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Barney Frank

What’s troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
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Delay Ethics Republican
I can tell you about health care and also about the financial reform bill. The Barack Obama, the President personally and his administration officials at his direction were very much involved.
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Care Financial President
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.
BARNEY FRANK

Funny Graduation Grateful Swim
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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Giving Groups People
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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Decision Etc Poor Subject Sugegst
And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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Much Politician Thinking Too
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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Government Hurt People
I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.
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Children People Thinking
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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Country Kings Worship
Going before an audience of people who expect you to be funny is tough. Going before an audience that expect you to be boring, and then being a little funny, is much easier. I prefer easier.
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Littles People Tough
For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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Dealing Eaten Life Stress
But here too it should be noted that the President’s approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
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Firsts Government President
Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots.
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Knots Republican Ties
For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
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Effort People Programs Welfare
I don’t think Donald Trump is the right person because I very much disagree with him.
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Persons Thinking Trump
I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?
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Believe Country Good Thing

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