Occupation: Former U.S. Representative Birth: March 31, 1940
And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians..
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 major….
I wouldn't want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current ….
Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship..
Can I say one other thing that`s very important? I`m indebted to Donald Trump for a long time, we`ve had this problem that people disliked government….
Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school..
In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses ….
Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the f….
There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing..
Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically..
Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight.
I should have voted for the first Iraq war. George Bush did that one very well. I had been skeptical. I was afraid that George Bush was going to trea….
I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even w….
Ronald Reagan got a lot of democrats. I wish he hadn`t. I got to Congress with Reagan coming to the Whitehouse. The Reagan Program, a very radical on….
Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the fact….
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence..
There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to intervene everywhere, that….
We were giving advice for the single-worst idea to come forward from a group that's been rife with them, it would be this: The idea is this: Let's ma….
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….
I do have things I would like to see adopted on behalf of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people: they include the right to marry the individu….
I think there were two criticisms you can make of Donald Trump`s involvement in the Health Care Bill. First of all, there were times when he wasn`t b….