Best Patriot Act Quotes
60 Patriot Act quotes by 47 unique authors
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It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would have…
— Julian Sanchez
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One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.
— Roger Wicker
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Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution…
— Butch Otter
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Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies…
— Roger Wicker
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We all deserve credit for this new surveillance state that we live in because we the people voted for the Patriot Act. Democrats and Republicans…
— Stephen Colbert
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In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same…
— Jim Sensenbrenner
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The Patriot Act has increased the flow of information within our government and it has helped break up terrorist cells in the United States of…
— George W. Bush
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People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the…
— Robert Muller
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The Patriot Act is the most egregious piece of legislation to ever leave Congress since the Alien and Sedition Acts, John Ashcroft and every member…
— Michael Badnarik
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Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what…
— Chris Chocola
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In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of people think, on…
— Gideon Raff
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Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to…
— Jim Gerlach
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Suspicionless surveillance has no place in a democracy. The next 60 days are a historic opportunity to rein in the NSA, but the only one…
— Edward Snowden
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I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.
— Penn Jillette
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Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence…
— Robert Muller
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I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.
— Karl Rove
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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
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that…
— L. Neil Smith
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Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will…
— Pete Stark
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After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001,…
— Naomi Wolf
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This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.
— Neil Young
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If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably…
— Joe Bageant
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It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are…
— Paula Poundstone
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To be patriotic is to be able to question government policy in times of crisis. To be patriotic is to stand up for the Bill…
— Sami Al-Arian
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The Patriot Act is certainly a concern; all of those things are dangerous. I think more important than me preaching is that we as a…
— George Clooney
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