I consider myself a patriot, but not for the traditional reasons. I'm just really passionate about apple pie.
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.
There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
I'm a patriot. I admire our military, their character, code of honor, belief systems.
I'm a huge patriot, and what holds a lot of value for me is to be part of Team U.S.A.
I'm a patriot... Like my late father who came here and served his country as a member of the U.S. Army.
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.
The Patriot Act addresses various subjects. Some sections are beneficial and enhance our national security.
No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.
A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.
I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security.
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.
Netanyahu has taken on the toughest job in the State of Israel, and as someone who truly gives of himself, I consider him a patriot.
NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.
The Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution after the Reichstag Fire Decree.
For me, the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that's what separates us from other countries.
Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back?
That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act?
On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first best country ever is at home.
So much of my development as a football player and as a man has been here in New England, and it's an honor to hopefully be able to finish my career here and be a Patriot for life.
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
I will not let the patriot act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged.
Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.
Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.
To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.
We have been through four and five generations of technology since the PATRIOT Act.
As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.
The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.
They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.
For me the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that’s what separates us from other countries.
I will continue to be critical of the system. Every honest patriot continues to fight against it.
I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.
While most know the young Stalin was a seminarian, few realize that he was also a Georgian patriot, a published romantic poet.
I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.
One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.
Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.
For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.
Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that.
Since 9/11, the U.S.A. Patriot Act has torn down the invisible wall that was perceived as preventing the FBI and CIA from sharing information.
I'm enough of a patriot to think that the American public makes good choices.
I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
It is a very odd sort of Patriot that would destroy the First Amendment to protect the Second.
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
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.
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else.
Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act.
From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.
Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.
The Republican game is hilariously transparent: if Obama doesn't shift to more muscular postures, he's not a patriot. If he does, he's a flip-flopper.
I was a federal prosecutor when we exercised powers under the Patriot Act or under the FISA court.
Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.
The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing.
A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.
From a constitutional point of view George W. Bush passing through the Patriot Act is no worse than Obama renewing it.
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