Millicent Fenwick Quotes
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
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We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.
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I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.
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The business of government is justice.
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You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.
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Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.
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Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.
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In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests... . What, after all, would…
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You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrannical force, the…
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When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.
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Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who…
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The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.
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