never Down
Washington
Down
Races
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I was one of God's chosen few, no doubt about it. Not only being elected, but the joy and pleasure I derived from it. It was a wonderful life.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Chosen
Doubt
Joy
No Doubt
Pleasure
Wonderful
Wonderful Life
Derived
Elected
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Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season, you reap the harvest.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Victory
Water
Years
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My fervent expectation is that sooner rather than later, the United States Senate will more closely reflect the rich diversity of this great country.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Fervent
Great Country
Senate
Sooner
Closely
Expectation
Reflect
United States Senate
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Richard Nixon was a very complex man. I don't think he was a conservative, nor liberal, not even a moderate. He was a pragmatic politician. He loved politics.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Conservative
Politician
Pragmatic
Complex
Richard
Liberal
Moderate
Nor
Nixon
Richard Nixon
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I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Rights
White
Years
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I always believed there would be an African-American president. It was something I'd dreamed about, thought about, but certainly did not believe would happen in my lifetime.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
African American
Lifetime
Believed
Dreamed
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My campaign confirmed my belief that although there are bigots in America, whose hateful rhetoric seizes the media's attention, the vast majority of people do not harbor such prejudice.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Bigots
Hateful
Prejudice
Rhetoric
Campaign
Confirmed
Vast
Harbor
Vast Majority
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The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Century
Civility
Congress
Decline
Disservice
Polarization
Politics Political People
Rise
American People
Attack
Blot
Early Years
Political System
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When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Government
Cancer
People
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I had male breast cancer and had dual radical modified mastectomy, and I've spent a lot of time working with the Susan G. Komen foundation to make men aware of male breast cancer - if you have breast tissue, you can have breast cancer.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Breast Cancer
Foundation
Mastectomy
Radical
Male
Dual
Modified
Susan
Tissue
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I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Able
Approach
Black
Bones
Born
Race
White
Life Man Your
Understand
Run
Difference
Soon
Tried
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I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color of their skin. Those things don't matter to me. I want someone who's qualified, who has a qualification to character and the integrity to do the things that have to be done to save this world.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Religion
Character
Color
Done
Integrity
Matter
Party
Race
Skin
Political Party
Qualification
Save
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When I left the Senate in 1979, there were several publishers who had approached me about writing an autobiography, and I knew that politicians write books for many reasons, but at that time, I just thought I wasn't ready and my story wasn't over, and I knew I had a new life ahead of me.
Edward Brooke / Former United States Senator
Autobiography
New Life
Publishers
Senate
Life Time Me
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