I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.
BARNEY FRANKRonald Reagan got a lot of democrats. I wish he hadn`t. I got to Congress with Reagan coming to the Whitehouse. The Reagan Program, a very radical one, a very drastic one passed because he had a lot of democrats. He worked at it personally and also because Reagan retained a popularity.
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They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won’t be able to be outraged anymore.
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There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any difference,” Frank said. “It’s the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. … The bumper sticker I’m going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, ‘We’re not perfect, but they’re nuts.’
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Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight
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We don’t get ourselves dry cleaned.
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I don’t think Donald Trump is the right person because I very much disagree with him.
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I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.
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In a free society, a large degree of human activity is none of the government’s business. We should make criminal what’s going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.
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I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?
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Donald Trump has done more for getting people to understand the importance of public policy that respond to public needs in an affirmative way than anything we could have done on our own.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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The fact that theyre a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that its National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.
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Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
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Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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