There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.
BARNEY FRANKThere is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.
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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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I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
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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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What’s troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
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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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Bush senior used to say that we have more will than wallet. So he urged the country to attack poverty with a thousand points of light, none of which could be eaten.
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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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And unless you think there is a serious chance you’re going to jail, don’t listen to your lawyer.
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We don’t get ourselves dry cleaned.
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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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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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There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.
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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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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there’s no hierarchy.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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