Quotes by Eddie Bernice Johnson

About Eddie Bernice Johnson:

Eddie Bernice Johnson is a politician from the state of Texas, currently representing the state's 30th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. An African-American, she is the first registered nurse elected to the U.S. Congress.
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Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

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As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it.

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Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.

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I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

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Author Bio

  • NameEddie Bernice Johnson
  • DescriptionAmerican politician
  • BornDecember 3, 1935
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician; Nurse