Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

[After the end of her term in Congress, Barbara Jordan was recruited for a faculty position at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.] I thought, now what better thing could I do than to go there, ... to the University of Texas, to the LBJ School and help those young people become the bright leaders of government as Lyndon Johnson so wanted?

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'