American - Politician | December 15, 1959 -
A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.
Donna Brazile
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If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.
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Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.
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Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.
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Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.
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We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race.
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I grew up within New Orleans; my greatest concern is rising water. But I think life is a process of moving items from the 'scared of' to the 'not scared of' list.
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I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.
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Every member of my family was displaced by Katrina.
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George W. Bush was good as his word. He visited the Gulf states 17 times; went 13 times to New Orleans. Laura Bush made 24 trips. Bush saw that $126 billion in aid was sent to the Gulf's residents, as some members of his own party in Congress balked.
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On every show that I have been on, I have played myself.
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If a critic doesn't think I can act, it's because I'm not acting. That's me - and that's the way I act.
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