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"You know firemen... they always have to tell the guys, 'Don't break down the door because if you try the door knob, it's probably open.'"
- Terry Crews May 19, 2014
"Seventy-two percent of Americans say big government is a greater threat to the U.S. in the future than is big business or big labor..."
- Gallup poll, Dec. 5-8, 2013
"Common sense, sometimes is worth a lot more than highly, highly sophisticated theories."
- Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, IMF, April 10, 2014
"Change is hard. Fixing what's broken is hard. Overcoming skepticism and fear of something new is hard. A lot of times folks would prefer the devil they know to the devil they don't... but today should remind us that the goal we've set for ourselves... that goal is achievable."
- Pres. Barack Obama, April 1, 2014
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
- Pres. John F. Kennedy
"The whole government should be fired – make a change – a change is, get rid of the old and in with the new."
- Sally Barnes-Breen, whose father-in-law died while waiting to get an appointment at the VA
"We need simple rules that everyone understands."
- John Stossel
"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it"
- Chinese proverb
"Every brand new start needs new beginnings."
- Michelle Knight, April 2014
"I've been to Harvard, I've been to Columbia, and there's a lot of dumb people out there..."
- Jesse Watters, Fox News, O'Reilly Factor
"People who receive bribes give rise to a feeling of disgust and cause the public to despise the state's institutions. The taker of bribes is like a traitor who betrays the public trust that was given to him - trust without which a proper public service cannot be maintained."
- Judge David Rozen, Tel Aviv District Court
"I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security."
- Ronald Reagan
"Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense."
- Ronald Reagan
"If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich?"
- Gerald Cohen, 2000
"When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty."
- John Basil Barnhill
"It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom – never."
- Victor Davis Hanson
"We American citizens are, basically, in a cold war with the 202 area code."
- Rachel Maddow, July 25, 2014
"For if liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost."
- Aristotle, Politics, 384-322 BCE
"Where laws end, tyranny begins."
- William Pitt, January 9, 1770
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."
- Daniel Webster, June 3, 1834
"It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty."
- John C. Calhoun, January 1848
"Humans have a right to do what humans do. That's it. End of story. There's no argument, there's no exceptions. Humans have rights – they get to do what humans get to do. Case closed, good night."
- David Letterman, April 3, 2013
