Quotes by Barbara Jordan

“Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.”

“If you're going to play the game properly you'd better know every rule.”

“One thing is clear to me: we, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.”

“We believe in equality for all, and privileges for none. This is a belief that each American regardless of background has equal standing in the public forum, all of us. Because we believe this idea...”

“Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.”

“I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.”

“What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.”

“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.”

“A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.”

“Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.”

“We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order...”

“For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.”

“Earlier today we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States. ‘We the people.’ It is a very eloquent beginning. But, when that document was completed on the sevente...”

“My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.”

“A spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny; if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a ...”

“What people want is simple. They want an America as good as its promise.”

“You need a core inside you—a core that directs everything you do. You confer with it for guidance. It is not negotiable.”

“This country can ill afford to continue to function using less than half of its human resources, less than half its kinetic energy, less than half its brain power.”

“Those who hold the public trust must adhere to the highest ethical standards there are. The job requires it, and the public must demand it.”

“There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.”