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

-- Barbara Jordan

#Government Quotes #Shaping The Future Quotes #Willing Quotes

“Ideals, my girl,â€Â she says. â€œAlways easier to believe in than live.â€ â€œBut if you don't at least try to live them,â€ Bradley says, â€œthen there's no point in living at all.”
“I am no longer able to be anonymous.”
“I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.”

Source : "Hate Takes A Holiday" by Beth Broderick, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2008.
“And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.”
“It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.”
“I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.”
“We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.”
“Ultimately, broadcasters and advertisers have to change the way they do business or they run the risk of linear TV becoming obsolete.”

Source : "Dish's Charlie Ergen: Networks' Criticism of Ad-Skipping Service Is 'Disingenuous'" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 8, 2012.

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