"Disruption never helps your cause. ... It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion."
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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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"Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically."
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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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"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 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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"The best antidote to prejudice is reality."
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"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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"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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"There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any difference,” Frank said. “It’s the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. … The bumper sticker I’m going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, ‘We’re not perfect, but they’re nuts.’"
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"For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress."
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"I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental."
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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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"I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?"
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"The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity."
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"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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"Ronald Reagan believes in the free market like some people believe in unicorns."
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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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"[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government."
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"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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