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.
ALAN KOOI SIMPSONIf you torture statistics long enough, they’ll eventually confess the truth
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I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans.
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Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.
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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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If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.
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So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary expenses.
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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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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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He’s a million rubber bands in his resilience.
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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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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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Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we’re a nation of immigrants and all of that.
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If you torture statistics long enough, they’ll eventually confess the truth
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Here is what she said, ‘I believe the truth is that we have no strong causal link between IRCA and discrimination.
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The 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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