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Congress Quotes
Too much of the debate over immigration reform has ignored one of the greatest threats to our privacy. The proposed employer verification system would require Americans, regardless of citizenship, to get a 'permission slip to work' from the government. If Congress wants to reform immigration, then it should, but it shouldn't use this legislation as a clandestine means to subvert our constitutional right to privacy.
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Adaptation Quotes
To the casual observer, one of the most striking things about President Bush's State of the Union address was his wholesale adaptation of the Democratic Party's rhetoric regarding energy. Veterans on all sides of the energy debate in Washington cannot fail to detect a strong whiff of political cynicism in the air.
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Balanced Quotes
We need to let our people speak. We need to debate those issues and then we let the best ideas win, ... Right now, we believe the American people stand behind us. They want to see us preserve Social Security, they want us to keep the budget balanced and we're going to do our level best to do it.
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Authority Quotes
The government may intend the non-disclosure provision to serve some purpose other than the suppression of speech, ... Nevertheless, it has the practical effect of silencing individuals with a constitutionally protected interest in speech and whose voices are particularly important in an ongoing national debate about the intrusion of governmental authority into individual lives.
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Asked Quotes
We've had a stunning reversal in just a few weeks. We've gone from a situation in which we might have a long-overdue debate on deep poverty to the possibility, perhaps even the likelihood, that low-income people will be asked to bear the costs. I would find it unimaginable if it wasn't actually happening.
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Aim Quotes
What Gordon Brown has done is attempt to sabotage this report before it is even published. We should allow Lord Turner to present his report and then debate his findings in a proper and constructive way and a way that will try to aim for consensus, but that is not Gordon Brown's way of doing things.
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Assume Quotes
What's happening is that the two groups assume that the nature of the debate is really a matter of disagreement about their own sides' core issues. Each side is assuming that people in the other group oppose what they hold most dear to themselves - what's most important to their side - but in fact their adversaries really don't oppose them.
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Address Quotes
We think it's important to remember what happened on 9/11 as we devise policies to address what happened, ... is a good ad, laying out the challenges this country's been through. We've had tremendously positive feedback. We're happy with the debate that the ad started, and we want to continue that. That's sort of how we see that.
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Academic Quotes
Competitive debate builds confidence, improves academic achievement, and develops leadership skills. The Houston Urban Debate League is bringing competitive debate into more high schools across the city, and that is great news for our schools and for our community. With the HUDL leading the charge, Great Debaters will develop and thrive throughout Houston.
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Below Quotes
There was a lot of debate whether these jetties should have been built. It might have been better if they'd gone further north. There's a rock reef here about 12 feet below the surface, so there's no way to ever get a real deep channel here. When you have swells of 6 or 8 feet, you don't have enough water for safe passage. A little farther north, there are no rock reefs and they'd probably have had a safer channel.
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Aspect Quotes
There was a lot of debate about every aspect of the story to make sure we were balancing legitimate national security concerns with informing our readers about important things that were being done in their name by the government. There were a number of discussions with senior U.S. officials, and we had a number of discussions in the office over several days with Dana and her editors.