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American Politician Inspirational Quotes (833)

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A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.
Horace Mann
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At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
Shirley Chisholm
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... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.
Shirley Chisholm
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What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays.
Bill Janklow
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Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.
Horace Mann
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The earth is bread we take and eat.
Barbara Jordan
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The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather.
William Henry Ashley
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As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.
Julian Bond
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If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
Horace Mann
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There is no coloration to rights. Everybody has rights. I don't care who you are, where you come from. You got rights. I got rights. All God's children got rights.
Julian Bond
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Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
Gerrit Smith
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My personal view is very simple: What happens in your bedroom, it's up to you. If you want to use gay marriage as an affectionate kind of thing you're doing, do it.
Marion Barry
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My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?
Shirley Chisholm
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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.
Barbara Jordan
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So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.
Sherwood Boehlert
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Consumers view of you is not about how they compare you to other banks. It's about how they compare you to all of the other businesses they experience.
Jim Gilmore
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That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.
Shirley Chisholm
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Two weeks before the attack on the USS Cole and then again two days before the attack, they saw through their analysis that a major event was going to occur in Yemen. They told the Navy not to bring the Cole into Yemen harbor. It went in and was attacked.
Curt Weldon
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Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.
Horace Mann
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Every right has its responsibilities. Like the right itself, these responsibilities stem from no man-made law, but from the very nature of man and society. The security, progress and welfare of one group is measured finally in the security, progress and welfare of all mankind.
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
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As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.
Horace Mann
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When I talk to people, their concern is, how are you going to create jobs? How are you going to help turn this economy around? How are we going to make sure that when my kids get out of high school or college there will be some job there? Those are the concerns that are on their minds.
Alexi Giannoulias
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When I was quite young, I put my trust in God--not government and I never get the two confused.
Bob Dole
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Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.
Douglas Wilder
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