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What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise. – Barbara Jordan

Other quotes by Barbara Jordan

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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Barbara Jordan
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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that. – Barbara Jordan

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Future
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Other Quotes from
America
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It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die. – Margot Asquith

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America

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. – H.L. Mencken

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America

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word. – Marshall McLuhan

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America

America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to agnostics for Christmas. – John Burton Brimer

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America

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I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands of the director and the special effects co-coordinator and you keep your fingers crossed and hope that the creatures look really scary. – Edward Burns

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Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude. – E.P. Powell

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No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing. – Claudius

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If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. – Albert Camus

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