Adam Cohen Quotes
The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.
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The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
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I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.
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The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
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In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
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Representative Willis has introduced a bill, modeled after a Chicago law, to hold gun stores accountable for flooding our streets with weapons. Thousands of guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department can be traced back to just a handful of stores.
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No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.
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I think the over-militarization of local police forces is also true of the over-militarization of the federal government, so I don't really run and hide from the comment that I think there are 48 federal agencies that have SWAT teams.
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
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A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
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There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process.
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While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.
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Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.
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The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.
