If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.
ALAN KOOI SIMPSONAn 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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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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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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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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He’s a million rubber bands in his resilience.
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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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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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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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Grandchildren now don’t write a thank you for the Christmas presents.
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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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I think it is embarrassing to all of us who truly know the mission of the Refugee Act.
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The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.
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Every 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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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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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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