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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. "
Edward Brooke
Leader
He
Lost
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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. "
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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 can't serve just the Negro cause. I've got to serve all the people of Massachusetts. "
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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 am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one. "
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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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" Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively. "
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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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" Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure. "
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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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" 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'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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" Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts. "
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Power Corrupts
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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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Rich
Country
" 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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Best
Religion
Character
" In my state, the Republican Party was the most progressive party. "
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Most
Republican
" 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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" The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people. "
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" I grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything. "
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Anything
Up
Out
" I had made my reputation on integrity. "
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Had
Reputation
Made
" Fred Thompson was a law partner of mine. "
Edward Brooke
Fred
Thompson
Partner
" You can't say the Negro left the Republican Party; the Negro feels he was evicted from the Republican Party. "
Edward Brooke
He
Left
Party
" 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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Foundation
" 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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Democrats
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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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