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I should have voted for the first Iraq war. George Bush did that one very well. I had been skeptical. I was afraid that George Bush was going to treat the first Iraq war the way his son treated the second.

Barney Frank

What’s troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
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Delay Ethics Republican
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
But here too it should be noted that the President’s approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
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Firsts Government President
Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.
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Affected Grant People Policy Public
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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Children People Thinking
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
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Entitled Innocence People Presumption
There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.
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Maintaining People Sex
I should have voted for the first Iraq war. George Bush did that one very well. I had been skeptical. I was afraid that George Bush was going to treat the first Iraq war the way his son treated the second.
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Afraid Country People Person Son War
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
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
NATO was a wonderful idea. It was formed in 1949. We are as far away from NATO as NATO was when it was done in time from the presidency of Grover Cleveland.
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Cleveland Done Ideas
Nothing in the world is as mobile as capital. It can move anywhere in the world instantaneously.
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Mobile Moving World
I am not aware of any specific provision that mandates any tightening of lending to small business other than a requirement that people who lend and then sell that loan be prepared to take a part of the risk. And I’m proud of that.
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People Proud Risk
I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people’s rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.
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Army Rights Thinking
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
Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
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Doctors Marijuana Medicine Practice
Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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Country Kings Worship
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 have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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Home Income Low Ownership
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
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 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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Giving Groups People
But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don’t say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don’t like about what Republicans are saying.
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People Say Anything Thinking
Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
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Congress Political School
Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
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Believe People Unicorn
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

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