I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people’s rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.
BARNEY FRANKIncreasing 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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I don’t think Donald Trump is the right person because I very much disagree with him.
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If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of discipline to pour it on him. I would do it, but I’d hate myself in the morning.
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Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn’t have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
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We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.
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But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects – that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. – some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
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[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.
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The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
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The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.
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Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.
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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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For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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