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"Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms"
Robert Reich, Economist
"Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts"
Roger Wicker, Politician
"Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis"
Michael Burgess, Congressman
"To start with, for example, this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence"
Edwidge Danticat, Author
"I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want"
Sergei Bubka, Athlete
"I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street"
Suge Knight, Producer
"So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful"
John Perkins, Economist
"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism"
Mary McCarthy, Author
"For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us, the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we, the people, delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common"
Elliot Richardson, Lawyer
"A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue"
Phillip E. Johnson, Educator
"True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going!"
Robert Reich, Economist
"I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell"
Nellie Bly, Journalist
"Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state, pending good behavior"
Mary McCarthy, Author
"On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away"
Edwidge Danticat, Author
"This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions"
Shannen Doherty, Actress
"I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous"
Shannen Doherty, Actress
"We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us"
Henry Lawson, Writer
"The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... None other"
H. Rap Brown, Activist
"Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere"
Karel Capek, Writer
"We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence"
Gerry Adams, Politician
"The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed"
Elia Kazan, Director
"The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism"
Gerry Adams, Politician
"Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy"
David Korten, Activist
"The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism"
Francis Parker Yockey, Writer
"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance"
Philip K. Dick, Writer
"In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good"
Jim Ryun, Athlete
"In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism"
Jinato Hu
"We emerged from the events of September 11, more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before"
Jane D. Hull, Politician
"Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today"
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet
"The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves, but to the world than any single possession"
Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician
"Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England"
Karel Capek, Writer
"When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society"
George Soros, Businessman
"Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin"
Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician
"I have loved but one flag, and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations"
Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician
"We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in?"
H. Rap Brown, Activist
"An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests, compatible with the interests of others"
George Soros, Businessman
"Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives"
Gerry Adams, Politician
"Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much"
Bill Owens, Politician
"The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America"
Jim Ryun, Athlete
"The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them"
Emanuel Celler, Politician
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