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.
BARNEY FRANKI don’t think Donald Trump is the right person because I very much disagree with him.
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I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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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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The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.
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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there’s no hierarchy.
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Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
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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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The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
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I do not believe that the federal government should treat adults who choose to smoke marijuana as criminals.
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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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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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In a free society, a large degree of human activity is none of the government’s business. We should make criminal what’s going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.
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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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I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?
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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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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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