Preston Daniels Quotes
Keep it simple. Help individuals. That’s what we do.
Preston Daniels, Mayor, De Moines, Iowa (Democrat), Interview, CBS Sunday Morning, December 7, 2003
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Quoted by Jack Kemp in Senate Hearing, June 3, 1992
Normally, this would not be a particularly noteworthy quotation. However, at the time the Republican Party had shifted far to the right–more so than at any other time since its inception. The primary election he was in brought out the most right wing members of the party, which was for gutting the social safety net, did not see health care as a right, and even wanted to terminate Obamacare and Social Security as it existed. Yet when asked in a nationwide TV interview, what the government should do for the poor and destitute who could not afford health care or other necessities. His courageous answer and position doomed his bid for the presidential nomination.
Preston A. Daniels is an American politician who became the first African-American Mayor of Des Moines, Iowa.