top of page
Quote_1.png
Barbara Jordan

"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."

Standard 
 Customized
"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."

More 

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here."

Author Name

Personal Development

More 

Quote_1.png
Barbara Jordan
"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."

Government

Quote_1.png
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."

People

Quote_1.png
Barbara Jordan
"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."

Woman

Quote_1.png
Barbara Jordan
"If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce."

Promise

Quote_1.png
Barbara Jordan
"One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves."

People

Quote_1.png
Barbara Jordan
"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."

America

Quote_1.png
Barbara Jordan
"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."

Change

Quote_1.png
Barbara Jordan
"The imperative is to define what is right and do it."

Right

Quote_1.png
Barbara Jordan
"If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule."

Play

Quote_1.png
Barbara Jordan
"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."

People

bottom of page