"I wouldn't want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court."
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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 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 public is ready now for a safety net for the middle class, something not just for the poor, but for everyone who will need help, from time to time, in order to own a home, educate their kids, keep themselves healthy or have something to retire on."
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"We don't get ourselves dry cleaned."
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"In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms."
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"We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value."
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"Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy."
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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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"Ridicule is about the most powerful weapon possible."
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"Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so."
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"Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship."
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"And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians."
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"There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing."
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"Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots."
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"Going before an audience of people who expect you to be funny is tough. Going before an audience that expect you to be boring, and then being a little funny, is much easier. I prefer easier."
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"In the West everybody recognizes the need for a private sector, pretty much, even the one Socialist group understands this now, and so there tends to be debate about how much public sector intervention you think is needed for a variety of reasons, and there are very important differences on party lines that should be fought out."
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"The people who started the American government, the founders of the Constitution, didn't like political parties but they were forced to start them. Nobody ever created political parties in England, they evolved. And there do tend to be two general tendencies that focus around how much government you think you need."
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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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"Ronald Reagan got a lot of democrats. I wish he hadn`t. I got to Congress with Reagan coming to the Whitehouse. The Reagan Program, a very radical one, a very drastic one passed because he had a lot of democrats. He worked at it personally and also because Reagan retained a popularity."
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