For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future. – 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. – 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. – 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
The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument. – Eliot Spitzer