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"People who don’t normally pay a lot of attention to this issue suddenly are.” — Mayors Against Illegal Guns Director Mark Glaze
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"The president did best and crafted his majority when he spoke to true progressive values." —Eliot Spitzer
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"At what point is an investment something beyond what you really want to be doing?" —Richard Robbins
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"This 'Plan B' was supposed to serve as sort of a cudgel to get Obama to move, and it hasn't quite worked." — Brian Beutler, senior congressional reporter with Talking Points Memo, analyzes the fiscal cliff negotiations
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"It doesn’t do anything about our debt, it doesn't do anything about sequestration and it doesn’t avoid the cliff." —Rep. Steve Israel takes apart the GOP's fiscal cliff 'Plan B'
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“There need to be Republicans who recognize that this is larger than us." — Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee on gun control
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"I believe that the American people now have been so moved by this horrific and unspeakable tragedy that they will speak up." —Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.
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"Not only is [Obama] lifting the threshold for the tax hike up to $400,000 ... from $250,000, but he’s also chipping away at Social Security and Medicare." —Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich
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"We know this will happen again." —CT's Rep. John Larson on the Newtown shooting
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"I don’t think either side at this point has a lot of appetite for brinksmanship." —POLITICO's Ben White on the fiscal cliff
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"My life changed forever in just a fraction of a second." —Former Gabrielle Giffords staffer and Tucson shooting survivor Pam Simon
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Matt Taibbi's take on who should be our next treasury secretary? "Just not a Wall Street person."
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"I would vote on a ban on assault weapons in a New York minute if we could get it to the floor." — Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.)
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"The NRA leadership may not be ready for this discussion, but the American public certainly is." — Stephen Barton
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"'Meaningful action.' It's a nice phrase, but let's stop with the talk and start to define what meaningful action really is." — Eliot Spitzer
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"Federal law clearly prohibits unions from requiring membership." — Eliot Spitzer
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“If the law doesn’t apply equally to everybody, then you don’t really have a system of law." — Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi
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"She had no blame whatsoever in this." — The Atlantic's Steve Clemons
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"The non-profit form is being abused to pay for political ads and other political activities, while concealing the activity of the donors." — New York Attorney General Eric T. SchneidermanViewpoint with Eliot Spitzer shared a link.
"If people can freeload and not pay their fair share, there will be less of a resource for the union to represent people." — Rep Sandy Levin (D-Mich.)Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer shared a link.
“This is a bunch of middle-aged, white men making decisions for women.” — Katie Oppenheim of the Michigan Nurses Association, regarding restrictive women's health legislation that has passed the Michigan state Senate
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"According to the Economic Policy Institute, wages for full-time, full-year union and non-union workers in right-to-work states are about $1,500 less annually than a similar worker in a non right-to-work state." - Eliot Spitzer
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"The reason they're only tracking the past five months is because if they started in January, they'd see that government jobs are actually down for the year." - Eliot Spitzer
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"As labor unions have declined, workers have had less power and significantly the median wage has declined in tandem." - Robert Reich
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"If we go over for a few weeks it’s not clear if the damage will be so great, but it also is a little bit hard to see how the economy survives next year healthy if it’s not averted in some way.” — The New York Times' David LeonhardtViewpoint with Eliot Spitzer shared a link.
"I think that [the Supreme Court] would not have taken both these cases if there wasn’t at least some support on the court for a historic decision." —Richard Socarides
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"This is a battle between the entrenched polluting special interests and what I hope will become an energized public and White House." —Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
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"You can go to an art gallery and you can stand at a photograph for five hours. I’m going to control how long you see that photograph and that’s a huge, important responsibility to you the viewer." — Ken Burns
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Supply-side godfather Bruce Bartlett: To get out of this recession we need "an easy money policy."
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“When Jim DeMint looked around [after the 2012 election], he looked and saw a future where he would be standing by himself very often." —Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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"Republicans really are overpaying their hand if they think they’re going to get a lot of leverage out of this debt ceiling." —Congressman Chris Van Hollen
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"If the richest country in the world, which has been the biggest cumulative polluter, refuses to lead, you could hardly expect poorer countries to do so." —Climate Progress Editor Joe Romm
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“I was absolutely astonished and shocked and surprised [at the defeat of the treaty]." —Sen. Richard Blumenthal
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Paul Ryan's "crazy economic ideas are the hill these people are ready to die on." —Charles Pierce, contributing writer for Esquire
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On "Viewpoint" tonight at 8E/5P, former Marine Corps Captain Zoe Bedell will talk about the lawsuit she and three other women have brought against the Department of Defense to challenge the ban on women in combat.
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“People are just fed up." —Aurora shooting survivor Stephen Barton talks about gun control with Media Matters for America Senior Fellow Eric Boehlert
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"We still judge people not on the content of their character but on the color of their skin, and we have to change that." —Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns talks about his latest film, "The Central Park Five"
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"Bottom line, Boehner's in a box." —Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt.
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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns will join "Viewpoint" tonight to discuss his latest, "The Central Park Five."
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“We’ve put a line down in the sand and we have to be ready to use military force if [Assad] doesn’t back down." — The Washington Institute for Near East Policy's James Jeffrey, former U.S. ambassador to Iraq (2010-2012) and Turkey (2008-2010)
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"It seems that [Netanyahu] is far more interested in worrying about how many seats his coalition is going to win rather than the fate of Israel when it comes to its international posture." —Marc Ginsberg, former U.S. ambassador to Morocco
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The stock market could drive "Democrats to deal sooner rather than later." —Dan Gross, global business editor for Newsweek/The Daily Beast
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"Both sides are standing up each day preening themselves campaign-style, as if they expect the public to pay attention and give deference to the repetition of the same ideas. And I for one am getting tired of it." —Eliot Spitzer
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