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Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.

Barney Frank

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.
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Children People Thinking
I don’t think Donald Trump is the right person because I very much disagree with him.
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Persons Thinking Trump
[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.
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Government Roles Trying
Disruption never helps your cause. … It just looks like you’re afraid to have rational discussion.
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Causes Helping Looks
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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Government Hurt People
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
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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Afraid Country People Person Son War
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 best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.
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Humor Opponents Stupidity
Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
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Congress Political School
Nothing in the world is as mobile as capital. It can move anywhere in the world instantaneously.
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Mobile Moving World
Going before an audience of people who expect you to be funny is tough. Going before an audience that expect you to be boring, and then being a little funny, is much easier. I prefer easier.
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Littles People Tough
Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
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People Political Two
I wouldn’t want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court.
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Country Gay People United States
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
Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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Believe Birth Government

Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.

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