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• I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will look into the powers the police already have to force the removal of face coverings and balaclavas.

  Theresa May

  Police, Covering, Looks

  "Police may be given new powers after cuts protest, says home secretary". www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2011.

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• We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.

  Michael Nutter

  Assault Weapons, Needs, Magazines

  Michael A. Nutter (2017). “Mayor: The Best Job in Politics”, p.86, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union.

  Conan O'Brien

  Moving, People, Cleveland

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• The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Country, Government, Law

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• I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

  Barack Obama

  Marriage, Gay, Defense

  "Barack Obama in His Own Words". Book edited by Lisa Rogak, 2007.

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• If my mother were running for president and talked about a Muslim ban, I'd call her a bigot. If my mother claimed she didn't know who David Duke was when I knew she did, I'd say that's disqualifying. If my mother called an Indiana judge a Mexican, I would say that's a bigoted remark.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Mother, Running, Judging

  Source: wwd.com

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• I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.

  Steve Israel

  Christmas, Frustration, Light

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• I support workplace clean air. But a federal ban on smoking would mean that you couldn't smoke in your own home. I don't care what people do in their home.

  Mike Huckabee

  Mean, Home, Air

  "Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee on the campaign trail". Interview with Hugh Hewitt, www.hughhewitt.com. October 31, 2007.

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• Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Gun, America, Fundamentals

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• Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.

  John Boehner

  People, Broken, Listening

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• I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year.

  Carly Fiorina

  Opportunity, Thinking, Years

  "Battle for the Senate on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and the like. There will be enormous ramifications across the beef industry generally as a result of the Government's decision to ban all exports to all of the abattoirs in Indonesia.

  Julie Bishop

  Government, Decision, Beef

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Use, Antibiotics, Health Professionals

  "Eating animals is making us sick" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.cnn.com. October 28, 2009.

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• No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.

  Judy Biggert

  Children, Issues, Age

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• I supported the assault weapon ban.

  Mitt Romney

  Assault Weapons, Weapons, Assault

  'Meet The Press' with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. December 16, 2007.

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• My advice would be to whoever is going after judges by name, whether it's the president or anybody else, I think it's a terrible idea. I don't think it's a very smart thing to do a Muslim ban.

  Alex Kozinski

  Smart, Thinking, Names

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Struggle, Native American, Rights

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• There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.

  Satyajit Ray

  Pakistan, Gone, Half

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.101, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The answer is for all of us to create our own systems, our own ideas, because vibrant independent ideas will trump this corporate, plastic Borg, this brainwashing they're trying to push. I mean, banning 'father' and 'mother,' banning the word 'husband' and 'wife,' I mean that's so cultic that if I'd of been told ten years ago they were gonna ban words like that, I wouldn't have believed it. They do it with straight faces. I mean, has the left, and of course the controlled-right as well, have they gone collectively insane on a control-freak bent? Or, is there a strategy?

  Alex Jones

  Mother, Husband, Father

  Source: noworldorder.com

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• [Bob Ferguson] won that huge ruling against the first version of the Muslim ban that resulted in it being stopped dead in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

  Rachel Maddow

  Ferguson, Bob, Firsts

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If a bill to ban handguns came to the house floor, I would vote for it.

  Pete Stark

  Gun, House, Bills

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• We have to start with a ban on the manufacturing and import of handguns. From there we register the guns which are currently owned, and follow that with additional bans and acquisitions of handguns and rifles with no sporting purpose.

  Major Owens

  Gun, Rifles, Acquisition

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• Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Real, Moving, Gun

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• Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to use the language that was spoken during the period, for I refuse to whitewash history. The language was painful and life was painful for many African Americans, including my family. I remember the pain.

  Mildred D. Taylor

  Pain, Book, African American

  Mildred D. Taylor (2001). “The Land”, p.17, Penguin

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• According to what we've been seeing recently in the area where the terrorists control, where they ban people from going to schools, ban young men from shaving their beards, and women have to be covered from head to toe, and let's say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.

  Bashar al-Assad

  School, Men, People

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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