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What’s troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

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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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Aquarium Community Fighting
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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Decision Perspective Power
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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People Proud Risk
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Entitled Innocence People Presumption
There were a lot of Romneys. There’s the Romney who was going to be better on gay rights than Ted Kennedy; now there’s a Romney who checks with Rick Santorum on that issue.
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Better Country Gay Rights
[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.
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The rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question is the process to determine whether they’ve done the terrible things.
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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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The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
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Country Stupidity War
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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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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Nothing in the world is as mobile as capital. It can move anywhere in the world instantaneously.
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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there’s no hierarchy.
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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 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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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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