Mike Lee Quotes

I tell the story of eight forgotten founders, people like Canassatego, an Iroquois Indian Chief, who taught Benjamin Franklin about federalism, about the idea that you can form a confederacy in which the central power has only limited powers and local control is retained.

Mike Lee

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PowerPeopleControlStoryYouTell

I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.

Andrew Davies

LoveGreatJobMeNobodyWould

Intelligence collection is not confined to the communications of adversaries or of the guilty. Rather, it's about gaining information otherwise unavailable that would help keep Americans safe and free.

Michael Hayden

IntelligenceFreeHelpInformation

There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.

Rosanna Arquette

GreatSoulWritingSingingProblem

I feel like I am campaigning door to door. You just can't step out of a band like Brooks & Dunn and assume that it is just going to be business as usual. You have to work it. It does feel like a campaign where you would have Obama, Romney, or Newt beating the bushes right now. That's what I'm having to do.

Ronnie Dunn

WorkBusinessI AmStepDoorYou

We have a lot of property and we take care of it mostly ourselves, so that's what I spend a lot of time doing, which I love because I'm outside.

Mary Decker

LoveTimeCareTake CareDoingTake

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

Mary Douglas

DayPresentHierarchyMuchReviled

The two years I spent solely writing for other people kind of took me away from myself.

LP

MyselfPeopleMeWritingKindTwo

I love singing all types of genres.

Lizz Wright

LoveSingingGenresI LoveTypes

In a country where Americans sense, quite genuinely, that their freedoms have been taken away by the government - as in the U.S. Patriot Act, as in NSA surveillance - people feel powerless.

Jay Parini

GovernmentPeopleFeelCountryAct

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

Jonathan Swift

JusticeCareDecisionsLawyersDone

You turn on the news, there're no facts anymore. 'Here's what's happening today,' and then you cut to thirty minutes of people in little boxes, little windows, telling you their opinions on it. It seems like all the news is going on in the ticker-tape on the bottom of the news. It's all opinion, it's all editorial.

Derek Cianfrance

TodayPeopleOpinionFactsYouNews

I don't want to be labeled one thing. My main thing I care about is being able to create the things I want to do with my friends, whatever platform that is.

Derek Waters

CareFriendsCreateWantWhatever

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