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Barbara Jordan

"A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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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."

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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."

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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."

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Barbara Jordan
"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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Barbara Jordan
"Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment."

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Barbara Jordan
"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."

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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."

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Barbara Jordan
"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."

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Barbara Jordan
"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.""

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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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Barbara Jordan
"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."

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Barbara Jordan
"We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community."

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Barbara Jordan
"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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