This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it’s expensive to boot.
BARNEY FRANKI have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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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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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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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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Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.
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[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.
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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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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.
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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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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 smoke a cigar or two a day. I did have a brownie once. It made me sleepy.
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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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I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.
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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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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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