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I think if the Patriot Act were in place in the summer of 2001 ... connecting the dots would have been so basic and easy and fundamental.

Debra Burlingame

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.

Jesse Ventura

The Patriot Act requires all financial institutions to set up identification procedures to protect our country from terrorism and money laundering.

Chris Hammond

We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are... being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about.

Gerald Nicosia

It provides more protections and important clarifications than the other bills that are being considered, ... But all the bills fall short of what is necessary to bring the Patriot Act back in line with the Constitution.

Lisa Graves

The changes made to the new version of the Patriot Act are merely cosmetic, and there is new material in it that makes it even worse than it was.

Nancy Murray

Congressman Conyers made clear when he voted against the Patriot Act that he opposes the tools in the bill that we have demonstrated are greatly assisting us in tracking terrorists and disrupting their activities.

Barbara Comstock

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

William Randolph

The government's success in preventing another catastrophic attack on the American homeland in the 20 months since September 11, 2001 would have been much more difficult, if not impossibly so, without the USA Patriot Act.

Jamie Brown

The most immediate concern we have is that if Congress passes the House version, our client could actually go to jail for participating in the Patriot Act debate.

Ann Beeson

The Patriot Act made it easier for you to identify the bank accounts.

Jerry Bernstein

I'm very patriotic. I'm an arch-patriot. When they play 'The Star Spangled Banner,' I get all choked up. I love my country.

Alec Baldwin

The Patriot Act was bad in 2001, and despite bipartisan calls for reform, it's still bad in 2005.

Lisa Graves

Four Corners Patriot Militia.

Mark Potok

[After that fight, Johnson told the Patriot News of Harrisburg, Pa., that several ex-teammates attacked him.] I was fighting about six-on-one, ... I was like a gladiator or something.

Howard Johnson

At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Mark Twain

A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Mark Twain

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Mark Twain

What could I do but go with them [Civil War soldiers], or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

Clara Barton

Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.

Olusegun Obasanjo

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

Thomas J. Jackson

It gives a nod toward checks and balances without fixing the most fundamental flaws in the Patriot Act.

Lisa Graves

I think the Patriot Act is unwise.

Sister Jean Abbott

It's fabulous, ... Clearly the judge recognized it was profoundly undemocratic to gag a librarian from participating in the Patriot Act debate.

Ann Beeson

The Patriot Act does not require that nuns' bank accounts be frozen. The Patriot Act has a lot of problems, but that's not one of them.

Chris Hansen

Elvis was a patriot.

Todd Morgan

The attorney general conceded that the Patriot Act isn't perfect, and that it can be changed without damaging law enforcement's ability to stop terrorists.

Gregory Nojeim

I know the Patriot Act is good for some reasons, but it oversteps its power in other areas. I think it needs to be reformulated.

Katie Hickson

Regardless of whether there was a massacre or not, (the battle) became a symbol to rejuvenate the Patriot cause.

Fritz Hamer

It certainly has. We're trying to recruit kids at the Patriot League, or NEC (Northeast Conference) level, and it hurts that we only play four conference games.

Jim Parady

For the students, it was not a question that we would win the Patriot League. For us, as players, we were like, ?Hold on!

Chris Mcnaughton

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

Frank Serpico

I think it's a great move for me, a great move for the organization, ... I'm just happy to be a New England Patriot.

Corey Dillon

I think George's film is a very courageous thing to do at this time. This idea that it's unpatriotic if you criticize our involvement in Iraq or the Patriot Act.

Shirley Wershba

It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.

Thomas Paine

A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.

Francois Fenelon

I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security.

Bill Owens