I will tell you, I’m a lousy cook, but I think I’m a pretty good judge of a good meal.
BARNEY FRANKThere is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.
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We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.
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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there’s no hierarchy.
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Let 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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We don’t get ourselves dry cleaned.
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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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I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
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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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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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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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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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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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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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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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Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn’t have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.
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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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