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(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 Clinton

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

- Claude Debussy

The GOP was the party of Joe McCarthy. . . . Now, though, it is the Democrats who . . . stifle debate and smother thought.

- Bill Bennett

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

- William Moulton Marston

The 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 Hastert

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 Frame

They 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 Frame

Everywhere 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'Connor

Written reports stifle creativity.

- Ross Perot

From 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 Robinson

Everywhere I go I`m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don`t stifle enough of them.

- Allen Jost

One of my other pet causes is preventing basically Democrats from putting price controls on drugs because that`s going to stifle research.

- Ambesse Tolossa