Top 29 Quotes by Edward Brooke

When most presidents get in, they move to the center because they realize that this is a centrist country - even Reagan.

I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

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.

Fred Thompson was a law partner of mine.

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.

I was one of God's chosen few, no doubt about it. Not only being elected, but the joy and pleasure I derived from it. It was a wonderful life.

I was entirely comfortable reaching across the Senate aisle to work with Democrats.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

My fervent expectation is that sooner rather than later, the United States Senate will more closely reflect the rich diversity of this great country.