It does not have to be this way if informed voters within their states speak with the power of their vote.

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Most Chinese with any spending power to speak of already have mobiles and use them shamelessly, as anyone who has sat in a cinema in China can attest.

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In the winter, with no yard work to speak of you might have weeks of power low drain electronics.

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Mr. MARTIN: And we've got to be--speak truth to power, and that is the president has been pimping God with the faith-based initiative, because faith-based institutions have always been able to get federal dollars, except they had to abide by one very small, insignificant thing called the 1964 civil rights law.

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Filipino officers speak English, know and admire America, once the colonial power, and can bond with their comrades over beer and karaoke.

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As CNN's Candy Crowley pointed out Monday in an analysis: If Walker sidesteps a recall, it would speak to conservative's grassroots power, the waning power of unions -- which typically ally with Democrats -- and could further Romney's efforts in the state.

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Many of us have fled the same radical Islamists who are now here with the same anti-American agendas, and this democracy has given them the power to speak.

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At the same time, and I guess, you know, in support of the was he pushed a little bit argument, there is also - there's been a perception certainly among senators and congressmen who you speak to on Capitol Hill that Negroponte never quite managed to establish himself as a force to be reckoned with in Washington power circles.

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