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I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.
- Edward Brooke
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#Life
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When most presidents get in, they move to the center because they realize that this is a centrist country - even Reagan.
- Edward Brooke
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#Get
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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
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#Belief
#Campaign
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#People
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.
- Edward Brooke
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You can't say the Negro left the Republican Party; the Negro feels he was evicted from the Republican Party.
- Edward Brooke
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#Left
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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.
- Edward Brooke
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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
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#Religion
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
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#Did
#Happen
#Something
I wanted to go to Washington to bring people together who had never been together before. I wanted to break down the barriers between races.
- Edward Brooke
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#Go
#Never
#People
#Together
I was entirely comfortable reaching across the Senate aisle to work with Democrats.
- Edward Brooke
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I had made my reputation on integrity.
- Edward Brooke
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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.
- Edward Brooke
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#Politics
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.
- Edward Brooke
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#General
#Power Corrupts
#Power
The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.
- Edward Brooke
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#New
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#Politics
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Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.
- Edward Brooke
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