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Enough is enough! ... How many homes can you own?
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The business model of Wall Street is fraud. In my view, there is no better example than the recently-exposed illegal behavior at Wells Fargo.
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At the insistence of the Bush administration, Congress in 2006 passed legislation that required the Postal Service to prefund, over a 10-year period, 75 years of future retiree health benefits.
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I don't consider myself a pariah.
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In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing whether or not they are eating food which contains genetically engineered ingredients. In the United States, we don't.
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I think the American people in many cases want to transform our energy system.
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Let's be honest, dental care in America is extremely expensive, period.
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Finland is no utopia.
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Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history.
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In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.
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Most of us have not heard about Master Limited Partnerships. These special financing arrangements allow oil and gas investors to avoid paying certain corporate income taxes, but are not available to clean energy businesses.
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I'm not that much of a socialist compared to Eisenhower.
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While commentators on Fox and right-wing radio have the backing of Rupert Murdoch, a major Republican contributor, and other conservative corporations, progressives understand that their position is extremely vulnerable.
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Billionaires and Wall Street should not be buying elections.
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The Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers.
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Private insurance companies in America are reaping huge profits.
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Health care in Denmark is universal, free of charge and high quality. Everybody is covered as a right of citizenship.
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Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.
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Even the alternative weekly newspapers, traditionally a bastion of progressive thought and analysis, have been bought by a monopoly franchise and made a predictable shift to the right in their coverage of local news.
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When a mother goes to the store and purchases food for her child, she has the right to know what she is feeding her family.
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If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.
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The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.
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I have seven beautiful grandchildren, four of whom are girls.
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I see a future where getting to work or to school or to the store does not have to cause pollution.