Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.
BARNEY FRANKThe 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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I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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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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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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The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.
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It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
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We don’t get ourselves dry cleaned.
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I should have voted for the first Iraq war. George Bush did that one very well. I had been skeptical. I was afraid that George Bush was going to treat the first Iraq war the way his son treated the second.
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Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.
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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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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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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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I don’t think Donald Trump is the right person because I very much disagree with him.
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[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.
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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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