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"I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well."
"If our country is to reach a workable solution to the abortion issue, the Democratic party must be open to and tolerant of opposing views."
"I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus."
"In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion."
"But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion."
Explore more quotes by Stanley Fish
"It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories."
"It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are."
"Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved."
"I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me."
"We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn."
"In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective."
"Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply."
"I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact."
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