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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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"The world is not going to be saved by legislation."
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"As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law."
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"Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great."
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"Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with specific individuals, corporations, institutions, and so forth, as distinguished from public bills which deal with classes only."
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"I'll sign anything except bad legislation."
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"Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact."
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"Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests."
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"Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt."
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"The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself."
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"The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority."
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"Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans."
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"What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process."
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"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."
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"People are entitled to the presumption of innocence."
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