Donna Brazile Quotes

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Donna Brazile

Profession : Politician

Birth : December 15, 1959

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

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

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Yes, President Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, but a hundred years later, the Republican Party wasn't Lincoln's. Richard Nixon became president by courting Americans upset by integration, intentionally fueling the racial divide.

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The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.

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No voters will be left behind.

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Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

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Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.

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We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race.

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Fear is one of the worst, and most limiting, emotions in life.

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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.

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I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.

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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.

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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.

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I have a simple rule: when I'm on TV, I'm not talking to just my anchor or my colleague on my right. I'm talking to America. I look into the lens, and in my head, I'm talking to somebody in Nebraska. Why Nebraska? Why the Cornhusker State? I have no idea. But it feels like it's a good place to talk to people.

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Every member of my family was displaced by Katrina.

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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.

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On every show that I have been on, I have played myself.

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If a critic doesn't think I can act, it's because I'm not acting. That's me - and that's the way I act.

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Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out.

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I may not be a trained actor, but I've paid my dues. And I mean that literally. I am a fully dues-paid member of SAG/AFTRA. As a political figure, I've been called a 'card carrying' member of numerous groups that I'm not a member of - and now I'm being called a non-actor when I am literally a card-carrying member of the union for actors.

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