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There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.

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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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Expectation Give Up Loss Right Yourself
If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades.
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Myself Past Policy Time Wrong
Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.
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Civilization Myself Practice Right Stop Support
The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed – socialism doesn’t work.
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Failure Fundamental Reason Work
You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they’re tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
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Democracy Government Money Ourselves Small Tax
If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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Expectation Give Up Loss Right Yourself
I’m not someone who’s sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.
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Believe Myself Try
We have to think before we act.
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Action Advice One Liner Thinking
Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me – they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are programs.
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Absence Book Choice Development History Prison Program Technology
All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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Address Crime Issues
We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people, so just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy as punishing anyone. Let’s not punish anyone.
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Bad Economy People Punishment Rich Work
You can not be a conservative if you’re going to keep promoting new programs that you’re not going to pay for.
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Pay Program Yourself
Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.
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Destruction Leadership Rise War
I’ve put pencil to paper… and I’ve said I would cut spending, and I’ve said exactly where. Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
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Country Hate Money Myself Quit Thinking
Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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Afraid Freedom Security Trade Willing Yourself
If you’re white and you’re rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you’re poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail.
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There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.

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There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.

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