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 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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The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.
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Reagan didn’t put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.
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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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People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal.
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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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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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He’s a million rubber bands in his resilience.
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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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There has to be a better way to meet those needs and demands than we are doing now.
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If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.
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An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
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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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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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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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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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