What’s troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
BARNEY FRANKI believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?
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Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
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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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NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done in time from the presidency of Grover Cleveland.
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I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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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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Nothing in the world is as mobile as capital. It can move anywhere in the world instantaneously.
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If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don’t hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
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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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I have this fear that one day there’s going to be a fire in the Senate and there are only going to be 57 senators there and they’ll all die because they won’t have 60 votes to allow themselves to leave the building.
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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there’s no hierarchy.
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Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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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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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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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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