Harvey Gantt Quotes

Every race I've been in, I calculated race into the equation. If you're in America, you calculate it into the equation. It is a factor. I never make it an issue. I don't run the campaign wearing it on my sleeve, but I don't run away from it, either.

Harvey Gantt

• America
• Race
• Equation

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• During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

  

  Kate Smith
  • God
  • America
  • Presidential

• Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • America
  • Free

• America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • America
  • Dream

• Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Work
  • America
  • Education

• What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • More
  • Promises

• I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Believe
  • America
  • Black

• Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • May
  • Man
  • Same

• Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Friends
  • America
  • Happy

• Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

  

  Gail Collins
  • World
  • Work
  • Women

• We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.

  

  Gary Locke
  • America
  • Government
  • Succeed

• If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Leadership
  • Working Hard

• Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Win
  • Need
  • Race

• Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • America
  • Christian
  • Years

• There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • America
  • Day

• America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Better
  • Well

• I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted people to know how the foster system in America fails children; and how, at 18, they fall through the cracks. Then we can all work together and give support.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Work
  • Children

• When you use the word 'filibuster,' most of us in America - and I count myself among them - envision it as the ability to hold the floor on rare occasions to speak at length and make your point emphatically and even delay progress by taking hours.

  

  Jeff Merkley
  • America
  • Progress

• To me the earth's most explosive and pernicious evil is racism, the inability of God's creatures to live as One, especially in the Western world.

  

  Malcolm X
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• Just like medicine anywhere else, I get to walk through life with people in the midst sometimes of their most difficult and challenging circumstances they've faced - a terminal diagnosis, bad news, poor prognosis - and also the most joyful times with people, like the birth of a new baby.

  

  Kent Brantly
  • People
  • Life
  • Bad

• The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this... and the Ocean does that.

  

  Hafez
  • Ocean

• Every race I've been in, I calculated race into the equation. If you're in America, you calculate it into the equation. It is a factor. I never make it an issue. I don't run the campaign wearing it on my sleeve, but I don't run away from it, either.

  

  Harvey Gantt
  • America
  • Race
  • Equation