Edward Brooke Quotes
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I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.
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When I left the Senate in 1979, there were several publishers who had approached me about writing an autobiography, and I knew that politicians write books for many reasons, but at that time, I just thought I wasn't ready and my story wasn't over, and I knew I had a new life ahead of me.
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Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.
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I can't serve just the Negro cause. I've got to serve all the people of Massachusetts.
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Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.
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I wanted to go to Washington to bring people together who had never been together before. I wanted to break down the barriers between races.
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My fervent expectation is that sooner rather than later, the United States Senate will more closely reflect the rich diversity of this great country.
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I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color of their skin. Those things don't matter to me. I want someone who's qualified, who has a qualification to character and the integrity to do the things that have to be done to save this world.
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I grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything.
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I was one of God's chosen few, no doubt about it. Not only being elected, but the joy and pleasure I derived from it. It was a wonderful life.
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I had male breast cancer and had dual radical modified mastectomy, and I've spent a lot of time working with the Susan G. Komen foundation to make men aware of male breast cancer - if you have breast tissue, you can have breast cancer.
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When most presidents get in, they move to the center because they realize that this is a centrist country - even Reagan.
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Richard Nixon was a very complex man. I don't think he was a conservative, nor liberal, not even a moderate. He was a pragmatic politician. He loved politics.
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I was entirely comfortable reaching across the Senate aisle to work with Democrats.
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President Nixon has lost his effectiveness as the leader of this country, primarily because he has lost the confidence of the people.
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I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.
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Fred Thompson was a law partner of mine.
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I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.
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I always believed there would be an African-American president. It was something I'd dreamed about, thought about, but certainly did not believe would happen in my lifetime.
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You can't say the Negro left the Republican Party; the Negro feels he was evicted from the Republican Party.
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When I arrived in the Senate, the moderate so-called Rockefeller Republicans held the balance of power.
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I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Republican, as was my mother, in Virginia.
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Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.
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I don't intend to leave the Republican Party, but I would like to move the Republican Party more to the center.