Harold Ford, Jr.
Harold Ford, Jr.
Harold Eugene Ford Jr.is an American politician who served five terms in the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party from Tennessee's 9th congressional district, centered in Memphis, from 1997 to 2007. He is the son of former Congressman Harold Ford Sr., who held the same seat for 22 years. In 2006, Ford had an unsuccessful bid for the US Senate seat vacated by retiring Bill Frist. He is a member of the Ford political...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 May 1970
CountryUnited States of America
Harold Ford, Jr. quotes about
If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.
Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.
I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.
I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year.
I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.