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" A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism. "
Government
Defense
Power
" But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government. "
Size
Government
Federal Government
" Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about. "
People
Talking
Know
" Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character. "
Pays
Character
Society
" I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom. "
Believe
I Believe
You
" I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care. "
Poor
Care
Health
" If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion. "
Supreme Court
Support
Opinion
" I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution. "
Problem
Problems
Consequences
" In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly. "
School
Monopoly
Mistake
" In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue. "
Public
Virtue
Interest
" I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape. "
System
Will
Where
" Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims. "
Power
Peace
Struggle
" There are no more liberals They've all been mugged. "
Mugged
Been
More
" There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now. "
Left
New
New York
" There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want. "
Way
American
Guns
" Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness. "
Oppression
Law
Liberty
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