Patriot Quotes

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.

Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.

After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.

To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.

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.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of people think, on false pretenses, and definitely post the Patriot Act, there are a lot of these questions about what can we do to our citizens in order to prevent the next attack.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that.

I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.

One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.

John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.

The Patriot Act addresses various subjects. Some sections are beneficial and enhance our national security.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

Barack Obama is an economic patriot.

No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

While the debate on the Patriot Act is far from over, it is important that all Americans continue in this dialogue and work together to ensure greater security for our nation.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.