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Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. I

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. – Paul Tsongas

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Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me. – Paul Tsongas

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Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium. – Paul Tsongas

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Im against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But its not just government bureaucrats. I dont like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either. – Gary Bauer

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The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, wed have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense. – William J. Clinton

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Most Americans arent the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right. – Joseph Sobran

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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. – John Maynard Keynes

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