The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
ALAN KOOI SIMPSONIt says little about the person. Our differences and prejudices pale next to our historic challenge.
More Alan Kooi Simpson Quotes
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I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. I’m an Alan Simpson Republican.
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There is no “slippery slope” toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
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Here is what she said, ‘I believe the truth is that we have no strong causal link between IRCA and discrimination.
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A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.
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Grandchildren now don’t write a thank you for the Christmas presents.
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It doesn’t matter is you call it ‘Obama-care’ or ‘Elvis Presley care’ or ‘I-don’t-care care.’ It cannot sustain itself in its present form.
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If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.
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Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
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People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal.
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And I have come to realize that “gay” is an artificial category when it comes to measuring a man or woman’s on-the-job performance or commitment to shared goals.
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I think it is embarrassing to all of us who truly know the mission of the Refugee Act.
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So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary expenses.
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Let us stop skewing the whole process by taking some folks who are not truly refugees in order simply to meet our foreign policy needs or domestic policy demands.
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We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party.
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And in [my] view it is just as likely that the discrimination we found has always been there, or that it is spurious, as that IRCA has caused it.’
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