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Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.

Barney Frank

We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.
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Name Rudeness Values
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
The rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question is the process to determine whether they’ve done the terrible things.
BARNEY FRANK

Done People Rights
Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.
BARNEY FRANK

Politics Powerful Weapons
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
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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Party People Political
These two entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.
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Affordable Housing People Two
I’m used to being in the minority. I’m a left-handed, gay Jew. I’ve never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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Gay Hand Left Majority
It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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People Politician Use
It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
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Party Taken Yale
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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Judging Meal Thinking
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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Country Leader Moving
I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.
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Believe Government Marijuana
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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Believe Media Party
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Entitled Innocence People Presumption
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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Country Decision Receiving

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