A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
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All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.
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The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
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We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.
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