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Protect those who protect you.

People protect what they love.

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.

If we're going to have the view that we're going to protect everyone in this society equally, we have to mean it.

The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

The people that I represent in Illinois care passionately about protecting open space and safeguarding our nation's natural treasures, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.