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As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

George Washington

Instead of granting the most basic of protections to thousands of California families, Gov. Schwarzenegger has chosen to protect the anti-gay special interests that control the Republican Party.

John Marble

Our trade negotiators are pushing a plan that would undermine the forest protections that U.S. citizens fought so hard to obtain.

Patti Goldman

There are protections now through some laws to make sure that people are safe, coming and going, from reproductive health providers.

Karen Pearl

We need something. There are bills that would totally lift the moratorium and the lease sale area has always been problematic. This bill greatly expands protections that Florida and the rest of the country currently has in place and also addresses the problems of the existing 90 or so leases.

Karen Wayland

War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections.

Joseph Sobran

It is worth looking at the current requirements and asking ourselves, in light of the experience with Hurricane Katrina, with an entire health-care system going down: Are there better protections that could be put in place for that kind of phenomenon?

Thomas Hamilton

(The agreement) provides reasonable protections for the university. We have every reason to believe that coach Davis will continue to carry himself with class and dignity.

Chris Reynolds

We are doing nothing more than giving out gifts to corporate and insurance industries once again, while cheating our constituents out of the right to protections.

Rep. Susan Bucher

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

We came through and made a big block on a punt and scored off of that. We've got to do a better job ourselves of kick coverage, punt protections and extra points.

Ken Adams

We hope that this is finally the year that the House will stand up and join the Senate to give Missouri consumers and small businesses protections for not only cell phones, but for fax machines, too.

Scott Holste

We recognize the need for liability protections to get the industry into the game, but we're uncomfortable with the breadth of the liability protections and the fact that they are not balanced by an appropriately strong compensation program.

Jeffrey Levi

The history of electronic technology has been that once a new capability emerges, someone finds ways to go around ... protections - in this case potentially avoiding payment to authors. I can't believe that, if [Google] were to go ahead with this, that someone, somewhere wouldn't find a way to illegally exploit it.

Michael Gorman

It's more the home user who is at risk. They're the ones who most likely won't update their protections on a regular basis.

Fred Moore

Our starting position is we only add to directives in circumstances that not doing so would undermine existing protections. We have a philosophy that is set against gold plating.

Rob Mcivor

That's the tool that adds something to the protections for the whales.

Bob Lohn

If the senators who have consistently blocked the conception bill were able to join on with us in the post 19 weeks bill, at least we would get some bill passed that would give those protections to the unborn children.

Mike O'dell

You've got a lot of House members that are adamant about wanting to move forward with drilling, period, and that is a concern. We've got to do something that is realistic and will give Florida protections, but we're aware of the climate we're in as well.

Kara Borie

All the protections are truly in place for this group of people.

Peter Ashkenaz

This puts in place a number of consumer protections that give people an opportunity to take a break from the treadmill of debt they get locked into with payday loans.

Tom James

The administration is trying to do through rule making what they have been unable to do through legislation, which is weaken the protections off Florida's coasts against drilling.

Mark Ferrulo

If you did that, you undermine basic environmental protections.

Bill Wolfe

This bill will only serve to undercut important safety protections and place foreign price controls on American businesses. We all want cheaper drugs, but not at any cost.

Michael Burgess

They are very cooperative. They came back with some alternatives. Still, I have more favorable terms from BMS - their premiums are less, there are more protections in place.

Melody Ryland

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

Mark Twain

For private to private sellers, there aren't a lot of protections. If the problem continues to be as large as it is, there's going to have to be laws put in place.

Cleo Manuel

There were some games that things weren't working very well, we weren't getting the protections, and we had to be a little bit more conservative. But there were times I felt we could have opened it up a little bit more.

Jay Fiedler

In health insurance, what you're seeing is employers having to offer less rich benefits -- higher deductibles, higher copays -- to keep the premiums in moderation so they can at least offer them some kind of protections.

Bob Bishop

Has an extensive bill of rights, individual protections for all individuals. It has freedom of speech rights, freedom of religion rights.

Sean Hannity

Dale brings incredible passion and a formidable base of knowledge to this role. We are fortunate to have her vision and leadership as we work to educate Californians about the cost of marriage discrimination and how a repeal of domestic partnership protections would hurt California families.

Geoff Kors

These are strong new protections for consumer privacy.

Michael Oxley

It's reassuring that constitutional protections that we are all entitled to as citizens were confirmed. And we look forward to meeting our client.

Donna Newman

To further strengthen the protections that we have put in place to guard against fraud and abuse, we are asking that agencies operate under pre-hurricane levels unless they can justify to us that there are exceptional circumstances.

Clay Johnson Iii

This worm is over a year old, so anyone that's updated their virus protections in the last year will be protected.

Graham Cluley

Under Illinois law, these captive customers are entitled to regulated rates and consumer protections that have been in place for almost a century.

Lisa Madigan

Gov. Bush's aggressive efforts to protect Florida's coast led to the protection we currently have. I think most people agree we need him once again to go to the mat on this issue if we're going to win some meaningful protections.

Mark Ferrulo

One of the most important protections we have as citizens is the right to decide how we want to use our property. I don't think a park owner should act to abridge those rights that are constitutionally inherent to each person.

Leon Drolet

We need to watch film as a group more. We need to learn our plays a lot better and learn the protections. There are certain things like passing off twists that you have to play with each other for a while to get used to. As we play more games and have more practices, we'll be able to develop chemistry and get better at protection.

Immanuel Hutcherson

Congress was willing to set guard dogs -- paid by the government -- around anything that private industry could come up with to protect works even if those protections were excessive.

Jonathan Zittrain

It does offer us the job protections that have eluded us since this merger was announced.

Gary Richardson

Without these protections, it is likely that many of the advances of the past few decades would be wiped out by new barriers to voting.

Laughlin Mcdonald

I know the protections a little bit better, know the routes a little bit better, know my reads a little bit better. That all helps.

Adrian Mcpherson

They want more. They're a corporate bully. They want our lunch money, our futures, our job protections.

Karen Schultz

Work was in progress to implement some of these protections.

Joe Main

He has a clear and consistent stand that reproductive rights must be maintained through legal protections and legislative advocacy. We know where he stands.

Joann Smith

We feel like we contributed to important improvements in the program in terms of a couple of hundred thousand people being able to retain their medical care and (for those on the program) to be able to retain all their important due process protections.

Ted Carey

A successful democracy gives people a chance to protect their interests and lifestyles. But when these protections try to deny unalterable economic realities, they become self-defeating.

Robert Samuelson

Every American child deserves the strongest protections from some of this country's most horrifying crimes.

Judy Shepard

Lesbian and gay Nebraskans understand that getting rid of this law won't help their families get protections immediately. But it will at least allow them to begin talking to lawmakers about their families and how they are harmed when treated like legal strangers.

Amy Miller

The urban growth boundary has never been the driver of housing costs. What this bill does is promote irresponsible development. If housing is expensive, then you eliminate all protections against irresponsible development.

Aaron Ostrom

Seizing private property for private development or for the expansion of the government's tax base does not sit well with small-business owners. NFIB will continue to work closely with the Legislature to implement protections for private-property owners.

Allen Douglas

You know darn well that the president doesn't have a clue what new source review is. It's clear that there's a coordinated effort between the White House and Congress to put key environmental protections on the chopping block.

Frank O'donnell

This is one of the worst things the Senate has ever done. On the back of a cocktail napkin they have tossed aside protections of individual liberty that have been in existence for centuries.

Gita Gutierrez