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On a bill that expands the powers of the Patriot Act:
"This draft bill constitutes yet another egregious blow to our citizens' civil liberties. Among other things, the Bush administration now wants to imprison suspects before they are tried and create DNA databases of lawful residents who have committed no crime." - Representative John Conyers |
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2/9/03 |
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"The Bush-Cheney energy policies leave us at the mercy of a region that's racked with violence and instability, now more than ever. Every day our service men and women put their lives on the line so that oil can flow from around the world to America's gas stations." - Senator John Kerry |
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2/10/03 |
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2/11/03 |
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"We get general information and specific information, but none of the specific information talks about time, place or methods or means." - Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge
Uh, Tom, the next time you want to get a definition of "specific," don't ask W. |
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"So, I think it is a ploy using the poor people to bring more money to the rich people who own the track. It's the same game over and over again."- Rev. Anthony Dorsey of First Baptist Church of Pimlico |
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2/12/03 |
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"Data-mining research ... is a dangerous step that threatens one of the values we are fighting for - freedom." - Senator Russ Feingold |
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2/18/03 |
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"We always thought [Ehrlich] would go after the environment, but we did not think he would go after families and children first." - David Paulson, Maryland Democratic Party |
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2/19/03 |
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"Now the greed has gotten so great that they are trying to take advantage of a state that does not have casino gambling. In Virginia, they'll use all the same arguments they used in Maryland to put their own slot machines in." - Reverend Thomas A. Grey |
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2/20/03 |
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"We can take a stand against drug abuse and prostitution, but for some reason we say gambling is OK. Mount Washington is a rather affluent community, but no one has asked us if we would rather have slots or more taxes." - Charles Oseroff |
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2/22/03 |
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"I anticipated that they would rule against us because in time of war the judiciary needs to defer to the executive branch." - Larry Flynt
Hey, if Larry Flynt can figure it out, how come the rest of America hasn't? |
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2/23/03 |
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"I didn't mind making cuts when the cuts inconvenienced people. Telling an elderly woman that she's going to have to cut her blood pressure medication in half - that hurts her. I'm not willing to hurt her." - Mike Huckabee, Governor of Arkansas |
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2/24/03 |
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"In two short years, George W. Bush has taught us what the W stands for: Wrong. Wrong for our children, wrong for families, wrong for our values, wrong for America... This presidency is a failure for the great middle class of America." Senator John Edwards |
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2/26/03 |
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"Baltimore City and Prince George's County are two of the most violent jurisdictions in the country, with a murder rate more than 50 times higher than the average murder rate of other Maryland counties. We are constantly reviewing our federal firearm prosecution efforts to [ensure] that we maintain the most aggressive prosecution effort possible." - U.S. Attorney Thomas M. DiBiagio |
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2/28/03 |
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"Afghanistan has been destroyed, completely, devastated almost to ground zero. A lot more needs to be done in order to enable us to stand on our own feet. And a lot more needs to be done for a consistent period of time, in a systematic, sustained way." - Afghan President Hamid Karzai
Afghanistan, Afghanistan, hmm, where is that? Is it anywhere near Iraq? |
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3/1/03 |
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"We agree that any attempt to provide short-term fiscal stimulus should not result in larger long-term deficits, and that the administration's new plan is problematic in that regard." - Committee for Economic Development |
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3/6/03 |
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"I think he's in a personal contest of wills with Saddam Hussein. And he's determined not to blink first. And to that sense, it is personal." - David Albright |
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3/9/03 |
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3/17/03 |
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"When I'm President, one of the first things I'm going to prove is that a President doesn't need to have a brother in a tough election to protect a state's coastlines. I'm going to do the right thing for California for the right reasons." - Senator John Kerry |
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