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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I don’t think Donald Trump is the right person because I very much disagree with him.
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It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
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There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.
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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there’s no hierarchy.
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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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I have this fear that one day there’s going to be a fire in the Senate and there are only going to be 57 senators there and they’ll all die because they won’t have 60 votes to allow themselves to leave the building.
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What’s troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
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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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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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Ronald Reagan got a lot of democrats. I wish he hadn`t. I got to Congress with Reagan coming to the Whitehouse. The Reagan Program, a very radical one, a very drastic one passed because he had a lot of democrats. He worked at it personally and also because Reagan retained a popularity.
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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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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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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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