Boehner: The House Is Ready To Use Teeth With Russia

Speaker of the House, John Boehner (R-Ohio) told the Heritage Foundation Tuesday that if Russia doesn’t respect Democracy, the United States Congress should call it out and insist Russia reset its policies. (0:20)

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Senator Whitehouse: Social Security Creates Freedom

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) says that social security creates freedom in America because it saves seniors from poverty. (1:05)

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Chancellor Merkel Says U.S. And Germany Share Symbols Of Freedom

German Chancellor Angela Merkel describes in German the Liberty Bell in Berlin, and the few times it was rang. She then goes on to describe in English how the Liberty Bell in Berlin is similar to the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, saying that the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia is a "symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives." (0:33)
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Tiananmen Square Survivor Dr. Yang Jianli Asks For Truth

Jianli, a Tiananmen Square massacre survivor and former political prisoner, speaks about the foundation of freedom and truth (0:20).
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"Americans can't love losing freedom"

By Michael Ruhl, University of New Mexico – Talk Radio News Service

At the House Republican Conference Radio Row, Congressman Todd Akin (R-MO) spoke with Michael Ruhl about President Obama's budget, and how it takes freedom away from American citizens through over regulation and over taxation. He said that it shackles the country in "the gold chains of the welfare state". Akin said that the Obama administration wants to pass on debt to future generations, which he said would make ours the opposite of the greatest generation.

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Bush laments victims of tyranny

At a speech in front of the United States Agency for International Development, President Bush reflects on the victims of tyrannical governments he has met, among them: Blanca González, whose son Normando Hernández González is a political prisoner in Cuba, and Olga Kuzulina, whose father Alexander Kozulin is imprisoned in Belarus for running for president. (1:50)
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U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom discusses North Korea

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom discusses their evaluation of North Korea at a press conference at the National Press Club on Friday May 2nd, 2008. (0:44)
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Speaking with freed slaves in southern Sudan

Ellen Ratner describes the freeing of slaves on the border of Darfur. Some slaves are simply killed rather than sold, and even those that are freed often do not understand their freedom, not having known any other life. (1:52)
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Young people aren't being taught the country's founding principles, says Justice Kennedy

Justice Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court, testifying before a House Appropriations Committee hearing on the Supreme Court's budget request, says that we are in danger of having a generation of young people ignorant of our country's principles and history, and "you cannot preserve what you don't understand; you cannot defend what you do not know." (0:36)
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that if America does not stand for human rights, then nobody will

At the House Foreign Affairs Committee International Relations Budget Full Committee hearing on the "International Relations Budget for FY2009," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that if America does not stand for freedom and liberty, and the rights of the oppressed, and human rights, then nobody will. (:33)

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