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But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.

Alphonso Jackson / Former United States Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development
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In 1965, I marched for equality.

Alphonso Jackson Former United States Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development

Being poor is a state of mind, not a condition.

Alphonso Jackson Former United States Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development

For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.

Alphonso Jackson Former United States Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development

I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.

Alphonso Jackson Former United States Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development

After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.

Martin Filler

If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never gotten the Great Society. Liberalism does not discredit itself. It has to be explained and beaten back.

Rush Limbaugh Talk Show Host

If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.

Strom Thurmond Former United States Senator

Since the 1960s, when America finally became fully accountable for its past, deference toward all groups with any claim to past or present victimization became mandatory. The Great Society and the War on Poverty were some of the first truly deferential policies.

Shelby Steele Author

65 immigration acts went through right at the time of the Great Society program. So pre-1970 immigrants - and that's basically when it kicked in - pre-1970 immigrants, 30% went home. They couldn't make it.

Ann Coulter Commentator

I do think the Obama agenda is the furthest left agenda we've seen since probably LBJ and the Great Society. And the differences have been that instead of him trying to go center-left, he's gone - in my estimation - more left. He's shown the country a much more aggressive liberal, more European style agenda, and that's on a center-right country.

Sam Brownback Governor Of Kansas

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