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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Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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Disruption never helps your cause. … It just looks like you’re afraid to have rational discussion.
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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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I’m used to being in the minority. I’m a left-handed, gay Jew. I’ve never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who’s getting beaten up in school is promoting homosexuality. If you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn’t know how to promote homosexuality.
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The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.
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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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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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It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
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What’s troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
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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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I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
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Nothing in the world is as mobile as capital. It can move anywhere in the world instantaneously.
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NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done in time from the presidency of Grover Cleveland.
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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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