"My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception."
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"Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.“
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"I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God."
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"I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life."
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"I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me."
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"We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States."
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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
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"We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal."
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"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one."
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