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Donna Brazile Quotes

I’ve organized everything for my family since I was little. I know how to delegate and budget. I solve people’s problems.

– Donna Brazile

By definition, conservatives struggle with change.

– Donna Brazile

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

– Donna Brazile

Over the years, I’ve worked for and alongside the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association. That’s because I am proud of our public school teachers – including my niece who teaches down in Louisiana – just as I am proud of our nation’s education system.

– Donna Brazile

As a longtime political operative, I know firsthand how a vote here or a vote there can make a huge difference in a close election.

– Donna Brazile

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

Food stamps are an investment in our future.

– Donna Brazile

Obama has a strong record on immigration enforcement, outdoing both Republican and Democratic predecessors. He has deported over 1 million immigrants, focusing on those with criminal records. As documented by many nonpartisan sources, by 2011, Obama had reduced illegal immigration crossings to net zero.

– Donna Brazile

I’ve had to step up when I was Al Gore’s campaign manager. I had to make significant changes as we moved from Washington, D.C. to Tennessee.

– Donna Brazile

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

– Donna Brazile

Generally, Senate races are not a referendum on the president or on any one issue but a choice between the two candidates on the ballot.

– Donna Brazile

When I was growing up, our nation was partitioned: Blacks were segregated by law in the South and largely by custom in the North, though it, too, had segregation laws. Our best universities had quota systems. Many white communities had real estate covenants to keep nonwhites out.

– Donna Brazile

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

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

In order for President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden to be moderates, they just have to present themselves between the extremes of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s isolationism and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s hawkishness – the difference between living in a cave or conducting ourselves so that we’re in need of one.

– Donna Brazile

If you rely on the media for your information, to educate yourself about the candidates and what issues are facing the country, then you get just part of the equation. I think it’s important that we as citizens of this democracy take the responsibility to get as much information as possible before we go into the voting booth.

– Donna Brazile

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

– Donna Brazile

If you’re a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest offices in the land out of the goodness of their heart and out of deference to your legal wisdom. You get a lifetime appointment, limitless prestige, a great office, and what I have to assume is a very comfortable chair.

– Donna Brazile

The grand jury system – not just in Ferguson, but nationwide – needs a hard look. Millions feel that officers who are trigger-happy are handed a license to shoot – based not on facts, but on stereotypes the officers carry.

– Donna Brazile

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

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

Poverty is a national issue and needs a federal response. After all, U.S. federal government policies helped produce massive income inequality by lopsided breaks for the super wealthy.

– Donna Brazile

No voters will be left behind.

– Donna Brazile

As a child, I lived through and survived the segregated South. I sat at the back of the bus at a time when America wasn’t yet as great as it could be. 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.

– Donna Brazile

If you’re not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.

– Donna Brazile

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

Being on food stamps can be demeaning. Cashiers know the difference between the new plastic SNAP cards and a credit card. Some food stamp recipients say some cashiers have made them feel uncomfortable and embarrassed.

– Donna Brazile

I keep telling these millennials it’s all about them to get into politics and start making things happen. They don’t care about whether or not someone is gay. They don’t care to see contraception taken away or want to even discuss it. They’re going forward, not backward.

– Donna Brazile

Failure. It doesn’t exist. ‘Failure’ is just what happens when we lose perspective.

– Donna Brazile

It’s not anti-Catholic to question, nor is it anti-Catholic to be honest about the previous shortcomings of the church, because that is the only way we can ensure its strength and dignity moving forward. It is, however, very Catholic to forgive each other and to never stop loving each other.

– Donna Brazile

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