Quote by Shirley Chisholm
At present, our country needs womens idealism and determination, p

At present, our country needs womens idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. – Shirley Chisholm

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The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: Its a girl. – Shirley Chisholm

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Equality
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It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. – Shirley Chisholm

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In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed. – Luke Ford

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Politics

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country. – Jon Meacham

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Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but its awful policy. – Chris Christie

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Politics

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. – Albert Einstein

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