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Esther Dyson

"I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government."

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Amber Hurdle

"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

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"Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency."

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Amber Hurdle

"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

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"Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown."

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Amber Hurdle

"Well it's not a matter for me to say what Llew Smith can or cannot do, he's an elected Member of Parliament."

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"Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows."

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"As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars."

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"I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge."

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Amber Hurdle

"Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions."

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"Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation."

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"And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer."
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"There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes."
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"A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell."
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"Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first."
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"Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better."
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"Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities."
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"I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago."
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"Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away."
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"It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online."
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