Patriot Quotes

Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists.

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.

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.