Barbara Jordan Quotes About Decisions

Quotes about: Decisions

• My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminuation, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. It is reason and not passion which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

  Barbara Jordan

  Passion, Decision, Constitution

  Statement on the Articles of Impeachment, delivered 25 July 1974, House Judiciary Committee

• There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

  Barbara Jordan

  Order, Law, People

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

• It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

  Barbara Jordan

  Passion, Emotional, Decision

  Statement on the Articles of Impeachment, delivered 25 July 1974, House Judiciary Committee

• I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'

  Barbara Jordan

  Mistake, Years, People

  Statement on the Articles of Impeachment, delivered 25 July 1974, House Judiciary Committee

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