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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.

Barney Frank

In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
BARNEY FRANK

Country Democrats Staggered
The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.
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Gay Rights Writing
I’m used to being in the minority. I’m a left-handed, gay Jew. I’ve never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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Gay Hand Left Majority
The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.
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Humor Opponents Stupidity
The fact that theyre a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that its National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.
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Giving Groups People
Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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Country Kings Worship
Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
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Believe Media Party
Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.
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Affected Grant People Policy Public
We don’t get ourselves dry cleaned.
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Clean Dry Ourselves
Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.
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Politics Powerful Weapons
But here too it should be noted that the President’s approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
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Firsts Government President
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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Kids School Two
I should have voted for the first Iraq war. George Bush did that one very well. I had been skeptical. I was afraid that George Bush was going to treat the first Iraq war the way his son treated the second.
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Afraid Country People Person Son War
Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
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Decision Perspective Power
A leader can`t move a country that`s not ready. You can`t make the waves, but when you see them coming, you can help direct them.
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Country Leader Moving
The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it’s that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.
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Issues Moral Spheres

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