I smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.
BARNEY FRANKConservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.
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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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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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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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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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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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The best antidote to prejudice is reality.
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There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.
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If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of discipline to pour it on him. I would do it, but I’d hate myself in the morning.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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The fact that theyre a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that its National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.
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Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight
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Nothing in the world is as mobile as capital. It can move anywhere in the world instantaneously.
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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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