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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Thomas Jefferson

You haven't achieved equality until you're a legitimate target for humor.

Scott Adams

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is highly uncharacteristic for there to be legitimate pedestrian traffic in that area.

Richard Kite

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

Wendell Berry

If you're asked to provide any information via email you should not do it. Any legitimate financial institution should provide you with the ability to key information on the web page itself.

Greg Jones

As far as we are concerned, Labor Day is a legitimate venue for the workers to exercise their constitutional right to freedom of assembly.

Josua Mata

We all want the withdrawal, ... We all believe it is an illegitimate occupation, and it is a legitimate resistance.

Abdul Karim

It's not a censure. It's enforcement for a legitimate purpose.

Randy Bly

Deep down, beneath all our insecurities, beneath all our hopes for and beliefs in equality, each of us believes we're better than anyone else. Because it's our beliefs that are right, our doubts that are allowable ones, our fears which are legitimate.

Audrey Beth Stein

They know they're under considerably more scrutiny now. They're aware of the legitimate concerns of observers, and they're trying to accommodate those concerns.

Hossam Bahgat

We have a legitimate chance to repeat, but it's always a horse race in this division. I don't think any team's going to be 15-2.

Pat Duffy

It doesn't make a lot of sense to me that an industry player would make a bid, though it would be more legitimate for a financial company to make such a bid.

Jon Cartwright

Could significantly interfere with the government's own legitimate investigative activities in an unnecessary and harmful way.

Chuck Rosenberg

The people that are never looked at are those who have a legitimate reason to be there. These are the people with the keys to the kingdom.

Tom Cash

We're gratified that we're going forward, ... I think we came to a reasonable agreement with the neighbors about their concerns. A lot of the concerns were legitimate, but some were way out there.

Jonny Moseley

Iowa business deserve the right to responsibly offer legitimate legal products to their customers.

Dawn Carlson

He's a legitimate Derby horse. It would be so nice to have a Derby winner.

Shari Eisaman

Savage here, Savage there. He's the whole package. He's a legitimate back.

Grady Bennett

A lot of the expansion this time is based on a legitimate need of the players to be in the market.

Michael Cosgrove

We have a legitimate shot. We have a shot because of the depth people like Brian and Jamaal give us.

Bubba Thornton

The girls we spoke to see Barbie torture as a legitimate play activity.

Agnes Nairn

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

William Henry Harrison

I definitely feel that way. It makes me feel good that I have a legitimate opportunity to get there. It seems like everything is falling into place.

Mike Costanzo

I think it's a very legitimate issue, but I think it's way down on the priority list.

Brandon Powell

This is a legitimate concern and that's why the central bank has to urge commercial banks to pay attention to their pace of new lending.

Yi Gang

The government is planning to promote legitimate software use among enterprises and companies.

Wang Ziqiang

This year it's my year to shine. I'm at 186 pounds so I'm a legitimate 189-pounder this year.

Nick Kalscheur

Bagman is not a legitimate career choice.

Nancy Cartwright

But whether we have support or not in Chad... our cause is legitimate and we will continue our struggle.

Ahmed Hussein

CORD is concerned about some really legitimate things, like being able to get to your driveway, like being able to park in front of your house and not having some patient's car blocking your car so you can't get out.

Joyce Chen

The agenda behind this doesn't appear to be legitimate.

Dave Mcclure

I'm not aware that there are a large number of these trips going on. There have been some, but they've been legitimate and designed to give legislators the opportunity to learn about an industry, issue or business.

Dan Seitz

He'll have the first legitimate shot at it in a long time. His vaulting is really coming around. It's probably one of the most exciting things about what he's doing.

Mike Shaffer

People certainly have legitimate concerns about the war in Iraq, and our state is very diverse when it comes to trade issues, ... The war has been divisive, not just in our state, but in our nation.

Paul Berendt

We think that it will be legitimate and it will be a free and democratic election.

Fareed Ayar

Foster had two legitimate Conference USA offers from Tulsa and Memphis, but he stuck with us.

David Elson

Cold feet are often symptomatic of a legitimate intuition that you may be heading for the wrong place at the wrong time.

Suzanne Fields

Each side is making continuous efforts to adjust to the other's legitimate interests.

Shen Dingli

It's a seemingly legitimate way of pointing out hypocrisy. Is there really hypocrisy there? Probably, but in more cases, probably not.

Massie Ritsch

There's a very fine line between what is considered legal and ethical and legitimate, and [what constitutes] bribery.

Randall Eliason

This was a legitimate military operation which took place in the framework of the Caucasus front.

Akhmed Zakayev

Those are legitimate public uses that the city should have eminent domain in their bag as a tool if they need it.

Mayor Michael Montandon

I would hope that if they all received some type of separation, it is all legitimate. That would be my biggest concern.

Councilor Dennis Eaniri

We have mistresses for pleasure, concubines to care for our daily body's needs and wives to bear us legitimate children and to be faithful guardians of our households.

Demosthenes

We will have four legitimate Ontario teams in the tournament, the first time that has happened.

Paul Barnetson

It's time to make our fireworks law legitimate.

Rep. Dave Crooks

This is not a case about religion or Islam or a cultural clash. It's about people who have been sued for having asked legitimate questions.

Jeffrey Robbins

I don't think within that context that there is anything legitimate academic freedom has to fear.

Bill Rammell

We've got a handful of guys. We've got as many as eight or 10 that have a legitimate chance [at the NCAA Championships].

Greg Roy

It's a legitimate fear that communities will change. Of course, the roads are coming regardless because the area is growing and changing.

Sarah Clarke

Financial records are protected. We can't, by law, get your tax forms. To get personal credit histories, you need to have a legitimate interest.

Don Macleod

It's a legitimate concern that the US business has slowed down.

Michael Koskuba

If the documents appear to be legitimate, we accept them.

Tom Hensley

There are literally hundreds ... of legitimate public right of ways closed to public use.

Ron Moody

We need a correct definition such as what is commercial bribery and what is the legitimate commission.

Li Jinhua

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

If we can, we'll just leave in the legitimate votes.

Mark Gerth

We are not cranky or eccentric, we have a legitimate claim and we want a voice in local issues.

David Ball

It has been a very strange development. Consumers are being threatened with non-renewal for filing legitimate claims.

Doug Heller

It's been very difficult to strategize with Michelle because I haven't seen her compete but one time, and that wasn't a legitimate competition.

John Nicks

I can't say everyone who sues the attorney general doesn't have a legitimate argument, (but) obviously, sometimes it's done as a stalling tactic.

Joel White

It wasn't a legitimate loan and it was a phony foreclosure. He was using fictitious names and addresses.

Carol S. Rebello

This isn't something any one of us can solve. We need more student input ... that's how student government will become more legitimate, when it becomes about you.

Jonah Brown

Oklahoma's got a great team. That's a team with a legitimate chance to go to the Final Four.

Kurt Budke

The trafficking of counterfeit goods is a global enterprise that robs legitimate companies of billions of dollars in revenues every year.

Charles Demore

We're slowing them down a little bit. Or at least we're diverting them. My legitimate e-commerce customers and my legitimate retail customers know that I'm trying. And that gives them a little more faith in us.

Peter Capolino

It was clear to them by the end of our visit that we had legitimate questions. I was concerned about bringing a football team there.

Tom Collins

He wants to ensure that whatever bill (to ban Internet gambling) is brought to the House floor does not adversely affect the legitimate gaming industry.

Jason Galanes

Most teams in this section have at least one or two kids who have a legitimate shot of going to Hershey.

Jamie Kyriazis

Moral disapproval of a group cannot be a legitimate state interest.

Justice Marla Luckert

What legitimate reason do they have? I see none.

Joseph Lopez

They've got four legitimate skill players who might get drafted. We will have our hands full with them.

Murray Smith

We cannot sit idly by while these services continue to operate illegally, especially at a time when new legitimate services are being launched.

Hilary Rosen

If you want to buy a ticket, you know you're getting a legitimate ticket.

Warren Tompkins

I don't condone the use of EPO, but it does have a legitimate use in the treatment of a number of cancers.

Matt White

He's a legitimate (NCAA) Division I point guard. Even from what I saw in the junior colleges, there's no better point guard out there that we could have got.

Jackson Wheeler

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

Al Capone

Our section is loaded. The teams ahead of us got legitimate seeds.

Tahnia Campbell

I think Bart is writing about his personal journey, about legitimate things that bother him.

Darrell Bock

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Gennaro Anguilo

Some of these groups have legitimate concerns. Some just oppose development.

Ryan Julison

I see no legitimate evidence of that behavior.

Jay Walker

It was clear to them by the end of our visit that we had some legitimate concerns.

Tom Collins

As far as I can see, this looks a complete dog's breakfast of a clause as it fails to consider that many so-called 'hacker tools' have perfectly legitimate uses.

Dave Lambert

The way Travis is wrestling he has a legitimate shot at being a state champion.

Dave Ewing

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts...

William Gibson

That was a big deal yesterday for the agency. It takes our resources away from legitimate cases that we're working.

Twis Lizasuain

In the U.S., our work with law enforcement focuses on criminal computer networks. With legitimate businesses that copy software illegally, we generally follow through with a civil suit.

Nancy Anderson

Every year we have a legitimate chance to get to the playoffs, ... If we don't get to the playoffs, it's a disappointment. It's a great spot.

Brian Corey

What he did was to demonstrate to a very skeptical and rather sometimes indifferent profession ... that the history of black Americans was a legitimate field for scholarly inquiry and investigation.

Leon Litwack

I think anyone within five shots has a legitimate chance.

Tripp Isenhour

Everybody gets a legitimate warm up. It's even to the point where the guys come over and ask if they can get some warm-up time.

Lele Forood

Commercial real estate has become a legitimate asset class.

Brad Neiman

They're very, very structured, ... If they took what they do and became legit, they could be legitimate businessman.

Bill Powell

To the extent that people do not know of anything happening to them, there is an issue about whether they can complain. So, I think that's a legitimate question.

Glenn Fine

We have a legitimate chance to score 30 to 40 points and that should give us a top ten finish.

Tommy Badon

Same script, different cast, ... very legitimate. We have athletes at every position.

Brandon Johnson

You don't pay money to get money. Those aren't legitimate scholarships.

Diane Rodriguez

It's important to ask what are we spending all this money for, and are we creating the benefit desired? It's legitimate to say probably not.

David Chavern

I do not think it is a legitimate decision. When I see him I will have more to say.

Anton Drel

If the LSE had a legitimate point to make, it's that there is a demand for more information. The implication was that we were so worried about the costs of this scheme that we didn't dare put it out into the public domain.

Andy Burnham

Kent is a good, legitimate, honest businessman.

Michael Oppenheimer

There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.

Tucker Carlson

I can't imagine they really want to ostracize companies that use DRM. There are highly legitimate interests of copyright holders involved.

Florian Mueller

Arafat is our interlocutor, as EU leaders said at the Barcelona summit on March 16. He remains our interlocutor and the legitimate authority.

Cristina Gallach

Well, those were legitimate concerns.

Joie Alexander

We've had the impression that there has been a decrease in the amount of illegal activity on many campuses but not all, ... That's a reflection of the fact that a legitimate alternative is not sufficient in and of itself.

Cary Sherman

We had them on the run in the first half. They're a legitimate No. 1, and we were right there with them. (The UT fans) didn't have much to cheer for.

Caroline Williams

Our national federations are legitimate members, some are stronger, some are weaker.

Don Porter

The arguments for better immigration enforcement and controls are perfectly legitimate, and obviously the system as it's operating is now is badly broken, ... but by and large, anti-terrorism is a different endeavor.

Doris Meissner

The offers are still out there. If we don't get a deal done, then they're legitimate, but we expect to get it done.

Steve Simon

Since we cannot get Mrs. Arroyo to account in an impeachment proceedings, demonstrations will have to be resorted into and that is why they cannot prevent demonstrations all the more because that's a legitimate avenue for airing grievances for the people.

Aquilino Pimentel

If we lose Genesis as a legitimate scientific and historical explanation for man, then we lose the validity of Christianity. Period.

Thomas Sharp

It's not for the government to say that's not a legitimate trade-off to make. Canadians need to question the idea that just because something implicates health that government intervention is justified.

Jacob Sullum

We're only entering 12 kids this year. But all 12 have a legitimate shot of qualifying.

Chris Como

We disclose our funding, Common Cause does not. So it's rather ironic that we would be attacked on that basis. But at the end of the day, just because Common Cause doesn't agree with the way we seek grant funding, that doesn't make advocacy illegitimate. Nor does it make theirs legitimate, their attack legitimate.

Bob Johnson

Toughness played a much bigger role on those teams. We had eight legitimate fighters. I helped with that toughness.

Mel Angelstad

I think it's quite credible, ... We consider that to be a legitimate expansion of the building.

Tim Coulon

The question is whether the protesters have not overstepped the boundary from a legitimate democratic culture to mob rule.

Michael Nelson

We give corporate customers control. They tell us what e-mail is legitimate, and we let that information through.

Shawn O'connor

[Hirsen told O'Reilly during their Tuesday night] Factor ... drowns out legitimate discourse.

American Citizen

But we told Mike we're not going to back off on what we see as our legitimate role as a party.

Bob Martinez

No more than the legitimate dissemination of information to the public.

Armstrong Williams

But I think the intelligence was accurate, and that it was put to legitimate use in the drafting process.

Richard Dearlove

This was not a meeting about apologies and the like. This was a meeting designed to address the legitimate issues that Sen. Coleman had. And the meeting did that.

Dennis Richardson

For the legitimate reason of streamlining its trial presentation.

Christopher Christie

I think there is a perception that there has been a change in the district's position, which is a legitimate concern to us.

Mark Rodgers

There's no reason to resign. Why should we, we're legitimate board members.

Jerry Kelley

You have proposed a compromise which is basically acceptable, and will, I believe, both accommodate our concerns and allow the committee to proceed with its legitimate legislative purposes.

David Kendall

As far as we were concerned, it was a legitimate deal with a realistic price.

Thomas Murphy

This is a legitimate right that China is entitled to, and we will resort to this mechanism when it is time to do so.

Bo Xilai

One thing we always do well is run bases. I've got seven or eight guys that are legitimate base-stealing threats.

Jimmy Harris

These are legitimate concerns to me.

Tom Jackson

I think that in the Breeders' Cup, there will be a legitimate pace. It's amazing to me how little respect this horse gets. I don't think any horse in any division has accomplished in the last year what he has.

Graham Motion

He hit a lot of tremendously long home runs. I can only think of one that hasn't been just an absolute bomb. He hit a lot of very legitimate, long home runs.

Calvin Baisley

In the past, the CFL has had great difficulty of where to place these players in terms of how do you give them legitimate tryouts.

Ted Hellard

What's going to happen when they're gone? It's a legitimate concern in the industry, ... They're a huge percentage of our business.

Gary Bongiovanni

We have no basis to know whether it's a legitimate expense or not. What do any of us know about accounting? That's what we hire professionals to do.

Marc Ward

Those with legitimate access is where the real problem lies.

Gerry Egan

There is no doubt that our demand for the Finance Ministry is a legitimate one and part of our world view.

Yuli Tamir

We felt he had a legitimate shot of getting on the awards stand, but there was nothing we could do with his condition.

Roger Branham

Now with the girls she has and their experience, they have become a legitimate team in single-A girls basketball.

Terrance Haywood

We're questioning the legality of that. It's hard for us to justify that as a legitimate cost.

Peter Suwak

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

Benjamin Haydon

It's my practice to pay as I go. If I go out to the Oscars, I have an expense account for legitimate business expenses.

Lloyd Grove

The literature at the top says Reader's Digest but it is not. If you look at the literature, it says USA Direct Inc. What they do is say you have won and of course everyone knows Reader's Digest so they assume it's legitimate.

Jeannie Hoskins

It's perfectly legitimate to talk about intelligent design. I think teenagers are the very people who should talk about this issue, but I don't think there's a place for it in the biology class.

Michael Ruse

People in government are not using that legitimate power of government to protect the environment.

Bill Ritter

I'd hate to give consumers a false sense that these 214 sites are all legitimate if they aren't.

Tom Mcginnis

It is a message that special interests can close off legitimate avenues of scientific inquiry.

John Wiley

This condition would indicate to me that either the site is being overwhelmed with legitimate users or a (denial of service) attack.

Shawn White

We did a legitimate cap-friendly deal with a low cap number in the first year [$1.5 million].

Ozzie Newsome

This is a big sign-off on downloadable music. It brings some valid and legitimate content to MP3.

Gene Hoffman

No worker should be imprisoned or penalized for carrying out legitimate trade union activities.

Juan Somavia

It's a perfectly legitimate deduction. I've never had a problem with anybody claiming it.

Bob Augustine

If there is a legitimate criticism, it is that the county should have done a better job of looking at all their alternatives earlier. For that I take full responsibility.

Bill Dodd

It tells me I'm legitimate. When you don't have a medal, it's hard, even if you know you're capable of it.

Warren Tanner

He's really having a great year. He is legitimate in five events at every meet.

David Tibbs

Propaganda, however legitimate, can speak no louder than the truth.

Sterling Brown

We had 37 fouls, 25 of them were legitimate. Some of the fouls, we didn't even touch them. You have to hand it to Angelina though, they played a good game.

Marcus Thornton

Web sites get hacked so frequently, probably 50 a day, and if a hacker breaks into a Web site, they can easily change the code on the site, so that when users go to the site they think it's a legitimate Web site, and they will get infected.

Chris Rouland

The decree was legitimate, and we have no intention to foil the cabinet. Moreover, we want it to succeed along with political harmony.

Ahmed Abdel Rahman

[Investors have raised] honest, legitimate questions ... But we're near or already have hit bottom as an industry . . . we feel pretty good about the future.

Kevin O'hara

If we get into a special session, education is a legitimate issue.

Pat Egan

The hits were all legitimate. We did the best we could defensively.

Ashley Wilson

The whole issue of divesture is a legitimate policy issue. But this is not how I would have written it.

William Atwood

It basically reaffirmed the City Commission's ruling that we are the legitimate electric provider for Boulder Ridge.

Dan Sharp

There's a legitimate upgrade cycle coming. It's just getting started.

Erik Suppiger

I've never really had a solid, legitimate post game where I felt comfortable with my back to the basket. I could fake it, but my confidence wasn't that high. Now I'm getting it because I have something to work with.

Emeka Okafor

There is a legitimate fear on the part of some African-Americans that it is happening. I don't know of a place where this kind of demographic shift has ever occurred. It is a huge, huge shift.

Elliott Stonecipher

The Web pages look legitimate, but if you provide the personal information it is not going to go to the bank.

Ellen Wright

The workers are worried, with good cause. Their legitimate questions have to be answered.

Elio Di Rupo

Mr. Schulman absolutely denies he was involved in any kickback scheme and that any referral fees involved in his cases were 100 percent legitimate.

Edward Hayes

We want to ensure that PG&E pays all of the legitimate claims that it receives.

Fred Lee