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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Adlai Stevenson I
Change
Better
Job
Inevitable
Full-Time
Full-Time Job
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Adlai Stevenson I
Words
Free
Free Society
First
Society
Open
Principle
Forum
Flow
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai Stevenson II
Patriotism
Dedication
Outburst
Steady
Emotion
Lifetime
Tranquil
Short
I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.
Agnes Macphail
Myself
Women
Equality
Other
Absolute
Want
The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
Al Franken
Life
Culture
Hypocrisy
Poverty
Looking
Christian
Think
Tremendous
Extreme
Extreme Poverty
Religious
Point
Voters
Global
Global Warming
Issue
Warming
Should
Speaks
Among
Right
Start
Christian Right
You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community.
Al Smith
Family
You
Care
First
Community
Neighborhood
Out
Take
Take Care
Within
Spread
Go
Then
Your
There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
Alan K. Simpson
People
Long
First
Liberties
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Must
Slope
Only
Step
Leaders
Toward
Loss
American
Where
Staircase
American People
Tolerated
Each
Downward
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
Alexander Hamilton
Rights
People
Protection
Citizen
National
Everywhere
General
Purposes
Individual
Been
Privileges
Same
Each
Each Individual
Enjoying
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
Alexander Hamilton
Change
Consist
Possible
Must
Constitutions
General
Only
Calculate
Permanent
Provisions
Cannot
Should
Reason
Things
Necessarily
I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Destiny
Born
Determines
Where
Place
Your
Code
Zip
Change takes courage.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Change
Courage
Takes
We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Culture
Fear
Political
Community
Way
Intimidation
Governed
Patronage
Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Truth
Democracy
Speak
Power
Our
Designed
Congress is too old. They don't have a stake in the game.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Game
Old
Congress
Too
Stake
What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we're going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Class
People
Matter
Party
Assume
Out
See
Color
Bland
Proposals
Take
Takes
Democratic
Democratic Party
How
Going
Just
Turn
Working
Communities
Granted
Working-Class
I'm not running from the left; I'm running from the bottom. I'm running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Running
Bottom
New
Advocacy
Left
New Yorkers
Fierce
Working-Class
Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.
Ami Ayalon
Future
Will
Wind
First
Sail
Once
Earth
Easier
He
Know
Him
Does
Go
Where
Want
Decide
Wants
Much
Who
Captain
Agree
Present
Bring
Every night, whisper 'peace' in your husband's ear.
Andrei A. Gromyko
Peace
Husband
Every
Whisper
Your
Ear
Every Night
Night
You don't build walls; you build bridges between people.
Andrew Cuomo
You
People
Walls
Build
Between
Bridges
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
Aneurin Bevan
Time
Genius
Made
Only
Could
Mainly
Island
Fish
Surrounded
Same
Same Time
Shortage
Produce
Coal
Organizing
I'm passionate about people. I've spent my life in advocacy. People matter - whether or not we agree on the issue, people matter.
Ann Marie Buerkle
Life
People
Matter
My Life
Spent
About
Advocacy
Issue
Passionate
Whether
Agree
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Ann Richards
Politics
You
Hurt
Enemies
Will
Said
Always
Friends
Your
There is not a doubt in my mind that the people of America are hunkered down. They are afraid.
Ann Richards
People
Mind
Doubt
Down
America
Afraid
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Antonio Gramsci
Intelligence
Will
Pessimist
Because
Optimist
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
Barbara Jordan
Good
Responsibility
Nation
Willingness
Share
Upholding
Common
Common Good
Formed
Us
Each
We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.
Barbara Jordan
Good
You
People
Rest
Example
Nation
Ourselves
Tell
Must
Hypocritical
Call
Uphold
Official
Common
Common Good
Public
Public Servants
Servants
Set
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