Immigrants have faced huge ...

Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.
Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.
 Charles Rangel

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
 Herb Kelleher
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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I was motivated to join in large part because my family needed the money. I would like to say how patriotic we were, but really what motivated me was the excitement my mother would get in receiving a check for my older brother.
 Charles Rangel
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
 Charles Rangel
We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.
 Charles Rangel
If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.
 Charles Rangel
From a high-tech point of view, an agriculture point of view, a goods-and-services point of view, a great deal of [committee Democrats] have no choice except to support allowing America access to these markets.
 Charles Rangel