Barbara Jordan

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

If you're going to play the game properly you'd better know every rule.

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

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

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

We believe in equality for all, and privileges for none. This is a belief that each American regardless of background has equal standing in the public forum, all of us. Because we believe this idea so firmly, we are an inclusive, rather than an exclusive party. Let everybody come.

One thing is clear to me: we, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.