I will tell you, I’m a lousy cook, but I think I’m a pretty good judge of a good meal.
BARNEY FRANKIn 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 smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.
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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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The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there’s no hierarchy.
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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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The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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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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I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?
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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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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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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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Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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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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But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
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