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Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.
– David Allan Coe
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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
– Bertrand Russell
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Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.
– Harry Browne
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Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
– Coretta Scott King
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Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.
– John Ralston Saul
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For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
– Muqtada al Sadr
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For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
– Nelson Mandela
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For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.
– Lauryn Hill
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For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.
– John Charles Polanyi
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
– Barack Obama
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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
– Alice Walker
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Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
– Desmond Tutu
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
– Alfred Adler
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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
– Charles Horton Cooley
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Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
– Milton Friedman
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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
– Demosthenes
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Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.
– Christopher Dodd
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Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.
– Carrie-Anne Moss
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Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.
– Javier Bardem
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Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.
– Ellen DeGeneres
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Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
– William Lloyd Garrison
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Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.
– Mira Nair
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
– Will Durant
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
– The Dalai Lama
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China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.
– Ai Weiwei
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Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
– Anna Quindlen
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Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.
– Tony Campolo
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Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
– Ernestine Rose
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
– Natan Sharansky
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But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical he has no freedom.
– Buddy Rich
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But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.
– Esther Dyson
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But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.
– Jane Campion
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But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem.
– Jean Claude Van Damme
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But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.
– Rick Perry
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
– Wendell Willkie
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But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
– Kate Adie
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But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
– Anita Roddick
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But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.
– Boris Johnson
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But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.
– Demetri Martin
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But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.
– Lucy Stone
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Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.
– Peter Singer
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Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.
– Peter Singer
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Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.
– Hillary Clinton
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Bondage is of the mind freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
– Ramakrishna
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Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.
– Natan Sharansky
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Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.
– Milos Forman
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Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!
– Sylvia Kristel
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Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.
– Ron Paul
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At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.
– Kristi Yamaguchi
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As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
– Pythagoras
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As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.
– Jasper Johns
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As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
– Arnold J. Toynbee
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As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home where there were a lot of rules. I didn't have 'yes' parents.
– Emmanuelle Chriqui
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
– Barry White
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As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.
– Allen West
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Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny democracy, not dictatorship the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
– Tony Blair
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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
– Jeanette Winterson
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Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
– Steve Wozniak
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And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.
– David Icke
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And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
– Camille Paglia
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And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.
– John Boehner
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And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.
– Mitt Romney
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Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
– Hedy Lamarr
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Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
– Sigmund Freud
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An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.
– George Soros
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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
– Haruki Murakami
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Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.
– Ron Wyden
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American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.
– Todd Gitlin
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America, to me, is freedom.
– Willie Nelson
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America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.
– John Doolittle
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America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
– Brent Scowcroft
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All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.
– Michelangelo Antonioni
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All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.
– Ahmed Ali
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All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.
– Conrad Black
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All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.
– Steven Hatfill
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All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.
– Jim Ramstad
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After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.
– George Pataki
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A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.
– Jerzy Kosinski
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A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.
– Kurt Huber
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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
– Roald Dahl
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A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
– Neil Gaiman
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A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.
– George H. W. Bush
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A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
– Kemal Ataturk
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A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.
– Greg Walden
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A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.
– Neal Boortz
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
– Dan Rather
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A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
– Lawrence Lessig
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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
– Bodhidharma
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137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
– Doc Hastings
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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
– John Adams
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Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
– John Quincy Adams
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I don't have to 'freedom-kiss' my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.
– Woody Allen
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It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
– David Allen
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Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom.
– Robert G. Allen
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
– Hannah Arendt
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America is committed to seeing civil liberties protected as a shield for freedom-loving people, not as a sword for freedom-loathing people.
– John Ashcroft
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We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.
– Mahmoud Abbas
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This was a man who - from the prison of his own leg-braces - championed global freedom. In the largest sense, Roosevelt understood that if this earth is to prosper and thrive, all people must have access to the promise.
– Abdallah II
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A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and errors.
– Charles Abrams
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What Section 907 [of the Freedom Support Act] means to Azerbaijan is that we are the only country among the 15 Republics of the former Soviet Union which is being deprived of direct U.S. assistance. For instance, the Armenian government gets approximately $100 million each year from the United States. Our government receives nothing.
– Ilham Aliyev
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