Ronald 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.
BARNEY FRANKThey 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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I am not aware of any specific provision that mandates any tightening of lending to small business other than a requirement that people who lend and then sell that loan be prepared to take a part of the risk. And I’m proud of that.
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The public is ready now for a safety net for the middle class, something not just for the poor, but for everyone who will need help, from time to time, in order to own a home, educate their kids, keep themselves healthy or have something to retire on.
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I will tell you, I’m a lousy cook, but I think I’m a pretty good judge of a good meal.
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There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.
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When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate…because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.
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I have this fear that one day there’s going to be a fire in the Senate and there are only going to be 57 senators there and they’ll all die because they won’t have 60 votes to allow themselves to leave the building.
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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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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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The best antidote to prejudice is reality.
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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 best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.
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Disruption never helps your cause. … It just looks like you’re afraid to have rational discussion.
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If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don’t hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
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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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Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
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