107 Quotes by Barbara Jordan

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.

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

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

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

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.

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.