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If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.
He later (on 28 February 2002) paraphrased this statement in a pamplet: "If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Don't Own Anything!"
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If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Don't Own Anything!
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Never try to speak merely from notes unless you know your subject cold.
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When I die, bury me in Texas because I want to remain politically active.
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If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.
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Never rise to your feet without having given thought to what you are going to say.
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I don't know any other business that tells you not to go in and buy their product.
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There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.
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Copyright term extension has a simple but compelling enticement: it is very much in America's economic interests.
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If you design your own machine, you can't fuss at people, because you're one of just a few. How many Linux users are there?
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In a political struggle, never get personal else the dagger digs too deep. Your enemy today may need to be your ally tomorrow.
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I hope people will say I never had a hidden agenda, and I never played it cute around the turns, and that my integrity stayed intact.
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I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.
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As you construct your speech, never forget that this is not an exercise in personal indulgence; you are striving to make contact with your audience.
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When you use a prepared text, never, never, never speak those words without first making them your friends through constant and persistent attention.
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We want to tell American parents that they and they alone have total power to control every hour of television programming that comes into their home.
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You've already got a DVD. It lasts forever. It never wears out. In the digital world, we don't need back-ups, because a digital copy never wears out. It is timeless.
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The only group in America that ought to be the final arbiters, the only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing, and then judge its worth... are parents.
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I think lobbying is really an honest profession. Lobbying means trying to persuade Congress to accept your point of view. Sometimes you can give them a lot of facts they didn't have before.
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A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
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Born:
September 5, 1921
Died:
April 26, 2007
(aged 85)
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