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Barbara Jordan

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

Barbara Jordan

Government

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Barbara Jordan is saying that we need to find a middle ground between expecting the government to handle every problem and expecting it to stay completely out of people's lives. She believes the best approach is to carefully decide what the government should and should not do, rather than taking an extreme position.

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