Douglas Wilder Quotes

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service. - Douglas Wilder

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough? - Douglas Wilder

The force I represent is Virginia's New Mainstream. It looks forward, not backwards. It tries to unify people, not divide them. - Douglas Wilder

Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy. - Douglas Wilder

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious. - Douglas Wilder

Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age. - Douglas Wilder

Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America. - Douglas Wilder

My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be. - Douglas Wilder

Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president. - Douglas Wilder

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