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"I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away."

"Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party."

"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."

"The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election."

"Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party."

"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."

"The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking."

"The party of Lincoln should be reaching out to blacks, Hispanics gays and so forth and so on."

"The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral."
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"If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?"

"When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action."

"The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy."

"There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics."

"Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine."

"The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?"

"I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power."
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