“But a bomb planted by a Marxist revolutionary – well, that’s just merely a tragic excess of idealism.”
“Democrats have gone further and further and further to the left with no end in sight.”
“The fact is that she agrees with them from a policy standpoint, even if she doesn't couch herself in the same title of socialist.”
“A bomb planted by a neo-Nazi group was a nefarious and murderous act of evil.”
“New Yorkers deserve the choice to endure less suffering, not by shortening their lives, but by shortening their deaths.”
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On the recordMarch 21, 2012
I tell folks at home when they ask me all about this thing, I say it is like setting a speed limit and then not having any cops.
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Sam Farr
Democratic · California
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Farr compares regulatory oversight to enforcing speed limits without police.

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