Tom Allen Quotes - Page 2

• The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.

  Tom Allen

  Religious, Rights, Special

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• They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

  Tom Allen

  Hippie, Rights, Law

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• Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response

  Tom Allen

  Mercury, Problem, Plant

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• Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked for a year (1970-71) on the staff of Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, this was a different place, more collegial, more sensitive to data, more concerned about all of the American people. I think because the for-profit media prizes conflict above cooperation and sound bites above analysis, politicians have learned to adapt to those tendencies. Consequently, our public debates are dumbed down as our problems grow more complex.

  Tom Allen

  Thinking, Data, Media

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