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Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America.

DeForest Soaries

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others.

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking.

We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.

B. F. Skinner

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The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.

We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing.