(July 3, 2007) I believe that presidential pardon authority is available to any president, and almost all presidents have exercised it. This (the Libby decision) was clearly an effort to protect the White House. ... There isn`t any doubt now, what we know is that Libby was carrying out the implicit or explicit wishes of the vice president, or maybe the president as well, in the further effort to stifle dissent.
- Hillary Rodham ClintonI love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
- Claude DebussyThe GOP was the party of Joe McCarthy. . . . Now, though, it is the Democrats who . . . stifle debate and smother thought.
- Bill BennettMost of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.
- William Moulton MarstonThe federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.
- Dennis HastertDivisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one`s need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
- Janet FrameThey meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one`s need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
- Janet FrameEverywhere I go I`m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don`t stifle enough of them. There`s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
- Flannery O'ConnorWritten reports stifle creativity.
- Ross PerotFrom day one I had to arrive at a point where I burst into tears, could not contain them, had to try to stifle them, and that`s not easy to do. Once we were on track I needed to go only to the places of pain, remembered pain, experienced pain and the tears would come, really at will.
- Tom RobinsonEverywhere I go I`m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don`t stifle enough of them.
- Allen JostOne of my other pet causes is preventing basically Democrats from putting price controls on drugs because that`s going to stifle research.
- Ambesse Tolossa