Quotes by Donna Brazile

We can be thankful President Barack Obama is taking aim at one of the prime causes of climate change and extreme weather: air pollution. The EPAs carbon pollution standards are the most significant step forward our country has ever taken to protect our health by addressing climate change.

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. Theres something wrong with that.

Until there are no more hate crimes, no more vicious bullying and ugly slurs, whenever a person comes out - whether that person is a celebrity or a nobody - it should be celebrated like the triumph of courage it is.

Under Pope Francis, we have seen a change at the Vatican that is reflective of the church I know and love. He approaches controversial doctrine or past wrongdoing with humility, understanding, and faith in the goodness of mankind. He has served as a voice for the voiceless and has been working to re-establish the church as a home for the homeless.

People dont trust government, they dont trust Wall Street, they dont trust the church, they dont trust the media.

As a practicing Catholic all my life, my faith and the church are never far from my mind. The lessons I learned in the church have structured the way Ive approached my life and my career. They were lessons of grace, kindness, forgiveness, and compassion.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

I keep telling these millennials its all about them to get into politics and start making things happen. They dont care about whether or not someone is gay. They dont care to see contraception taken away or want to even discuss it. Theyre going forward, not backward.

The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit we the people. Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.

I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think.

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to disagree but do so in civility. If we let the politicians and those who report dictate our discourse, then our course will be dictated.

If youre a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest offices in the land out of the goodness of their heart and out of deference to your legal wisdom. You get a lifetime appointment, limitless prestige, a great office, and what I have to assume is a very comfortable chair.

Maya Angelou was the voice of three generations. Her poetry spanned our journey, chronicled our hearts and documented our struggles as we moved from the orations of Martin Luther King to the presidency of Barack Obama.

It takes but one person, one moment, one conviction, to start a ripple of change.

If youre a girl, youre always Daddys little girl. Youre vulnerable, no matter how worldly or sophisticated or strong youd become along the way. My dad Lionel let me know how proud he was, even as he kept me from being too big for my britches.

Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have evolved from real people like Sheriff Andy Taylor, Beavers dad Ward Cleaver and Heathcliff Cliff Huxtable, to cartoon dads like Homer Simpson and Seth MacFarlanes caricatures in American Dad! and Family Guy.