#individual

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

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There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#american people #community #decision #executive #form

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort. ↗

— Michael Jordan

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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

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Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual. ↗

— Sue Kelly

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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort. ↗

— Jack Kemp

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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#affirmative #affirmative action #american #american idea #antithetical

The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country. ↗

— Edward Kennedy

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Most of the books that I've written have been focused on, sort of, the individual, and sort of, either a voice, a personal voice, or a kind of transforming event where they step forward to fight for something they value. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

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There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

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