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Barney Frank

I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?
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Believe Country Good Thing
Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.
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Politics Powerful Weapons
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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Care Children Day Party
We don’t get ourselves dry cleaned.
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Clean Dry Ourselves
And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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Much Politician Thinking Too
NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done in time from the presidency of Grover Cleveland.
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Cleveland Done Ideas
For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
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Effort People Programs Welfare
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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Degree Foreign Policy Thinking
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
There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.
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Gay Groups Wings
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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Efficiency Healthy Produce
And unless you think there is a serious chance you’re going to jail, don’t listen to your lawyer.
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Jail Serious Thinking
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
Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
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Believe People Unicorn
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
Disruption never helps your cause. … It just looks like you’re afraid to have rational discussion.
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Causes Helping Looks

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