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I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
Donna Brazile
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Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.
Donna Brazile
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Be the buffalo. Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee nation, once told me how the cow runs away from the storm while the buffalo charges directly toward it—and gets through it quicker. Whenever I'm confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment. I become the buffalo.
Donna Brazile
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The smoking gun is that we're interviewing somebody who is involved in a cybercrime and not calling him a criminal.
Donna Brazile
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Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy. They'd rather take pictures with black children than feed them.
Donna Brazile
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Why you? Because there is no one better.
Why now? Because tomorrow isn't soon enough.
Donna Brazile
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If everyone likes you, it probably means you aren't saying much.
Donna Brazile
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A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.
Donna Brazile
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We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.
Donna Brazile
10.
Isn't horrible weather great? It means I don't have to wash my car!
Donna Brazile
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We are victims of - the DNC and other institutions are victims of a cybercrime led by thugs.
Donna Brazile
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Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.
Donna Brazile
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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.
Donna Brazile
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There is a place in America for diversity of views and opinions. I may cook my gumbo differently from you, but that does not make mine better. I may just use different ingredients. Politics has gotten so spicy, and we need to cool it down some. We may find that your recipe for gumbo is just as good.
Donna Brazile
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I inspired a new generation in the same way the previous generation inspired me. I believe that our democracy itself is very inspiring.
Donna Brazile
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I you don't value your time, no one else will.
Donna Brazile
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I think they [Hillary and Bill Clinton] have been - they have shown over and over again that they're willing to be transparent and that they have gone beyond the letter of the law, to show that they're trying to make sure there are bright red, green, purple lines that will separate them from any type of conflict.
Donna Brazile
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When I look around me, I can't help having faith.
Donna Brazile
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Every member of my family was displaced by Katrina.
Donna Brazile
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We didn't know what was coming next. And, you know, this is not just about computers; this is harassment of individuals, it's harassment of our candidates, harassment of our donors. We had stolen information, personal information. People were personally harassed.
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.
Donna Brazile
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Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.
Donna Brazile
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I've been a government official. I've been dealing with another situation, another e-mail situation. The DNC was the victim of a cybercrime, an attack. And that has been my focus, not the focus of another round of e-mail controversies.
Donna Brazile
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There's no question that Donald Trump has had ample opportunity to distance himself from the kind of racist language that comes from some of his supporters.
Donna Brazile
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Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.
Donna Brazile
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The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.
Donna Brazile
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It's almost like a renaissance of racism we have.
Donna Brazile
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No one is demonizing or even saying anything as intemperate as Donald Trump has said about blacks living in squalor conditions.
Donna Brazile
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Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.
Donna Brazile
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We put up the very best cyber security - what I call infrastructure to stop them, but [hackers] constantly [didn't stop].
Donna Brazile
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I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave me my first job in politics.
Donna Brazile
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We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.
Donna Brazile
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Just got off the phone with my health care provider asking them to explain why my premium jumped up. No good answer!
Donna Brazile
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Was that Donna Brazile, a CNN analyst, or a [Hillary] Clinton partisan? Two batches of emails posted by WikiLeaks show Brazile gave Clinton advisers a heads up about questions the candidate might receive at CNN events during the primaries.
Donna Brazile
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People are human beings.If you are nice to me, than I am nice to you. I live by my mother's advice, which is that the Golden Rule is the way to go.
Donna Brazile
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CNN says it did not share its coverage materials with any candidate, party or campaign and says it was completely uncomfortable with [Donna] Brazile's involvement with the [Hillary] Clinton camp.
Donna Brazile
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[Donna] Brazil warned the campaign that [Hillary] Clinton might face a question over lead poisoning during a CNN primary debate, showing her partisan ties.
Donna Brazile
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I am disappointed that we went through this process. The country went through this process. I think it's the responsibility of the government to help individual citizens as well as institutions, non-profits, corporations, to protect us. To help protect us.
Donna Brazile
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We cannot excuse the fact that he [Donald Trump] is running for president. He's a frontrunner.
Donna Brazile
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I denounced Donald Trump for not denouncing the kind of vitriol, the kind of violence that he has perpetrated with his angry rhetoric. And he knows exactly what he's doing. This is not the Donald Trump who denounced David Duke in 1991. This is a guy who's now soaking up this hate and his spilling it back out.
Donna Brazile
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[Donna] Brazile had sent an email to a top [Hillary] Clinton aide the day before the town hall warning of just that question with almost the identical wording.
Donna Brazile
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While CNN has hired a fleet of new political reporters to beef up its coverage of these elections [2016], it also maintains a huge stable of paid pundits. [Donna] Brazile was on the air and the payroll at CNN while vice chairwoman of the party. She took an absence when she became chief.
Donna Brazile
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Trying to gin up political violence for its electoral utility is - I think inarguably what we're seeing here. And I know that the Donald Trump campaign will not say that is what they're doing.
Donna Brazile
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This is a woman [Hillary Clinton] who has shown over and over again in her career that she will elevate this conversation but, more importantly, she will get things done so all Americans can prosper and grow.
Donna Brazile
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Donald Trump has not gone to historical black colleges - Hillary Clinton. He's not met with the mothers of children who have been slain and killed from violence in the country as Hillary Clinton has done.
Donna Brazile
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I'm not here to talk about bigotry in the sense that I don't know what's in Donald Trump's heart. I hope that it's a heart of compassion.
Donna Brazile
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Trent Lott saved my family. I needed three things from him personally, and he came through for me. He made sure that the ice that we desperately needed was delivered. He got us ice, insulin and water. The food came as well. He put politics aside and made sure my family was ok. I will always thank him for that.
Donna Brazile
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We know from the company we hired, Kraus Stripe , that there was Russian involvement in this to destabilize not just our institution, the Democratic Party, but our democracy itself.
Donna Brazile
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We have taken appropriate steps to ensure that we have the safest possible system. We're working with federal officials.
Donna Brazile
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I can tell you about Hillary Clinton's heart. This is a woman, who, after law school, went down to my native South. She went down, after graduating from Yale Law School, to help poor kids, to help disabled kids.
Donna Brazile
