Barbara Jordan

If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.