We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.
BARNEY FRANKIt is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
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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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They have to convert our agenda into something aggressive. Two guys wanting to be happy together are invading their marriages. Helping a kid who’s getting beaten up in school is promoting homosexuality. If you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn’t know how to promote homosexuality.
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The rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question is the process to determine whether they’ve done the terrible things.
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The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
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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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I don’t think Donald Trump is the right person because I very much disagree with him.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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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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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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Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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