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John Perry Barlow

"Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds."

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Amber Hurdle

"The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush."

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Amber Hurdle

"A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both."

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Amber Hurdle

"The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it."

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Amber Hurdle

"This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs."

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Amber Hurdle

"I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions."

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Amber Hurdle

"Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme."

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Amber Hurdle

"The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well."

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Amber Hurdle

"Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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"I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior."
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"Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales."
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"But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having."
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"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before."
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"They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases."
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"The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it."
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"I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood."
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"The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable."
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"It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing."
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