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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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I think people loosely use the term ‘free speech.’ If the market wants to be such that people don’t want to watch someone, so be it.

Dec 23, 2013

Greta Van Susteren, On the Record with Greta Van Susteren
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One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.

Sep 30, 2013

Barack Obama, Speech from White House briefing room
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We followed the law. We follow our policies, we self-report, we identify problems, we fix them. And I think we do a great job. And we do, I think, more to protect people’s civil liberties and privacy than they’ll ever know.

Oct 12, 2013

Keith B. Alexander, New York Times Interview
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I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis.

Sep 22, 2013

Barack Obama, Memorial service for DC Navy Yard shooting victims
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I don't see myself as a hero, because what I'm doing is self-interested; I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy and, therefore, no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

Jun 09, 2013

Edward Snowden, Interview with The Guardian
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We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.

Aug 26, 2012

Grover Norquist, CBS 60 Minutes
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