When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.


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Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going ...
BARBARA JORDAN
What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the...
BARBARA JORDAN
The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
BARBARA JORDAN
For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
BARBARA JORDAN
We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an exam...
BARBARA JORDAN
One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different fr...
BARBARA JORDAN
What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
BARBARA JORDAN
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the...
BARBARA JORDAN
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
ROBERT JORDAN
Cam Newton, his best throw is better than anybody's best throw. I'm gonna say that right off...
JORDAN RODGERS
I am a fan of Cam Newton. I love watching him play the game. He is an unbelievable talent: throwing ...
JORDAN RODGERS
I'd like to be able to tap with my action this low without buzzing.
STANLEY JORDAN
When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passiv...
HAMILTON JORDAN
We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
HAMILTON JORDAN
The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and ...
HAMILTON JORDAN
If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is w...
HAMILTON JORDAN
I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass...
HAMILTON JORDAN
Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it ...
HAMILTON JORDAN
My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people...
HAMILTON JORDAN
If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an...
HAMILTON JORDAN
If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, give...
HAMILTON JORDAN
And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these opti...
HAMILTON JORDAN
The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination proc...
HAMILTON JORDAN
You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he r...
HAMILTON JORDAN
We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to ...
HAMILTON JORDAN
It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. ...
HAMILTON JORDAN
I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a polit...
HAMILTON JORDAN
I like Kahlua and ice cream as a dessert.
HAMILTON JORDAN
Writing for Mills and Boon taught me a lot of discipline. You have to produce books in a short time ...
PENNY JORDAN
I was still an avid reader of Mills & Boon romances - on publication day, I used to rush out of ...
PENNY JORDAN
One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but aliv...
ROBERT JORDAN
If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.
ROBERT JORDAN
Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s noth...
ROBERT JORDAN
Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men for...
ROBERT JORDAN
Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.
ROBERT JORDAN
Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as ...
JORDAN BELFORT
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as...
JORDAN BELFORT
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not ...
JUNE JORDAN
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke...
JUNE JORDAN