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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. -- Mark Twain
The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born. -- Leo Tolstoy
The Patriot wears that mask EVERYWHERE! Even in the shower! -- Anderson Luis de Abreu Oliveira
It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot -- Ron Paul
After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act. -- Jim Gerlach
Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act. -- Aaron Swartz
I don't want to weaken the Patriot Act. I want to repeal it. -- Jon Tester
The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information. -- John Ashcroft
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -- Edward Abbey
You get changed by the Bill Belichick way, you get changed by the Patriot Way, -- Aaron Hernandez
The Patriot Act addresses various subjects. Some sections are beneficial and enhance our national security. -- Mike Honda
I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security. -- Bill Owens
I'm a big fan of historical fiction stuff. Historical battles - 'Gladiators,' 'The Patriot.' -- Andrew Luck
It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting. -- Trevor Noah
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. -- Bill Vaughan
The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home. -- Mike Pence
It is a very odd sort of Patriot that would destroy the First Amendment to protect the Second. -- Jerry Holkins
A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved. -- Mark Twain
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. -- Voltaire
One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act. -- Roger Wicker
They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution after the Reichstag Fire Decree. -- Sr?a Trifkovic
Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back? That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act? -- Ras Kass
The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing. -- Barton Gellman
The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us. -- George W. Bush
NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty. -- Michael Badnarik
The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
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
No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment. -- Peter Camejo
When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry. -- Ron Wyden
Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts. -- Roger Wicker
Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream. -- Bill Moyers
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
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
In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists. -- Mike Pence
In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists -- Mike Pence
I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution. -- Peter Camejo
I will also continue to strongly oppose any reauthorization of the Patriot Act that does not protect the rights and freedoms of law-abiding Americans with no connection to terrorism. -- Russ Feingold
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 walls between the various agencies. -- Robert Mueller
In terms of the Patriot Act, and all the other things he has pledged he would do, such as transparency in government,[Barack] Obama has reneged on his promises. -- Nat Hentoff
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 day that terrorists struck again. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
Marathon Day in Boston and all of Massachusetts, it's Patriot's Day, and it's a big celebration for us. It's a day when we're kind of the whole world's city there. -- Elizabeth Warren
Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult. -- Ernest Belfort Bax
By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act. -- John Ashcroft
We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about,. -- Gerald Nicosia
While the debate on the Patriot Act is far from over, it is important that all Americans continue in this dialogue and work together to ensure greater security for our nation. -- Jo Bonner
The Patriot Act [...] makes a mockery of the Sixth Amendment, which protects your right to a speedy and public trial, and your right to the assistance of counsel for your defense. -- Michael Badnarik
We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for. -- Aaron Swartz
Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice. -- Jesse Ventura
The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security. -- Jon Porter
Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain. -- Edward Snowden
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 to stop terrorists before they can act. -- Roger Wicker
Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from service providers - and not to tell you about it. -- Jonathan Zittrain
I suppose the Green Party doesn't care for the anti-civil libertarian provisions of the notoriously named Patriot Act, invading privacy, and being able to search your home, and not tell you for 72 hours. -- Ralph Nader
Growing up in Boston, I was always Matt, Son of Former New England Patriot Don. And then when my brother Tim was a senior in high school, I became Matt, Brother of Tim. -- Matt Hasselbeck
I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew. -- David R. Ellis
The Patriot Post not only does the best job of putting important news, policy and opinion in proper context, but also of cutting down to size the pompous praters and propagandists on the left. -- Lyn Nofziger
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 of Congress who voted for it should be indicted. -- Michael Badnarik
I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged. -- Gary Johnson
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 stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities. -- Jim Gerlach
The Patriot missile is a point defence missile. Point defence means that you put the missile at a location to defend a very specific target such as an airfield, a supply dump or a headquarters. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
Louis XVI started to die on June 21st 1791. For his flight tore away the veil of that false constitutional monarchy, and once more confronted the Patriot party with the whole problem of the revolution's future. -- Francois Furet
You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no. -- Hal Sparks
Patriotism can flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others. -- Johannes Rau
Ron Paul warned everyone that the Patriot Act could be used against innocent American citizens. His critics said he was siding with terrorists. Now, either A. Ron Paul was right. Or B. All Verizon users are terrorists. -- Jack Hunter
The Patriot Act has practically obliterated the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. It was supposed to be temporary, but there are so many things that the Government likes about the power that it gives, they keep renewing it. -- Kenneth Eade
The Patriot Act is ludicrous. Terrorists have proved that they are interested in total genocide, not subtle little hacks of the U.S. infrastructure, yet the government wants a blank search warrant to spy and snoop on everyone's communications. -- Kevin Mitnick
The Democrats were in the majority in the U.S. Senate when we voted for the Iraq war and passed the U.S. Patriot Act. It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something. -- Russ Feingold
I do think that when you go into red states, they're - so-called red states - I think they're troubled with certain excesses with respect to the Patriot Act, but they're also concerned with making sure we're secure against terrorism. -- Barack Obama
I spent seven years of my life in the immediate aftermath of September 11th doing this work, working with the Patriot Act, working with our law enforcement, working with the surveillance community to make sure that we keep America safe. -- Chris Christie
In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose Talents and Virtues will be admired By Grateful Posterity Long after this Marble shall have mouldered into Dust. -- Alexander Hamilton
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 reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights. -- Pete Stark
Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information. -- Roger Wicker
How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked. -- Rand Paul
Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us. -- Robert Mueller
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 America. And the United States Congress was right to renew the terrorist act -- the Patriot Act. -- George W. Bush
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 the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. -- L. Neil Smith
It's disingenuous and wrong to say that the attorney general's expanded powers in the Patriot Act come with adequate oversight by the courts, ... In reality, the most troubling provisions in the law make judges little more than rubber stamps in Justice Department investigations. -- Anthony Romero
Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot? Why, because being a God-fearing, self-reliant, freedom-loving American is a choice. Or we could be one of those government-dependent, Constitution-fearing socialists. That's the question, actually, the Founding Fathers asked. Are you a Loyalist or a Patriot? -- Matt Shea
In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it ... But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don't vote on this. -- Rand Paul
My work with Patriot Voices actually dovetails very well into the work I'm going to be doing with EchoLight. I'll be traveling around the country, doing a lot of radio interviews, a lot of media interviews, so I don't see that as all inconsistent. -- Rick Santorum
I would far rather over-estimate the threat [imposed by the Patriot Act] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and wake up one morning in a world where the 21st century's J Edgar Hoover has the power to blackmail anyone in America. -- Tim Lee
While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian. -- George Washington
I got a chiropractor to come along to the Patriot shoot, because they can actually stick you back together within 15 minutes. He spent a week and worked on the entire crew. All the stunt guys were like, 'Oh, fix my disc.' The guy's amazing. -- Mel Gibson
There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged. -- Rand Paul
The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits. -- John Perry Barlow
We are a nation of laws and liberties, not of a knock in the night. So it is time to end the era of John Ashcroft. That starts with replacing the Patriot Act with a new law that protects our people and our liberties at the same time. -- John F. Kerry
It really does seem that the Democrat's problem isn't that they're calling for timetables - it's that they're calling them 'timetables'. You're up against Bush and the Republicans - you've got to bring some zing. Don't call them timetables - call them 'Patriot Dates', 'Freedom Deadlines'... 'Glory Goals'. -- Jon Stewart
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 enough and exercise their liberties very lightly, never testing the boundaries. You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door. -- Joe Bageant
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool. -- John Dryden
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington
We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots. -- Charles Farrar Browne
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. -- William Randolph Hearst
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. -- Thomas Jefferson
There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag. -- Jesse Ventura
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. -- Calvin Coolidge
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. -- Elmer Davis
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.' -- Marilyn vos Savant
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! -- Thomas Jefferson
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. -- George William Curtis
He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. -- Theodore Roosevelt
My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. -- Abraham Lincoln
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. -- Mark Twain
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. -- Thomas Paine
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. -- Thomas Campbell
I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word. -- Al Sharpton
The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins. -- Clara Barton
John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy. -- Howard Dean
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. -- William Randolph Hearst
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. -- Gary Hart
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. -- Alexander Pope
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth. -- Stonewall Jackson
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead. -- Voltaire
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms! -- Robert Walpole
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 terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks. -- Chris Chocola
The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington. -- Malcolm X
We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly believe that our intelligence gathering tools must enable us to collect the information we need to protect the American people. -- John O. Brennan

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