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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, January 20, 1961

"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, May 2014

"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, May 2014

"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, October 28, 1980

"Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense."
- Pres. Ronald Reagan, January 25, 1984

"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, March 26, 2004

"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

"I think you have to renew the spirit of liberty and build on it and improve on it."
- Ron Paul, August 3, 2014

"One of the best inoculators against terrorist infiltration is a society in which everybody feels as if they have a stake in the existing order and they feel that their grievances can be resolved through political means rather than through violence."
- Pres. Barack Obama, August 6, 2014

"...absolute monarchs will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but for the purposes and objects merely personal, such as thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans."
- John Jay, November 7, 1787

"No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. "
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol II (1840)

"All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. "
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol II (1840)

"'Vote early and vote often,' the advice openly displayed on the election banners in one of our northern cities. "
- William Porcher Miles, in a Congressional speech, March 31, 1858

"People spend twice as much on candy for Halloween than they did for the elections. "
- Peyton Craighill, on the campaign financing "problem". C-SPAN, November 9, 2014

"Long shots can change when people hear the ideas and your vision for the future. "
- Bernie Sanders, C-SPAN Newsmakers, November 9, 2014

"Any revolution anywhere in the world in the history of time, in the beginning, seemed hopeless. "
- David Letterman, November 13, 2014

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! "
- Emma Lazarus, from the sonnet, "The New Colossus", 1883

"If you still believe the same thing you believed 15 years ago, then you're a joke, you're a fossil. "
- Malcolm Gladwell, November 2014

"[In 2014] the economy improved and Washington had nothing to do with it — other than getting out of the way. "
- Major Garrett, CBS News; December 21, 2014

"With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. "
- Dr. Martin Luther King, August 28, 1963

"Our government must be fundamentally reformed. "
- Carly Fiorina, January 24, 2015

"Are the American people fit to govern themselves, to rule themselves, to control themselves? I believe they are. "
- Theodore Roosevelt, March 12, 1912

Should parents be able to make the choice about measles vaccinations for their own kids?
"This is a purely medical issue. Certainly you have to respect the parents and their need to do what's best for their children, but we hope that they make that decision based on solid scientific evidence ... there is a very, very safe vaccine [for measles]. "
- Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, February 12, 2015

"What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today? Answer: Dissatisfaction with government. "
- Top answer from an open-ended question asked of the American people; Gallup, March 5-8, 2015

"[A house] built by corrupt builders is more likely to fall when it is stressed... "
- Manual of Structural Engineering and Earthquake Code Compliance, 1988