Edward Brooke Quotes

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Edward Brooke

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 26, 1919

You can't say the Negro left the Republican Party; the Negro feels he was evicted from the Republican Party.

Edward Brooke

I had made my reputation on integrity.

Edward Brooke

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.

Edward Brooke

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

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In my state, the Republican Party was the most progressive party.

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Fred Thompson was a law partner of mine.

Edward Brooke

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

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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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I always believed there would be an African-American president. It was something I'd dreamed about, thought about, but certainly did not believe would happen in my lifetime.

Edward Brooke

President Nixon has lost his effectiveness as the leader of this country, primarily because he has lost the confidence of the people.

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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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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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I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one.

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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 grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything.

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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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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.

Edward Brooke

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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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.

Edward Brooke

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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