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.
BARNEY FRANKAnd unless you think there is a serious chance you’re going to jail, don’t listen to your lawyer.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
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I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed – for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late ’50s, early ’60s – that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
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Nothing in the world is as mobile as capital. It can move anywhere in the world instantaneously.
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Donald Trump has done more for getting people to understand the importance of public policy that respond to public needs in an affirmative way than anything we could have done on our own.
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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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Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.
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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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There were a lot of Romneys. There’s the Romney who was going to be better on gay rights than Ted Kennedy; now there’s a Romney who checks with Rick Santorum on that issue.
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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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When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate…because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.
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We don’t get ourselves dry cleaned.
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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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These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.
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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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