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"I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage."
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"Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction."
"To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a 'righteous' form of prostitution."
"We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration."
"I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents."
"Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us."
"When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not been mistaken. He had gone wrong only in assuming that marriage, by itself, gave him either power or title to appropriate that freshness. As he now saw, one might as well have thought one could buy a sunset by buying the field from which one had seen it."
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"Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy."
"We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills."
"If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe."
"The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future."
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