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In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

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Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? ↗

— Dennis Prager

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There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense. ↗

— Jeanette Rankin

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Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society. ↗

— Mike Rogers

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The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough. ↗

— Mike Rogers

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With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy. ↗

— Michael Johns

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Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life. ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

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As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

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The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society. ↗

— John Paul Stevens

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That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force. ↗

— Danny Boyle

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