Quotes."Liberty in America can be enhanced by reinstating, legislatively, restraints upon the direction of our culture and morality. Censorship as an enhancement of liberty may seem paradoxical. Yet it should be obvious, to all but dogmatic First Amendment absolutists, that people forced to live in an increasingly brutalized culture are, in a very real sense, not wholly free." --Robert H. Bork in National Review, December 19 "I think we are welcomed. But it was not a peaceful welcome." --President George W. Bush, reflecting on the prediction that U.S. troops in Iraq would be "welcomed as liberators," NBC News NBC News (along with NBC News + HD) is the news division of American television network NBC, a part of NBC Universal, which is majority-owned by General Electric. Its current president is Steve Capus. It is the top-rated broadcast news division and has been for a decade. , December 12 "This is terrorism." -Saddam Hussein, on being deprived of shower and exercise facilities while in prison, quoted by the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. , December 7 "Disco at its best is a neurological event, a shamanistic sha·man·ism n. 1. The animistic religion of certain peoples of northern Asia in which mediation between the visible and spirit worlds is effected by shamans. 2. vehicle of space-time travel." --Camille Paglia in Salon, December 2 "You can always turn the television off and, of course, block the channels you don't want.... But why should you have to?" --Federal Communications Commission Since 2001 the Chairman has been ex officio the Minister for Home Affairs. External links
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