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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.

Barney Frank

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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Community Effort Law
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

Afraid Country People Person Son War
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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Government Hurt People
Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.
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Congress Political School
If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don’t hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
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People Serious Thinking Violation
There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to intervene everywhere, that I think makes no sense.
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Degree Foreign Policy Thinking
In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
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Country Democrats Staggered
There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.
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Maintaining People Sex
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
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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Ambition Essentials Reality
A leader can`t move a country that`s not ready. You can`t make the waves, but when you see them coming, you can help direct them.
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Country Leader Moving
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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Doe Long Yield
For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
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Effort People Programs Welfare
We don’t get ourselves dry cleaned.
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Clean Dry Ourselves
Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns.
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Believe People Unicorn
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

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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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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