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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes a

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future. – Barbara Jordan

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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. – Barbara Jordan

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

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Future
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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. – Barbara Jordan

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The EU is not a country and its not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together. – William Hague

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In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people. – Wilma Mankiller

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I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make? – Yuri Milner

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As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world. – Lech Walesa

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