 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. |
| 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. |
| What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education. |
| And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians. |
| There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. |
| Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship. |
| 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. |
| They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore. |
| 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. |
| The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed. |
| 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. |
| Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
