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Kathy Acker

"The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have."

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"The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have."

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

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Amber Hurdle

"Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government."

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"All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis."

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"Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government."

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Amber Hurdle

"The USA government states that the New Mexico Trinity nuclear bomb site is still highly radioactive and 'harmless'. It is interesting to note in the era of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) that it is USA government policy that radio frequency (RF) and electricity are also 'harmless'."

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"You can do whatever you want with my work."
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