As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.


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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSON
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
JESSE JACKSON
Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and be...
JESSE JACKSON
To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT. We must respect the rights and properties of our fel...
JESSE OWENS
Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed...
JESSE SCHELL
I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play...
JESSE STONE
In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.
JESSE EISENBERG
What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent y...
JESSE JACKSON
I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public s...
JESSE WILLIAMS
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; swe...
JESSE JACKSON
To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn't say anything...
JESSE BALL
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
JESSE JACKSON
Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down...
JESSE JACKSON
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
JESSE JACKSON
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but goo...
JESSE JACKSON
In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
JESSE JACKSON
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a d...
JESSE JACKSON
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
JESSE JACKSON
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
JESSE JACKSON
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature...
JESSE JACKSON
When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-det...
JESSE JACKSON
Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.
JESSE JACKSON
Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy...
JESSE JACKSON
While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.
JESSE JACKSON
I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.
JESSE MCCARTNEY
Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Alm...
JESSE STONE
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
JESSE JACKSON
In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in ...
JESSE JACKSON
To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, blac...
JESSE JACKSON
For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
JESSE OWENS
If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.
JESSE OWENS
Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.
JESSE OWENS
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
JESSE OWENS
The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
JESSE OWENS
Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to...
JESSE OWENS
I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ...
JESSE OWENS
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
JESSE OWENS
Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.
JESSE OWENS
If this were a video game, you could just break everything in this room and a bunch of money would c...
JESSE ANDREWS
And if a jock. God forbid, witnesses you hobnobbing with theater kids, he will immediately assume yo...
JESSE ANDREWS
Mom was asking me to resume a friendship that had no honest foundation and ended on screamingly awkw...
JESSE ANDREWS
this book probably makes it seem as if I hate myself and everything I do. I mostly just hate every p...
JESSE ANDREWS
When girls see two Unattractives dating, they think, 'Hey! Love is possible even for unattractive pe...
JESSE ANDREWS
I am the Thomas Edison of conversational stupidity.
JESSE ANDREWS
So in order to understand everything that happened, you have to start from the premise that high sch...
JESSE ANDREWS