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This Whole Sort Of 'war On Women' Sort Of Thing, I'm Scratching My Head Because If There Was A War On Women, I Think They Won.

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I Would Never Belong To Any Club That Excluded Anybody For Race.

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African American

To Understand How Republicans Lost The African American Vote, We Must First Understand How We Won The African American Vote.

African American

If Senator Rubio Were Doing His Job And In Congress More, He Might Know That The Program 'phone Records Of A Potential Terrorist Cause' Continues. It's Been Ongoing For The Last Six Months. So The Paris Tragedy, This Tragedy Happened While We Were Still Doing Bulk Collection, All Bulk Collection. Also In France, They Have A Program A Thousand-fold More Invasive, Collecting All Of The Data Of All Of The French.

You Know, You Look At Term Limits, You Poll Term Limits, 70, 80 Percent Of Republicans Or Democrats Are For It.

The Great And Abiding Lesson Of American History, Particularly The Cold War, Is That The Engine Of Capitalism - The Individual - Is Mightier Than Any Collective.

We Shouldn't Have A Program Where We Just Say That We're Going To Take Care Of The World's Refugees. Nobody In The Middle East Is Doing Anything. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait - All The Gulf Nations Are Doing Nothing.

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The Problem Or The Fundamental Flaw Of Obamacare Was That They Put Regulations On The Insurance, About 12 Regulations, Which Increased The Cost Of The Insurance. And So President Obama Wanted To Help Poor, Working-class People, But He Actually Hurts Them By Making The Insurance Too Expensive To Want To Buy. I Had Someone At The House Just Recently Was Doing Some Work, And He Said: "oh, My Son Doesn't Have Insurance, He's Paying The Penalty Because It's Too Expensive."

I Have Allowed The President To Pick His Political Appointees…but I Will Not Sit Quietly And Let Him Shred The Constitution.

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I Think If We Ban Certain Religions, If We Censor The Internet, I Think That At That Point The Terrorists Will Have Won.

Freedom Of Speech

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You Can Send A Clear Message To The Establishment

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The Republican Promise Is For Policies That Create Economic Growth. Republicans Believe Lower Taxes, Less Regulation, Balanced Budgets, A Solvent Social Security And Medicare Will Stimulate Economic Growth.

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We Had People Coming To Our Foreign Relations Committee And Saying, "oh, We Need To Arm The Allies Of Al Qaida." They Are Still Saying This. It Is A Crazy Notion. This Is The Biggest Debate We Should Be Having Is Is Regime Change A Good Idea; Has It Been A Good Idea.

I Don't Want To Live In A Nanny State Where People Are Telling Me Where I Can Go And What I Can Do.

The Callous Use Of General Warrants And The Disregard For The Bill Of Rights Must End. Forcing Us To Choose Between Our Rights And Our Safety Is A False Choice And We Are Better Than That As A Nation And As A People.

The 11 Million, I Think, Are Never Going Home, Don't Need To Be Sent Home, And I Would Incorporate Them Into Our Society By Giving Them Work Visas And Making Them Taxpayers.

Republicans Who Criticize The Use Of Two Languages, I Think, Make A Great Mistake.

There Are Still People - The Majority On The Stage, They Want To Topple [bashar] Assad. And Then There Will Be Chaos, And I Think Isis Will Then Be In Charge Of Syria.

What Most Americans Don't Realize Is There Is An Unholy Alliance. They Come Together. There's A Secret Handshake. We Spend More Money On Everything. And We Are Not Stronger Nation If We Go Further Into Debt. We Are Not Projecting Power From Bankruptcy Court.

On The Gang Of Eight Bill, There Was No Provisions Really For Extra Scrutiny Or Safety For Refugees. At The Time The Bill Came Up, Two Iraqi Refugees Came To My Home Town, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Their Fingerprints Were On A Bomb From Iraq. They Were In The Database, But We Didn't Pick Them Up.

Any Time Someone Tries To Tell You That Metadata Is 'meaningless, Don't Worry, It's Just Who You Call, It's Just Phone Records, It's Not A Big Deal' - Realize We Kill People Based On Metadata. So They Must Be Pretty Darn Certain That They Think They Know Something Based On Metadata.

I Don't Know About [rex] Tillerson, But I Do Know That John Bolton Doesn't Get It. He Still Believes In Regime Change. He's Still A Big Cheerleader For The Iraq War. He's Promoted A Nuclear Attack By Israel On Iran. He Wants To Do Regime Change In Iran. So, I Think John Bolton Is So Far Out Of It And Has Such A Naive Understanding Of The World. If He Were To Be The Assistant Or The Undersecretary For Tillerson, I'm An Out Automatic No On Bolton.

We Do Not Project Power From Bankruptcy Court. We're Borrowing A Million Dollars A Minute.

If Our Freedom Is Taken, The American Dream Will Wither And Die.

The Republican Party's History Is Rich And Chock Full Of Emancipation And Black History.

If You're White And You're Rich In The Usa, If You Get Busted For Drugs, You Get A Good Attorney, And You In All Likelihood Serve No Time. But If You're Poor, Black, Hispanic, Or Poor And White For That Matter, You Can Get Put In Jail.

If I Had Been Told To Get Out Of The Street As A Teenager, There Would Have Been A Distinct Possibility That I Might Have Smarted Off. But, I Wouldn’t Have Expected To Be Shot.

The Other Thing I Said Is The Great Irony Is You Will Be Back Fighting Against Your Own Weapons. Had [bashar] Assad Been Bombed When He Used Chemical Weapons Two Years Ago, Isis Would Be In Charge Of All Of Syria Now.

The Republican Party Is An Empty Vessel Unless We Imbue It With Values.

I Think There's A Racial Outcome To A Lot Of What Goes In America, But I Don't Think Race Is Always The Reason.

Republicans Traditionally Say, 'oh, We'll Cut Domestic Spending, But We Won't Touch The Military.' The Liberals - The Ones Who Are Good - Will Say, 'oh, We'll Cut The Military, But We Won't Cut Domestic Spending.'

How Would You Possibly Sell 700 Companies In A Fire Sale And Hope To Get What They Were Worth?it's Just An Unrealistic Sort Of Standard They're Trying To Hold [donald Trump] To.

I Think We're Never Fully Protected, But I Think We Need To Do Everything We Can To Stop Threats To Us.

The People Who Get The Ability To Use Force Have To Be Watched Carefully By Civilians To Make Sure They Don't Use It Excessively.

I'll Tell You What A Weakness Is Of This Country [the Usa]: There Are A Lot Of People Who Are Sick And Tired Because Washington Does Not Play By The Same Rules That The American People Have To Play By.

I Am Encouraged President Obama Now Says He Will Fulfill His Constitutional Obligation To Seek Authorization For Any Potential Military Action In Syria. This Is The Most Important Decision Any President Or Any Senator Must Make, And It Deserves Vigorous Debate

Let Me Be Clear: I Support The Civil Rights Act Because I Overwhelmingly Agree With The Intent Of The Legislation, Which Was To Stop Discrimination In The Public Sphere And Halt The Abhorrent Practice Of Segregation And Jim Crow Laws.

Hardened Terrorists Are Coming Here To Hit Us Hard If We Don't Hit Them First.

If Someone Tries To Put Limits On The Press, I'll Be The First One Standing Up For The Right Of Press, Left And Right, To Continue Saying And Being Part Of The Discussion And Forwarding The Discussion.

My Goodness, What We Want In A Leader Is Someone With Judgment, Not Someone Who Is So Reckless As To Stand On The Stage And Say, "yes, I'm Jumping Up And Down; I'm Going To Shoot Down Russian Planes." Russia Already Flies In That Airspace. It May Not Be Something We're In Love With The Fact That They're There, But They Were Invited By Iraq And By Syria To Fly In That Airspace.

Well, I Think A Handshake Is Something That Honorable Men Do. Before We Had Contracts We Had Handshakes That Expressed That We Were Making An Arrangement That Was Based On Our Honor. And I Don't Think I Can Shake The Hand Of Someone Who Shows And Lacks Honor By Attacking A Man's Faith.

I Think That Most Manufacturing And Mining Should Be Under The Purview Of State Authorities.

I Believe We Should Work To End All Racism In American Society And Staunchly Defend The Inherent Rights Of Every Person.

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