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I believe that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act must be reformed. We must improve the American public's confidence in, and perception of, our national security programs, by increasing transparency, strengthening oversight, and safeguarding civil liberties.

~Dutch Ruppersberger

Topics: Act American Believe Civil Civil Liberties Confidence Foreign Improve Increasing Intelligence Liberties Must National National Security Our Oversight Perception Programs Public Reformed Safeguarding Security Strengthening Surveillance Transparency I Believe I Believe That

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Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.

~Ed Asner

Topics: Also Awful Based Cards Civil Civil War Earliest Feelings Got Political Some Spanish War Were

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In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

~Ed Balls

Topics: Back Bank Britain Civil Civil Service Consensus Conservative Conservative Party Economist England Gold Gold Standard Labour Labour Party Party Service Standard Strong Supported Times Very

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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.

~Ed Smith

Topics: Added Amendment Because Beyond Blacks Burden Civil Civil War Constitution Elevated End Expectations Many Reality Respects Segregation Some War

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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Any Any Circumstances Being Circumstances Civil Civil Society Departure Eminent Great Itself Justice Lies Policy Society Standing Suspicion

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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Capital Civil Graceful Nobility Order Ornament Polished Society

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Beneficial Circumstances Civil Color Distinguishing Effect Every Give Mankind Political Principle Reality Render Scheme

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Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or even by 'smoke signals' to gather the uprising against established political power.

~Eduardo Paes

Topics: Against Before Civil Civilization Created Discontented Established Even Gather Human Long Movements Old Political Political Power Power Riots Signals Smoke Twitter Uprising

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This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

~Edvard Munch

Topics: After Art Bourgeois Came Civil Dealer Following Frames French French Revolution Kind Large Painting Revolution Wars

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I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one.

~Edward Brooke

Topics: Am Civil Civil Rights Leader Profess Rights I Am

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