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Barney Frank

If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don’t hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
BARNEY FRANK

People Serious Thinking Violation
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
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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Aquarium Community Fighting
Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
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Decision Perspective Power
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 do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.
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Believe Government Marijuana
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
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
Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.
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Giving Issues People
Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight
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Debate Fighting People
Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
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Believe People Unicorn
We don’t get ourselves dry cleaned.
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Clean Dry Ourselves
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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Able Outrage Outraged
Disruption never helps your cause. … It just looks like you’re afraid to have rational discussion.
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Causes Helping Looks
The public is ready now for a safety net for the middle class, something not just for the poor, but for everyone who will need help, from time to time, in order to own a home, educate their kids, keep themselves healthy or have something to retire on.
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Home Kids Order

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