Quotes from Terry Sanford

No group of our citizens can be denied the right to participate in the opportunities of first-class citizenship.

I've been ostracized before in legislative bodies for voting against the majority. That doesn't bother me.

There is a hotline that runs from the college students to their high school buddies.

We have observed all kinds of things, including Cucumber Day. There was a Honeybee Week.

Had there not been these safety valves of political parties and elections, we may very well have had no way to change except forceful overthrow of government.

A great many of us have been concerned about the presidential nomination system... whether or not we have drifted into a system that simply doesn't work so well any more.

We just want to make sure the best candidates get the attention they deserve.

Dukakis ran without understanding that there was a Democratic Party out in the land, and he never did call on it.

I'd have supported Al Gore if he'd have been from Wisconsin.

The drafters of the Constitution... wisely put restraints on the president.

I'm proud to be an Albert Gore Democrat.

We are tired of having our integrity impugned. We are tired of having our sincerity questioned. We are tired of having our intelligence insulted.

Senators, in the end, must be elected.

Congressional intervention and the availability of intervention demonstrably offset agency indifference; are a guard against arbitrary, improper, and illegal bureaucratic decisions; and provide the power of public pressure to require the nonelected official to be responsive.

I have no obligation to deal with slime.

I doubt the people of North Carolina will be content to allow the governor to decide or even unduly influence selecting their senator.

North Carolina is not going to be left behind.

We have accomplished our mission of stopping Iraq's drive to take over Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Middle East. We should begin to reduce our forces in Saudi Arabia, ever so slowly, and look to a more multinational force to keep the peace.

I take very seriously our responsibility to keep a strong economy.

Needed reform of the nominating procedures has been thwarted by the individual vested interests of the DNC members in maintaining the maze of primaries and caucuses.