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"Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt."
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"As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law."
"We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us."
"Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped."
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"The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics."
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"People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans."
"People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'"
"Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned."
"Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree."
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