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.
BARNEY FRANKDisruption never helps your cause. … It just looks like you’re afraid to have rational discussion.
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Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
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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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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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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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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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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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There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.
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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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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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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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These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.
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I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people’s rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.
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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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And unless you think there is a serious chance you’re going to jail, don’t listen to your lawyer.
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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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