Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes

The Tunisian blogger and activist Sami Ben Gharbia has written passionately about how U.S. government involvement in grassroots digital spaces can endanger those who are already vulnerable to accusations by nasty regimes of acting as foreign agents.

Rebecca MacKinnon

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The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.

Jim Sensenbrenner

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The guitar l learned on was probably worth $4 or something, but it was priceless to me. It meant so much.

John McLaughlin

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I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

Robert Mapplethorpe

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It's been said that Generation X should get a life. Well, in 'Bottle Rocket,' they get a life of crime. Or at least try.

Jeff Giles

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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.

Steve Israel

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In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.

Ron Chernow

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I think Bob Dylan showed us that songs can rise to the level of literature, and he proved it over and over again. That's why they keep trying to get him a Nobel Prize for literature: because there is no Nobel Prize for songwriting.

Mary Gauthier

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Saddam, as most tyrants, was a total control freak. He wanted total control of his regime. Total control of the country. And to introduce a wild card like Al Qaeda in any sense was just something he would not do.

Bob Simon

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Seriously, I have the best fans ever.

Britney Spears

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You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.

Rickey Henderson

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My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky.

Janet Fitch

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