Political Quotes

Barbara Jordan

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March 3, 2025

The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.

Barbara Jordan

Mar 6, 2024

If we cannot control illegal immigration, we cannot sustain our national interest in legal immigration.

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Dec 10, 2019

I would not, quote, 'be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.'

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Dec 3, 2019

Impeachment not only mandates due process, but due process quadrupled.

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Mar 13, 2019

I cannot understand at what universe our leaders would not want to know who's a citizen and who's not.

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Mar 13, 2019

We are here for one simple reason: The commonsense question of asking citizenship on the census.

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Jun 21, 2016

Common Sense would be revolted if we engaged upon this process for petty reasons.

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Mar 4, 2013

I would be the last person to claim that our Nation is perfect, but as a Nation we have a kind of perfection in us because our founding principle is universal. We are all created equal. People come from all over the world to take us up on…

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Jun 19, 2000

What the people want is simple. They want an American as good as its promise.

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Dec 31, 1994

the current process of employment verification has not functioned as the law intended to deter the hiring of undocumented aliens.

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