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My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.

- Camille Paglia

We believe that is our job to give readers what, not only what they need, but what they want. And it is our best hope that we can create a community conversation. Without community conversation, we`re Baghdad. And we`re very much in favor of the future of democracy.

- Ellen Foley

So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.

- Alan Burton

Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush.

- Alfred Hamilton Barr