American - Politician | October 26, 1919 - January 3, 2015
I grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything.
Edward Brooke
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I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.
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President Nixon has lost his effectiveness as the leader of this country, primarily because he has lost the confidence of the people.
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Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.
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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.
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In my state, the Republican Party was the most progressive party.
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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.
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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.
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I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Republican, as was my mother, in Virginia.
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I had male breast cancer and had dual radical modified mastectomy, and I've spent a lot of time working with the Susan G. Komen foundation to make men aware of male breast cancer - if you have breast tissue, you can have breast cancer.
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I don't intend to leave the Republican Party, but I would like to move the Republican Party more to the center.
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Fred Thompson was a law partner of mine.
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