"It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision."

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Source : Statement on the Articles of Impeachment, delivered 25 July 1974, House Judiciary Committee

Barbara Jordan

#Passion Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Decision Quotes

“What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.”
“Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.”
“I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.”
“Just looking into something kind of analytically can give a lot of ideas.”

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“Listen, if you're a defender, DO BETTER!”
“Yeah, except that when I write pop songs I have pretty strict constraints that I impose on myself. 69 Love Songs is a constraint. That the titles have to begin with "I'"s is a relatively strict constraint. Charm of the Highway Strip is all travel songs. And I am free to change the plot slightly to accommodate something that happens to rhyme conveniently.”
“I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.”
“Being simple and complicated at the same is what makes Jay-Z so great.”

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