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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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Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

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Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
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Political Two
Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.

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Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
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Congress Political
But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
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Efficiency Healthy
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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Financial President
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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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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Gay
Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

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Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.
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Issues
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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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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Son
In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view.

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In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view.
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Excess Views
Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.

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Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.
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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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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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Jobs Numbers Recovery
Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there’s no hierarchy.

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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there’s no hierarchy.
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Responsibility Together Working
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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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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Community
Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn’t have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.

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Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn’t have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.
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Political
And unless you think there is a serious chance you’re going to jail, don’t listen to your lawyer.

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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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Jail
The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

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The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
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The best antidote to prejudice is reality.

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The best antidote to prejudice is reality.
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Antidote

I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.

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