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Mark Takano
American
Politician
Born:
Dec 10
,
1960
Being
Congress
Gay
Me
People
Think
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I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.
Mark Takano
School
Language
Beauty
High
High School
Write
Students
Always
Years
Taught
Teach
English
Appreciate
It's common sense to be for middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts on small businesses, to be for not allowing Medicare to be turned into voucher care.
Mark Takano
Care
Sense
Small
Small Businesses
Allowing
Common
Tax
Tax Cuts
Common Sense
Turned
Cuts
Businesses
Medicare
I hope that by just being a competent member and expressing informed views on issues that aren't related to issues of LGBT equality, Republicans see me as a general asset.
Mark Takano
Hope
Me
Equality
Related
Member
See
General
Issues
Just
Being
Informed
Republicans
Views
Expressing
Asset
Competent
The model that I'd always seen as a little boy, as a teenager, as I watched other political careers, I saw people who'd start off in local government, gain experience, move to state government, and then on to federal office. I'd always believed that kind of experience was important.
Mark Takano
Government
Experience
People
Political
Seen
Important
Other
State
Teenager
Local
State Government
Local Government
Saw
Kind
Federal
Boy
Always
Off
Model
Office
Move
Gain
Little
Then
Believed
Start
Watched
Careers
You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.
Mark Takano
You
Experience
World
Better
Poverty
Think
Changed
Extreme
Extreme Poverty
Ways
Seeing
About
Make
Want
Which
Start
As someone who is both an ethnic minority and openly gay, I often talk about how simply being who I am has given me a double awareness of the vulnerability that some Americans may be facing.
Mark Takano
Me
Gay
Minority
Awareness
Some
About
Someone
Given
Both
Facing
Simply
Openly
Talk
Vulnerability
How
Am
American
May
Often
Being
Double
Ethnic
Who
Every member of Congress is sent to Washington to represent all of their constituents, regardless of their age, race, social standing, or sexual orientation, and I believe that America should be a place where everybody can dream, and nobody is left out.
Mark Takano
Age
Congress
Believe
Every
Everybody
Member
Out
Dream
Sexual
Constituents
Nobody
Left
America
Represent
Where
Regardless
Place
Race
Social
Sent
Should
Standing
Orientation
Washington
Interracial marriages were basically legalized, but nevertheless, there was a social stigma attached to them for a long time to come. I imagine that's going to be true for same-sex marriages - that people's emotional comfort level with it will not fully materialize for decades.
Mark Takano
Time
People
Will
Be True
Long
Long Time
Marriages
Attached
Emotional
True
Nevertheless
Come
Comfort
Stigma
Materialize
Were
Decades
Going
Same-Sex
Social
Them
Fully
Level
Basically
Imagine
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