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"Generally I'm against regulation"
Dorothy Denning, Public Servant
"It's important to me that I should be free to express myself"
George Michael, Musician
"But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy"
Mordechai Vanunu, Scientist
"And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site"
Gregg Easterbrook, Author
"When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier"
John Redwood, Politician
"At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in everyday life with the Conservatives, or yet more regulation and interference under Mr Blair"
John Redwood, Politician
"I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we're king of the hill. We need to protect democracy and the lives of those who live in the free world"
Rick Yune, Actor
"Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny"
Gijs de Vries, Politician
"Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away"
Ernest Istook, Politician
"Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion"
Ernest Istook, Politician
"Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it"
Mary Landrieu, Politician
"We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?"
Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist
"In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well"
Edmund S. Muskie, Politician
"Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life"
Donna Shalala, Public Servant
"The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards"
John Doolittle, Politician
"Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear"
John Doolittle, Politician
"I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research"
Juan Cole, Educator
"It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on"
Floyd Abrams, Lawyer
"I mean, the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent"
Floyd Abrams, Lawyer
"Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No"
John Mellencamp, Musician
"We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant"
Charley Reese, Writer
"I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism"
Gijs de Vries, Politician
"I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity"
Charles Edison, Businessman
"To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more"
Ernest Istook, Politician
"Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things, and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation"
William L. Jenkins, Politician
"There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere"
Dave Rowntree, Musician
"I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense"
Daniel Okrent, Editor
"I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty"
David Antin, Poet
"I mean, I really don't want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about the environment or about animals or about certain religious issues should be considered an extremist. That to me is a type of thought control, mind control, which is very dangerous"
Peter King, Politician
"Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing"
Michael Berryman, Actor
"Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship"
Ben Lindsey, Judge
"Some guy refuses to fight, and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in, and that seems pretty damned American to me"
Iris DeMent, Musician
"We have problems which will be addressed by Haitians"
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Statesman
"Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated"
Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist
"Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America"
Gavin Rossdale, Musician
"An office occupation is another example, as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organization, it also can raise the media profile of the campaign"
Ben Edwards, Entertainer
"With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism"
John Doolittle, Politician
"If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist"
Amiri Baraka, Poet
"Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way"
Les Baxter, Musician
"Freedom is a universal value"
Jan Peter Balkenende, Statesman
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