"Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities."

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Jared Polis

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“In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as burning a flag in an American Legion hall.”
“We (atheists) act in good conscience because we believe in moral principles, not because we expect a reward in Heaven.”
“Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.”
“I was the fifth child in a family of six, five boys and one girl. Bless that poor girl. We were very poor; it was the 30s. We survived off of the food and the little work that my father could get working on the roads or whatever the WPA provided. We were always in line to get food. The survival of our family really depended on the survival of the other black families in that community. We had that village aspect about us, that African sense about us. We always shared what we had with each other. We were able to make it because there was really a total family, a village.”

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“The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.”
“I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.”
“I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.”
“The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.”

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