Quote by Barbara Jordan
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

Other quotes by Barbara Jordan

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three oclock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. – Barbara Jordan

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Society
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We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny. – Barbara Jordan

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Government
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Future
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Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement. – Christopher Bond

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Future

I had been feeling a little rum. I didnt think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I dont know what the future holds, if anything. – Maggie Smith

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Future

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now. – James A. Baldwin

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Future

My goal is more to be remembered. Theyll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen. – Chuck Palahniuk

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Future

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. – John Cheever

Category:
Knowledge

I wont compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way. – Lewis Thomas

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communication

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. – Henry Adams

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Miscellaneous

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. – A.E. Housman

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Remembrance