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"This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit"
Nigel Farage, Politician
"It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views"
Carl Karcher, Businessman
"It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself"
Franz von Papen, Politician
"Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy"
Juan Bosch, Statesman
"The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing"
Penn Jillette, Entertainer
"Janet Reno, during her confirmation hearings, said she would come down harder on porno, and lately she's talked about how violence on television has an effect on violence in the real world"
Penn Jillette, Entertainer
"The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles, the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done"
Anthony Kennedy, Judge
"Keeping small nations enslaved, because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there, are totally unacceptable"
Mikhail Saakashvili, Statesman
"Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote"
Emmylou Harris, Musician
"I was in Germany when the wall came down"
Joe Cocker, Musician
"The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening"
James Talent, Politician
"I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will, under sovereign State authority, fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it"
Henry A. Wise, Statesman
"If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free"
Benjamin F. Wade, Politician
"Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!"
Padraic Pearse, Writer
"It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote"
Todd Akin, Politician
"I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it"
Robert Greenwald, Director
"We have to make sure that we are a force for peace and stability in the world, and that we're prepared to defend freedom and the security of the American people"
Thad Cochran, Politician
"Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted"
Sam Brownback, Politician
"A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation"
Thomas Francis Meagher, Soldier
"We have to withdraw from this undemocratic institution and ensure that these people no longer have any influence on British affairs. We would like to see other European nations do the same thing. I think that will happen"
Steve Blake, Athlete
"I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets"
Robert Bourassa, Politician
"It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance for our time. Now that the film is coming out, it looks like we're back in another time where repression of expression is all the rage"
Philip Kaufman, Director
"If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age"
Pete Coors, Businessman
"We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, Did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer"
Michael Connelly, Author
"Well, I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama"
Laura Ingraham, Celebrity
"Well, I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress, don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry"
Laura Ingraham, Celebrity
"So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish"
Alexander Downer, Politician
"Increasingly, Americans don't own America"
Marcy Kaptur, Politician
"I just want to be able to sit on grass as long as I want to, without anybody telling me to leave. Everything is so restricted here, in that you actually have to stand behind a line, you can't go up the canyon and enjoy the view"
Franka Potente, Actress
"The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands"
Abdallah II
"There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows"
Katherine Graham, Publisher
"This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better"
John Sergeant Wise, Author
"The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky"
John Sergeant Wise, Author
"In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous"
John Sergeant Wise, Author
"The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery"
John H. Reagan, Politician
"This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice"
Jim Walsh, Politician
"The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny"
Jim DeMint, Politician
"Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!"
Marianne Faithfull, Musician
"In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace, called a mall, we should not abridge that right"
Sol Wachtler, Judge
"Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life"
Randi Weingarten
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