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Donna Brazile
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Doing
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" The biggest problem for the Republican Party has never been its primary calendar, its campaign tactics, or a lack of trainings. The party's biggest problem is what it believes, what it says, and how it governs. "
Donna Brazile
Calendar
Republican
Problem
" I was told, time and time again, that God's potential didn't exist in people like me. I've spent my life fighting to change that. And, from the first day when I met Hillary Clinton, I've known that she's someone who cares just as much and fights just as hard. "
Donna Brazile
Day
Life
God
" Our focus is on electing Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine and Democrats across the country, thanks to Democratic Party that is strong, unified, and poised for victory in November. "
Donna Brazile
Party
Strong
Country
" Until there are no more hate crimes, no more vicious bullying and ugly slurs, whenever a person comes out - whether that person is a celebrity or a 'nobody' - it should be celebrated like the triumph of courage it is. "
Donna Brazile
Courage
Ugly
Triumph
" If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother informed me that I could not become a priest because I was a girl. It really was the biggest blow to my ego, because it was my calling. When she told me I'd have to be a nun, I looked at her and said, 'I'm not following anyone.' "
Donna Brazile
Mother
Me
Early
" At the same time that Donald Trump was facing a federal discrimination lawsuit for refusing to rent to minority families, Hillary Clinton risked her own safety to seek out the truth, to comfort the afflicted, and to make a home for justice where there was none. It was at the Children's Defense Fund that I met Hillary. "
Donna Brazile
Truth
Home
Justice
" Politics is a rough and tumble business. It's not for the faint-hearted. I've got bruises and cuts from being in the political arena. But by and large, I understand how to navigate the process. "
Donna Brazile
Process
Business
Political
" If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you. "
Donna Brazile
Will
Your
You
" Hillary Clinton, because she's the Democrats' presumptive 2016 front-runner, has become the target du jour. Frankly, I don't know how public figures get through it. "
Donna Brazile
Target
She
Know
" Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages. "
Donna Brazile
African-American
Behind
Women
" Let me say this as your incoming chair of the Democratic national committee: I promise you, my friends, I commit to all Americans, that we will have a party that you can be proud of. We will elect Democrats up and down the ballot. "
Donna Brazile
You
Friends
Party
" For some Republicans, 2016 is 1992: Hating Hillary Clinton is chic again. Only more so, since the former secretary of state is also the partner of and potential successor to the last two Democratic presidents - Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. "
Donna Brazile
More
Two
Potential
" After Katrina, no one was the same. People, relatives, they were dying one after another. "
Donna Brazile
Relatives
Dying
After
" Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective. "
Donna Brazile
Lose
Failure
Perspective
" Low turnout in off-year races is always a challenge for Democrats. Many of our voters require information and must be contacted way ahead of Election Day - and reminded of what's at stake. "
Donna Brazile
Information
Challenge
Election
" It is easy to fall into despair thinking about all that is wrong with the world. The joys seems so small in comparison. Internet videos of cats riding Roombas just can't compete with a father talking about how his dead 13-year-old son had wanted to be a pilot. "
Donna Brazile
Thinking
Cats
Small
" School integration did not come to be the day after the Brown ruling was issued. Progress took years, and it took passion, strength, and courage from a large group of committed individuals. "
Donna Brazile
School
Day
Passion
" As a child, I sat in the back of the bus. I was told, time and time again, that God's potential didn't exist in people like me. I've spent my life fighting to change that. And, from the first day when I met Hillary Clinton, I've known that she's someone who cares just as much and fights just as hard. "
Donna Brazile
Child
Day
God
" Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out. "
Donna Brazile
Watching
Most
Real
" I think it's important in a democracy such as ours that we have multiple sources to get news and information and utilize the media only if we want to get a different opinion. "
Donna Brazile
Information
Think
Media
" We march on because all lives matter, not to be judged by the color of their skin. "
Donna Brazile
Color
Skin
Because
" I grew up within New Orleans; my greatest concern is rising water. But I think life is a process of moving items from the 'scared of' to the 'not scared of' list. "
Donna Brazile
Water
Life
Think
" I think that five, 10, 50 years down the road, we'll be honoring President Barack Obama for ending two wars, stopping the economic hemorrhage and, yes, reducing the number of uninsured. And the polls won't matter. "
Donna Brazile
Matter
Think
Road
" Due process policies such as tenure are put in place to protect good teachers from being fired without cause. They aren't there to protect 'bad' teachers. "
Donna Brazile
Bad
Good
Teachers
" Under Pope Francis, we have seen a change at the Vatican that is reflective of the church I know and love. He approaches controversial doctrine or past wrongdoing with humility, understanding, and faith in the goodness of mankind. He has served as a voice for the voiceless and has been working to re-establish the church as a home for the homeless. "
Donna Brazile
Love
Home
Humility
" Placing limits on carbon pollution from power plants is about ensuring that we have clean air to breathe and communities that are safe to live in. Carbon pollution limits are about defending families who have borne the heaviest burden of the main pollutant that is driving climate change. "
Donna Brazile
Air
Limits
Change
" The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances. "
Donna Brazile
Media
People
Politics
" George W. Bush was good as his word. He visited the Gulf states 17 times; went 13 times to New Orleans. Laura Bush made 24 trips. Bush saw that $126 billion in aid was sent to the Gulf's residents, as some members of his own party in Congress balked. "
Donna Brazile
Own
Congress
Good
" Why not add benefits for making healthy food choices, provide a transition bonus for getting off food stamps, or increase job training opportunities and income - raising minimum wage? "
Donna Brazile
Healthy
Choices
Job
" As a grown woman, I saw the first black president reach down a hand and touch the face of a child like I once was, lifting his eyes toward a better future. But I have never, ever, in all my years seen a leader so committed to delivering that better future to America's children as Hillary Clinton. "
Donna Brazile
Future
Woman
Children