Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There's no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong.
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PETER SCHUYLER Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for 'special entities' such as p... DANIEL L. DOCTOROFF I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there compet... HAMPTON SIDES Many of the other pavilion residents are deans, vice presidents, and professors. So now I have the o... JEANETTE LANCASTER We need to have tax relief for those who really need tax relief. The concept of tax cuts is fine, bu... CHARLES CARRIER There's nothing more invigorating than being deeply involved with a small company and a young te... MICHAEL MORITZ The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People sa... GROVER NORQUIST Rather, (we) ask healthy adults and others not included in the groups targeted for shots at the firs... CHERRY LONEY They return in small groups, but that's an opportunity for them to get at each other. 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SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH It's interesting that there are only two groups of people in our country who are not held accoun... DEBBIE STABENOW I believe when the music is being sung or being played, at the end of it, there's some sort of g... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE It's one of the top groups I've had, that's for sure. Wrestling wise, they've done some things the o... BOB NEWMAN There's no excuse for the macro corruption, but Afghanistan was always an informal society with ... KHALED HOSSEINI I've owned a business for 26 years. My family isn't in politics and my supporters aren't... MARK NEUMANN Obviously, I don't like to use my new celebrity status as a way to get first class service at a ... J. R. MARTINEZ Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever dev... RONALD REAGAN No other creatures of the savannah sleep as deeply or as soundly as lions, but after all, lions are ... 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CLINT EASTWOOD The ability to customize for each audience allows us to provide services specifically for special gr... BALA SUBRAMANIAN My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of... KHALED HOSSEINI As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth,... RODNEY YEE I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for work... LARRY CRAIG First there's my role just as an executive being responsible for advertising, regardless of gend... SUSAN WOJCICKI The Tea Party movement is a wide and diverse group. It will hurt the Republican Party if some elemen... KARL ROVE Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now... ALBERTO FUJIMORI You want to live your life and live it just as fully and as deeply as you can. That's your deep ... 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