While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
BARNEY FRANKLet us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
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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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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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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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The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left’s on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
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I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people’s rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.
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I will tell you, I’m a lousy cook, but I think I’m a pretty good judge of a good meal.
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I don’t think Donald Trump is the right person because I very much disagree with him.
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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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There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.
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Disruption never helps your cause. … It just looks like you’re afraid to have rational discussion.
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I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?
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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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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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Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
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