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• Pot enables you to think clearly without any fear or any limits. It's a mind-expander, which is part of why it's illegal and why drugs like Vicodin are legal.

  Roseanne Barr

  Thinking, Drug, Mind

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

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• When it comes to morality, I'd rather have an unfaithful president like Bill Clinton, who tried to reform welfare, than a faithful George Bush who propagated an illegal war on the rest of the world. So that is where my morality stands.

  Steve Coogan

  War, Faithful, President

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• By characterizing the use of illegal drugs as quasi-legal, state-sanctioned, Saturday afternoon fun, legalizers destabilize the societal norm that drug use is dangerous. They undercut the goals of stopping the initiation of drug use to prevent addiction.... Children entering drug abuse treatment routinely report that they heard that 'pot is medicine' and, therefore, believed it to be good for them.

  Andrea Barthwell

  Fun, Children, Medicine

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• Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religious, Stupid, Teaching

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.73, Routledge

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• Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words I know, the more things I can think about. My vocab and thoughts grow together like the stem and petals of a flower. Reading was illegal because if you limit someone's vocab, you limit their thoughts. They can't even think of freedom because they don't have the language to.

  M. K. Asante

  Flower, Reading, Thinking

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• Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi's approach.

  Marsha Blackburn

  People, Effort, Amnesty

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• Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.

  Spencer Bachus

  Fall, College, Gambling

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• Straw purchasing is illegal.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Purchasing, Straws

  "Reps. Chaffetz & Quigley on 'Fast and Furious'". www.realclearpolitics.com. June 27, 2012.

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• China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are being killed for tiger bone wine. They're driving the tropical timber trade and illegal logging in Indonesia, and the trade in tropical reef fish.

  Mark Carwardine

  Wine, Rhinos, Issues

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• It is about time that we develop a worldwide strategy to reduce illegal trade in meth and its precursor chemicals and stop the devastating impact that methamphetamine use is having on our children and our communities.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Children, Impact, Community

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• After all these years, it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy, but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies, not the same lousy economy.

  Howie Carr

  Years, Numbers, Borders

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• I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.

  Juan Cole

  Believe, Law, Iraq

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• We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.

  Ken Calvert

  Government, People, Gone

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• I don't do things that are illegal.

  Patricia Cornwell

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• The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  Brain, Stewardship, Chemicals

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• I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Jury, Grand Jury, Felt

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• The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants.

  Nathan Deal

  Baby, Years, Immigration

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• The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.

  Norm Dicks

  Believe, Government, Competition

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• While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities.

  Elton Gallegly

  Strong, Illegal Activities, Law

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• Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

  Jack Abramoff

  Thinking, Tragedy, Wells

  "Jack Abramoff Calls D.C. Politics Dirty As Ever". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 18, 2011.

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• Follow me and do exactly what the song says
  Smoke weed, take pills, drop outta school, kill people
  And drink and jump behind the wheel like it was still legal.

  Eminem

  Weed, Song, School

  "Song: 'Role Model'". 1999.

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• Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.

  Frank Zappa

  Country, Iran, Politics

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• Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother.

  Lou Reed

  Mother, Politics, Congress

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.392, Da Capo Press

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• As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow.

  Virgil Goode

  Numbers, Focus, House

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• I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.

  Famke Janssen

  Illegal Things, Two, People

  "Famke Janssen and Bringing Up Bobby". Interview with Nicki Richesin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 19, 2012.

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