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"We need to show the Congress that our Government is no longer on sale to the highest bidder. It belongs to the voters."
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"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

"The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here."

"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."

"In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy."

"However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone."

"In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders."

"For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom."
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"Sometimes, how a person answers a question is more important than what they actually say."

"I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits."

"The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, intact for over 200 years, guaranteed that the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath of affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. After September 11th, 2001, those were just words on an old piece of paper, no longer a restriction of the Government's overreaching power to shake down its subjects."

"The rules of war for federal court were contained in the 86 rules of federal civil procedure, the rules of the local federal court, and the courtroom rules of the particular federal judge."

"There's never a right or wrong side in a divorce case, but, given the human capacity for hate, the breakup of a legal relationship so tied to emotion often brought out the worst in people."

"When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself."
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