It says little about the person. Our differences and prejudices pale next to our historic challenge.
ALAN KOOI SIMPSONThe debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.
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Now it’s just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, ‘What are you doing for your country?’ you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.
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We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party.
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The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
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Reagan didn’t put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.
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I think it is embarrassing to all of us who truly know the mission of the Refugee Act.
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In your country club, your church, and business, about fifteen percent of the people are screwballs, lightweights, and boobs, and you would not want those people unrepresented in Congress.
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And I have come to realize that “gay” is an artificial category when it comes to measuring a man or woman’s on-the-job performance or commitment to shared goals.
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It doesn’t matter is you call it ‘Obama-care’ or ‘Elvis Presley care’ or ‘I-don’t-care care.’ It cannot sustain itself in its present form.
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There has to be a better way to meet those needs and demands than we are doing now.
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Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.
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Let us stop skewing the whole process by taking some folks who are not truly refugees in order simply to meet our foreign policy needs or domestic policy demands.
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And in [my] view it is just as likely that the discrimination we found has always been there, or that it is spurious, as that IRCA has caused it.’
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If you torture statistics long enough, they’ll eventually confess the truth
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I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don’t believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.
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There are three days that are really slow for restaurants – Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.
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