Political Quotes

On the recordJune 6, 1979
Our country was not built, it has not prospered, by people who said, 'Me first, me last, me always.'
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Remarks at the Union's Founding Convention

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