Francine Busby Quotes

Liberty and equality ... will best be attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

A democracy ... requires groups that assert all of society's interests, not just those of a small group.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another. Offices were not established to give support to particular men at the public expense

Well, I will be a president for Democrats, Republicans and independents, for the struggling, the striving, the successful, for all those who vote for me and for those who don't. For all Americans together.

We've got to be able to get to a point where we represent everybody equally.

I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.

After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.

Congress, even with its frustrations, is the greatest instrument for justice and human welfare in the world.

I don't care what party you belong to or what your background is. If you believe we are headed in the wrong direction, and believe there needs to be a check and balance on the President and Congress, then join my campaign.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people.

It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.

The essence of good government is trust.

The people want government that works for them at every level.

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

Our laws to be wholesome need not be enacted in a palace.

I believe that every member [of Congress] ought to be equal in fact, no less than in theory.

This democracy is shaped by equality of opportunity.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

We don’t trust government, but we need government….Government didn’t land here from Mars. We elected them.