Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
BARNEY FRANK
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I think there were two criticisms you can make of Donald Trump’s involvement in the Health Care Bill. First of all, there were times when he wasn’t being helpful. Secondly, there were times when he was trying to be helpful. I’m not sure which one did more damage.
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Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
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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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Disruption never helps your cause. … It just looks like you’re afraid to have rational discussion.
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Bush senior used to say that we have more will than wallet. So he urged the country to attack poverty with a thousand points of light, none of which could be eaten.
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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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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
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For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.
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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.
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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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The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
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Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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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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