Edward Brooke Quotes
When I arrived in the Senate, the moderate so-called Rockefeller Republicans held the balance of power.
Edward Brooke
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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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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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Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.
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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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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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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 don't intend to leave the Republican Party, but I would like to move the Republican Party more to the center.
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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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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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I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.
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My campaign confirmed my belief that although there are bigots in America, whose hateful rhetoric seizes the media's attention, the vast majority of people do not harbor such prejudice.
Edward Brooke
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When I arrived in the Senate, the moderate so-called Rockefeller Republicans held the balance of power.
Edward Brooke