Todd Akin (William Todd Akin) Quotes

By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.

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• By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.

  

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