The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
BARNEY FRANKThe 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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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.
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Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
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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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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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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.
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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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There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.
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There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any difference,” Frank said. “It’s the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. … The bumper sticker I’m going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, ‘We’re not perfect, but they’re nuts.’
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In a free society, a large degree of human activity is none of the government’s business. We should make criminal what’s going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.
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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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I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to intervene everywhere, that I think makes no sense.
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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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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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