"Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion……" — Rick Perlstein
"Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall."
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39 Quotes by Rick Perlstein
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Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting…
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No historical analogies are exactly precise.
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All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology…
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Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of…
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Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under…
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Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the…
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Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.
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Let there be a special place in Hell for pundits who make predictions.
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Fight injustice, that our children might be blessed.
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For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should…
— Ginger Baker
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of…
— Edward Abbey
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Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes…
— Tony Blair
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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion;…
— Julie Burchill
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies…
— Edmund Burke
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
— Barbara Bush
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I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
— Barbara Bush
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I do not believe abortion should be legal.
— Herman Cain
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Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again…
— Tony Campolo
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I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.
— Tony Campolo
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