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" And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians. "
Too Much
Politicians
Think
" As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something. "
Good
I Am
Liberal
" Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them. "
People
Learning
Experience
" But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade. "
Surrender
Here
First
" But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency. "
Healthy
Policy
Efficiency
" But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying. "
Attention
Me
People
" But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered. "
Decisions
Poor
Others
" 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. "
Decisions
Perspective
Power
" Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically. "
Level
Action
Community
" 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. "
People
Poor
Who
" 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. "
People
Serious
Think
" 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. "
People
Say
Work
" I'm antisocial - there's no question about it. "
Antisocial
No Question
Question
" 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. "
Result
Problem
Decisions
" In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists. "
View
Decisions
Great
" I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children. "
Think
Deep
People
" It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential. "
Political
Problem
Fight
" It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people. "
Same
Politicians
People
" I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal. "
Meal
You
Judge
" 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. "
Doctor
Medicine
Practice
" Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship. "
Said
Worship
True
" Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans. "
Disagree
Now
Time
" Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion. "
Television
Enemy
Nuance
" 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. "
Talk
Internet
Ambition
" 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. "
System
Expensive
Boot
" What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. "
American
History
People
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