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"Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free."
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"A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward."

"The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights."

"If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court."

"From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law."

"For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it."

"Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party asked me to consider seriously running for president in 2008 and I am doing so."

"The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States."

"A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot."

"When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other."

"It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one."
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"I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday."

"We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems."

"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."

"The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level."

"One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages."

"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."

"I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning."
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