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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right, the guy who runs Facebook got mad at the NSA for spying on people. Talk about the pot unfriending the kettle!

Mar 14, 2014

Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
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I'm just a guy who got asked to do something for his country by people at the highest level of government, and I did the best that I could.

Apr 18, 2014

James Mitchell, Interview with The Guardian
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It's time to create an organization that's fully devoted to safeguarding the security of Internet users – even if that might make life harder for government hackers.

Apr 12, 2014

Sanchez. Julian, The Guardian
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In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a battlefield - however despicable - are guaranteed a trial by our Constitution. No one argues that Americans who commit treason shouldn’t be punished. The maximum penalty for treason is death. But the Constitution specifies the process necessary to convict.

May 12, 2014

Rand Paul, New York Times
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Our country was born out of a desire to be free. And every day since, it’s been protected by our men and women in uniform – people who believed so deeply in America, they were willing to give their lives for it.

May 24, 2014

Barack Obama, Weekly Address
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Speaker Boehner, by going down the path of this lawsuit, has opened the door to Republicans possibly considering impeachment at some point in the future. I think that if the President enacted immigration reform, that would certainly up the likelihood that [Republicans] would contemplate impeachment.

Jul 25, 2014

Dan Pfeiffer, Talking to reporters
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I don’t care about your sympathy. I don’t give a s**t that you feel sorry for me. Get to work and do something. I’ll tell the president the same thing if he calls me. Getting a call from a politician doesn’t impress me.

Mar 27, 2014

Richard Martinez, Memorial ceremony at UC Santa Barbara’s Harder Stadium
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Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries.

May 28, 2014

Edward Snowden, NBC
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Patriots don't go to Russia. They don't seek asylum in Cuba. They don't seek asylum in Venezuela. They fight their cause here. Edward Snowden is a coward. He is a traitor. And he has betrayed his country. And if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so.

May 28, 2014

John Kerry, NBC Interview
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No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.

Jan 19, 2014

Larry Flynt, CBS Sunday Morning
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