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What’s troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

Barney Frank

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
There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any difference,” Frank said. “It’s the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. … The bumper sticker I’m going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, ‘We’re not perfect, but they’re nuts.’
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Party War Years
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
The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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Care Children Day Party
I think there were two criticisms you can make of Donald Trump’s involvement in the Health Care Bill. First of all, there were times when he wasn’t being helpful. Secondly, there were times when he was trying to be helpful. I’m not sure which one did more damage.
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Criticism Thinking Trying
Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots.
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Knots Republican Ties
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
And unless you think there is a serious chance you’re going to jail, don’t listen to your lawyer.
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Jail Serious Thinking
The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
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Country Stupidity War
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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Popularity Program Wish
But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects – that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. – some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
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Decision Etc Poor Subject Sugegst
Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
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Lawyer Reputation Sacrifice
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Entitled Innocence People Presumption
The best antidote to prejudice is reality.
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Antidote Prejudice Reality
For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.
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College Expression President
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
The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left’s on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
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Ambition Essentials Reality
And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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Much Politician Thinking Too
Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
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Believe Media Party
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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Judging Meal Thinking
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
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
For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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Dealing Eaten Life Stress
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
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
Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there’s no hierarchy.
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Hierarchy Responsibility Together Working
Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible.
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Politics Powerful Weapons

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