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We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs.

Atifete Jahjaga

Government, People, Democracy

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I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money.

Birch Bayh

Thinking, People, Gains

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How much greater would their contributions to the U.S. economy be if U.S. copyright owners could access foreign markets otherwise dominated by pirate product?

Howard Berman

Pirate, Economy, Owners

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Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.

James Lee Burke

Running, Home, Writing

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The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.

Joe Baca

Hurt, Majority, Legal System

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While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.

Maria Bartiromo

Jobs, Data, News

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Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.

Phil Bredesen

Doctors, Heartache, Cost

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Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.

Spencer Bachus

Fall, College, Gambling

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Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of 'health insurance,' which now includes free access to sterilization, contraception, and certain abortifacients such as the morning-after pill.

John Cornyn

Morning, Thinking, Obamacare

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Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

Lincoln Chafee

Quality, Reform, Care

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Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.

Lincoln Chafee

Children, College, Quality

"Lincoln Chafee DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

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It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up.

Maria Cantwell

Wall, Government, Acting

"Wall Street Has a Gambling Problem" by Sen. Maria Cantwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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You can disseminate your art, and it's all such easy access now. The upside to it is that more people are creating than ever before.

Stanley Clarke

Art, Creating, People

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That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.

Stephen Cambone

Different, World, Information

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Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.

Vince Cable

Choices, Competition, Needs

"Vince Cable launches £110m loan scheme aimed at small firms" by Patrick Collinson, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.

Diana DeGette

Creating, Essentials, Saving

"Tearing Down the Barriers to Competition" by Diana DeGette, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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What's interesting about Twitter and the influencers that someone follows - like, say, Shaquille O'Neal - is that they see someone who is using the exact same tools that they have access to, and I think that inspires this hope to be able to really engage with someone like him.

Jack Dorsey

Thinking, Interesting, Inspire

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I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

Arne Duncan

Technology, Thinking, Important

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People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

Daniel Ek

People, World, Want

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We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.

Jan Egeland

Agency, People, Population

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Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

Jo Ann Emerson

Economic Value, Iran, Oil

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The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.

Joseph Fiennes

Character, Skills, Experts

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Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one.

Shawn Fanning

Media, Space, People

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People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.

John Goodman

People, Population, Poor

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You can't take a congressman to lunch for $25 and buy him a hamburger or a steak or something like that. But you can take him to a fundraising lunch and not only buy him that steak, but give him $25,000 extra and call it a fundraiser. And have all the same access and all the same interactions with that congressman.

Jack Abramoff

Lunch, Giving, Hamburgers

"Jack Abramoff: The lobbyist's playbook". Interview with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. July 9, 2012.

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