Nothing in the world is as mobile as capital. It can move anywhere in the world instantaneously.
BARNEY FRANKRonald Reagan got a lot of democrats. I wish he hadn`t. I got to Congress with Reagan coming to the Whitehouse. The Reagan Program, a very radical one, a very drastic one passed because he had a lot of democrats. He worked at it personally and also because Reagan retained a popularity.
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I think there were two criticisms you can make of Donald Trump’s involvement in the Health Care Bill. First of all, there were times when he wasn’t being helpful. Secondly, there were times when he was trying to be helpful. I’m not sure which one did more damage.
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[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.
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Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.
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Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
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They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won’t be able to be outraged anymore.
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What’s troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
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In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view.
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Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it’s expensive to boot.
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They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who’s getting beaten up in school is promoting homosexuality. If you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn’t know how to promote homosexuality.
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There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.
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There were a lot of Romneys. There’s the Romney who was going to be better on gay rights than Ted Kennedy; now there’s a Romney who checks with Rick Santorum on that issue.
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And unless you think there is a serious chance you’re going to jail, don’t listen to your lawyer.
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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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