28 Quotes by Eddie Bernice Johnson

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.

I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.

I try hard to convince them it’s important – but there’s a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

All issues are women’s issues – and there are several that are just women’s business.

There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it’s a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don’t realize it until you start looking back.

I’m not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.