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.
ALAN KOOI SIMPSONEvery time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we’re a nation of immigrants and all of that.
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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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I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don’t believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.
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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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I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans.
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Nonetheless, GAO’s conclusion that employer sanctions had somehow caused employment discrimination was contradicted by GAO’s own Chief of Methodology, who criticized the GAO report.
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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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I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. I’m an Alan Simpson Republican.
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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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There are three days that are really slow for restaurants – Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.
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Now it’s just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, ‘What are you doing for your country?’ you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.
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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.
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Grandchildren now don’t write a thank you for the Christmas presents.
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Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.
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He’s a million rubber bands in his resilience.
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If you torture statistics long enough, they’ll eventually confess the truth
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