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I Have Six Times As Many Twitter Followers As All The Other Candidates Combined, But It Didn't Count Because If It Counted I'd Still Be A Candidate; Since I Can't Be A Candidate That Can't Count.

Centralized Health Dictatorship.

It Is False To Suggest That Thomas Jefferson Or Any Other Founding Father Believed In A Legal Barrier To God In The Public Square.

We've Had An Invented Palestinian People, Who Are In Fact Arabs, And Were Historically Part Of The Arab Community. And They Had A Chance To Go Many Places. And For A Variety Of Political Reasons We Have Sustained This War Against Israel Now Since The 1940's, And I Think It's Tragic.

This Is... One Of The Great Tragedies Of The Bush Administration. The More Successful They’ve Been At Intercepting And Stopping Bad Guys, The Less Proof There Is That We’re In Danger... It’s Almost Like They Should Every Once In A While Have Allowed An Attack To Get Through Just To Remind Us.

Opposing Taxes Is A Key Conservative Value.

More People Are On Food Stamps Today Because Of Obamas Policies Than Ever In History. I Would Like To Be The Best Paycheck President In American History. ... And So Im Prepared If The Naacp Invites Me, Ill Go To Their Convention And Talk About Why The African-american Community Should Demand Paychecks And Not Be Satisfied With Food Stamps.

African American

Hillary Clinton Has Built A Huge Machine. Donald Trump's Asset Is People On Facebook And Twitter. He Can Communicate With Them Eight Or 10 Times A Day With No Money. This Is A Different World.

We Do Agree That Our Country Must Take Action To Address Climate Change.

By The End Of My Second Term, We Will Have The First Permanent Base On The Moon, And It Will Be American.

Trump Is Trying To Do A Lot Of Really Big Things. And He's Actually Getting A Lot Of Big Things Done.

An Energy Tax Punishes Senior Citizens, It Punishes Rural Americans, If You Use Electricity It Punishes You. This Bill Will Increase Your Cost Of Living And May Kill Your Job.

For Most Of The Rise Of Modern Medicine, The Brain Was A Really Unknown Zone And Was All Based In Guesswork. Well, That's All Changing. And The Opioid Recovery Is A Very Good Example Of The Scale Of Change We're Seeing.

And In The Wake Of Trump's Elections, There Have Been Reports Across The Country Of Intimidation, Harassment And Violence Against Those Very Groups. So If Trump Is Serious About Unifying The Country, If This Is A Thing He Wants To Do, Then I Think He Needs To Immediately Speak Against These Acts Of Intimidation, Harassment And Violence That Are Happening To Some Degree In The Name Of The Campaign That He Ran.

We Have To Pull Back, And We Have To Recognize It.

It Is Tragic What We Do In The Poorest Neighborhoods, Entrapping Children In Child Laws Which Are Truly Stupid... These Schools Should Get Rid Of Unionized Janitors, Have One Master Janitor, Pay Local Students To Take Care Of The School.

We Have Got To Get Beyond This Political Bologna. I'm Not Allowed To Say Anything Positive About Hillary Clinton Because Then I'm Not A Loyal Republican, And She's Not Allowed To Say Anything Positive About Me Because Then She's Not A Loyal Democrat. What A Stupid Way To Run A Country.

Now, For Romney To Believe That Somebody's Grandmother Is Going To Be So Cut Off She Is Going To Self Deport... He Certainly Shows No Concern For The Humanity Of People Who Are Already Here... I Think You Have To Live In Worlds Of Swiss Bank Accounts And Cayman Island Accounts And Automatic $20 Million A Year Income With No Work To Have Some Fantasy This Far From Reality.

Adolescence Was Invented In The 19th Century To Enable Middle-class Families To Keep Their Children Out Of Sweatshops. But It Has Degenerated Into A Process Of Enforced Boredom And Age Segregation That Has Produced One Of The Most Destructive Social Arrangements In Human History: Consigning 13-year-old Males To Learning From 15-year-old Males.

It May Just Be Because I Get Homesick, But I Have Concluded Washington's Cherry Blossoms Are Just Plain Overrated.

You Can't Talk About Attacking Or Assassinating The President Of The United States And You Shouldn't Be Able To.

Nothing Gets Done (in Congress) Unless It's Bipartisan. And The Reason That Matters Is That It's A Function Of Reality.

I Suspect That Donald Trump Is Going To Be Very Tough With Those Countries That Don't Spend At Least 2 Percent Of Their Gross Domestic Product On Defense. He Will Ask Them Why Should We Allow A Free-ride Policy.

If You've Been Here 15 Years And You've Got Three Kids And Grandkids And You've Been Paying Taxes And Obeying The Law, You Belong To A Local Church, I Don't Think We're Going To Separate You From Your Family, Uproot You Forcefully And Kick You Out.

President Obama Is A President So Weak That He Makes Jimmy Carter Look Strong.

I Think Donald Trump Is Very, Very Cautious About Nuclear Weapons, And He's Seriously Concerned. And This Might Be One Of The Reasons He Wants To Deal With Putin Carefully, Because He's Aware Of How Many Nuclear Weapons Putin Has, And That Russian Doctrine Is Much More Open About Using Nuclear Weapons Than Is American Doctrine.

I Think To Close Half Of Magic Kingdom For The Purpose Of A White House Invitation Town Hall Meeting On A Phony Main Street On Behalf Of A Phony President Just Strikes Me As Weird.

Money Really, Really Matters.

Public Broadcasting Is A Sandbox For The Rich. The Nea And The Heh Are Simply Enclaves Of The Left Using Your Money To Propagandize Your Children Against Your Values.

America Is Not A Country That Wanders Around Trusting People With Power. This Is A Country That Wants Accountability.

It's A Normal Way Of Doing Business.

I Have Enormous Personal Ambition. I Want To Shift The Entire Planet. And I'm Doing It. I Am Now A Famous Person. I Represent Real Power.

I Am Convinced That If We Do Not Decisively Win The Struggle Over The Nature Of America, By The Time [his Grandchildren Are] My Age They Will Be In A Secular Atheist Country, Potentially One Dominated By Radical Islamists And With No Understanding Of What It Once Meant To Be An American.

Really Poor Children In Really Poor Neighborhoods Have No Habits Of Working And Have Nobody Around Them Who Works.

Poor Neighborhoods

The Secular Elites Are So Terrified Of Telling The Truth About Radical Islam. When You Talk About The Radical Islamists, We Have Got To Get Straight And Get Serious And Talk About It In The Right Way.

If The Obama Administration Is This Afraid Of Glenn Beck, How Do They Deal With The Iranians?

I'm Against Obamacare, Which Is Imposing Radical Change, And I Would Be Against A Conservative Imposing Radical Change.... I Don't Think Right-wing Social Engineering Is Any More Desirable Than Left-wing Social Engineering... I Don't Think Imposing Radical Change From The Right Or The Left Is A Very Good Way For A Free Society To Operate.

The Greatest Leaders In Fighting For An Integrated America In The Twentieth Century Were In The Democratic Party. The Fact Is, It Was The Liberal Wing Of The Democratic Party That Ended Segregation. The Fact Is That It Was Franklin Delano Roosevelt Who Gave Hope To A Nation That Was In Despair And Could Have Slid Into Dictatorship. And The Fact Is, Every Republican Has Much To Learn From Studying What The Democrats Did Right.

The Problem Isn’t Too Little Money In Political Campaigns, But Not Enough.

I Believe We Will Elect A New President In 2012.

You Can't Flip-flop And Be Commander-in-chief.

Commander In Chief

Politics And War Are Remarkably Similar Situations.

I Think The Destructive, Vicious, Negative Nature Of Much Of The News Media Makes It Harder To Govern This Country, Harder To Attract Decent People To Run For Public Office.

I'm A Little Tired Of People Who Have Very Big Moral Positions And Very Small Power In Reality.

Gop Represents People, But Dems Communicate Better.

The Sacrament Of Marriage Is Based On A Man And Woman.

It's Going To Be A Bummer If Mars Turns Out To Be Like Us.

We're Not Going To Beat Barack Obama With Some Guy Who Has Swiss Bank Accounts, Cayman Island Accounts, Owns Shares Of Goldman Sachs While It Forecloses On Florida And Is Himself A Stockholder In Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac While He Tries To Think The Rest Of Us Are Too Stupid To Put The Dots Together To Understand What This Is All About.... People Matter More Than Wall Street.

I Love The Environment, But I'm Cheap On The Environment.

Oh, Sure... I Was Trying To Make To Make A Point That We Shouldn't Be Afraid To Debate The Left, Even On The Environment. That Was Obviously Misconstrued, And That's One Of The Things I Probably Won't Do Again

There Are Whole States Where People [with Addiction Or Mental Health Issues] Can't Get To A Doctor. If That Were True Of Pancreatic Cancer, If That Were True Of Heart Disease, If That Were True Of Diabetes, We'd All Understand That It Made No Sense At All. And Yet We Somehow Approach Mental Health From A Very Different Standard.

What's The Job Of The Candidate In This World? The Job Of The Candidate Is To Raise The Money To Hire The Consultants To Do The Focus Groups To Figure Out The 30-second Answers To Be Memorized By The Candidate. This Is Stunningly Dangerous.

Input Of Public Judgement For Any Major Tax Reform.

I'm Going To Be The Nominee. It's Very Hard Not To Look At The Recent Polls And Think That The Odds Are Very High I'm Going To Be The Nominee.

Surely The President Can Agree With Us, That Theft From Government Is Not Good. I Know It's Bold. It's Out On The Edge. I Know From A Chicago-springfield Background It's Hard To Fully Grasp That Honesty Could Be Part Of Government.

Heterosexual Marriage Is The Heart Of Our Civilization.

Heterosexual Marriage

So I'd Be Quite Happy To Have A Three-hour Lincoln/douglas Style Debate With Barack Obama. I'd Let Him Use A Teleprompter. I'll Just Rely On Knowledge. We'll Do Fine.

It Doesn’t Matter What I Do. People Need To Hear What I Have To Say. There’s No One Else Who Can Say What I Can Say. It Doesn’t Matter What I Live.

If Combat Means Living In A Ditch, Females Have Biological Problems Staying In A Ditch For 30 Days Because They Get Infections... Males Are Biologically Driven To Go Out And Hunt Giraffes.

When We Have 13,000 Americans Living On The Moon, They Can Petition To Become A State.

Any Ad Which Quotes What I Said On Sunday Is A Falsehood.

If You Are The Normal White American, Truth Is You Don't Understand Being Black In America, And You Instinctively Underestimate The Level Of Discrimination And The Level Of Additional Risk.

My Theme Is Going To Be: Together We Can Win The Future. The Right Policies Lead To The Right Results. And I'm Going To Argue That President Obama Will Lose The Future Because The Wrong Policies Lead To The Wrong Results.

Together We Can

Donald Trump Has To Be Donald Trump. And The Country Will Organize Itself Around Who He Is.

My Fine Friends Who Are Perfectionists, Each In Their Own World Where They Are Petty Dictators, Could Write A Perfect Bill. Those Of Us Who Have Grown Up And Matured...understand That We Have To Work Together On The Big Issues.

I Will Continue To Find Ways To Help Poor People Find A Job, Get A Job, And Learn Someday To Own The Job.

I Want To Say Unequivocally That While I Cherish Every Person Who Comes From Anywhere, Who Comes Here Legally And Seeks To Pursue Happiness, And I Hope All Of Them Decide To Stay And Become American Citizens, But I Want Them To Become American. And Part Of Becoming American Involved English. It Is Vital Historically To Assert And Establish That English Is The Common Language At The Heart Of Our Civilization.

Donald Trump's Not A Sexual Predator.

We Have A Choice Between Those Who Are Failing To Deliver And Those Who Are Unthinkable ... Neither Party Currently Is Where The Country Is.

Now, Tell Me How You're Going To Teach The History Of Jefferson, And Cut Out All Those Quotes And Cut Out All These Facts, And Cut Out The Key Line Of The Declaration Of Independence: We Are Endowed By Our Creator. I Mean You Have To Have A Conscious Deliberate Censorship Of America, Which Is What The Left And The Courts And The Classrooms Has Had For 40 Years.

We Don't We Agree That Litigation Reform To Lower The Cost Of Healthcare Would Be A Good Starting Point?

Military Tribunals To Lock People Up The Way Lincoln Did.

Support Charters; Insist On Change For Failing Schools.

When We Have Laws That Compartmentalize Medical Information, And When We Have Paper Systems That Compartmentalize Medical Information, You Sometimes Have A Doctor Who Understands His Specialty And Is Terrific On Your Kidneys, But He Doesn't Understand The Totality Of Who You Are.

[the Republicans] Offer . . . A Detailed Agenda For National Renewal. . . . [on] Reducing Illegitimacy . . . The State Will Use . . . Funds For Programs To Reduce Out-of-wedlock Pregnancies, To Promote Adoption, To Establish And Operate Children's Group Homes, To Establish And Operate Residential Group Homes For Unwed Mothers, Or For Any Purpose The State Deems Appropriate. None Of The Taxpayer Funds May Be Used For Abortion Services Or Abortion Counseling.

Donald Trump Is The One Who Said If Somebody Really Wants An Arms Race, We'll Drown Him.

Donald Trump Is Going To Win. Donald Trump Is Going To Win Because In The End, The Country Is Not Going To Reward Big Banks And Big Unions And Big Bureaucracies And Big Donors And Big Corruption By Voting For A Big Liar.

Nato Is An Alliance, So All Parts Of The Alliance Have To Be Capable.

You Can Be Totally Committed To Conservative Principles - To Individual Liberty, A Market Economy, Entrepreneurship And Lower Taxes - And Still Be A Green Conservative. You Can Believe That With The Sound Use Of Science And Technology And The Right Incentives To Encourage Entrepreneurs, Conservatism Can Provide A Better Solution For The Health Of Our Planet Than Can Liberalism.

If Under The Pressure Of Washington Donald Trump Starts Dissembling And Saying Things That Aren't True, He'll Decay As Much As Obama Did Well On That.

The Goal That The Obama Team Has Is To Fundamentally Replace The Historic America Of Self Reliance, Independence, The Work Ethic, The People Who Go Out And Achieve Because They Spend Their Lifetime Doing The Right Things And They Want To Replace It With A Politician Dominated Redistributionist Bureaucracy Which In The Essence Would Mean The End Of The America As It Has Been For The Last 400 Years.

I Think That One Of The Great Problems We Have In The Republican Party Is That We Don't Encourage You To Be Nasty. We Encourage You To Be Neat, Obedient, And Loyal And Faithful And All Those Boy Scout Words, Which Would Be Great Around The Camp Fire, But Are Lousy In Politics.

What More Do I Need To Say? Conservative Books Sell. I Can't Help It If Liberal Books Don't Sell.

As [house] Speaker, I Came Back, Working With President Bill Clinton. We Passed A Very Reagan-like Program: Less Regulation, Lower Taxes. Unemployment Dropped To 4.2 Percent. We Created 11 Million Jobs.

You Know, Modern Liberals Are Just, I Think Frankly, Totally Off The Deep End... Their Only Answer Is To Yell Racism And Hide.

Governor Romney May Be Running For Ceo, I'm Running For President

I Believe Most Americans Are Pro-choice And Anti-abortion.

Donald Trump Is My Leader. And If He Decides To Drop The Swamp And The Alligator, I Will Drop The Swamp And The Alligator.

The National Media Are Doing Everything They Can To Suppress Bad News About Hillary Clinton And Everything They Can To Maximize Bad News About Donald Trump.

Somebody Ought To Have The Courage To Tell The Truth. These People Are Terrorists.

Telling The Truth

Nea Includes Most Bizarre & Extreme Misuse Of Tax Funds.

If We Really Care About Safety We Would Close Down Wikileaks. We Would Treat The People At Wikileaks As Enemy Combatants. We Would Declare That The Kind Of Thing This Private Did Is Treason. Wikileaks Is Not A Fun And Games Event. Wikileaks Undermines Profoundly The Ability Of The United States To Work Around The World. Why Would You, If You Were A Foreigner Thinking About Helping The United States, Why Would You Confide Anything To An American When You Know That It Could End Up In The New York Times Based On Some Leak?

The Bigotry Question Goes Both Ways. There's A Lot More Anti-christian Bigotry Today Than There Is Concerning The Other Side. None Of It Gets Covered By The News Media.

I Don't Understand Why They Call It Public Broadcasting. As Far As I Am Concerned, There's Nothing Public About It; It's An Elitist Enterprise. 'rush Limbaugh' Is Public Broadcasting.

Private Scholarships For Students At Hopeless Schools.

And I Think Trump Wants To Change America To Make It Great Again For A Generation, Not Just For Eight Years.

It Is Time To Know More About Would-be Terrorists, To Profile For Terrorists And To Actively Discriminate Based On Suspicious Terrorist Information.

What Is The Primary Purpose Of A Political Leader? To Build A Majority. If Voters Care About Parking Lots, Then Talk About Parking Lots.

I Was Attacked The Other Night For Being Grandiose. I Would Just Want You To Note: Lincoln Standing At Council Bluffs Was Grandiose. The Wright Brothers Standing At Kitty Hawk Were Grandiose. John F. Kennedy Was Grandiose. I Accept The Charge That I Am Grandiose And That Americans Are Instinctively Grandiose.

If A Bunch Of Republicans Are Too Stiff- Necked, Too Proud, Or In Some Cases Too Committed To The Old Order, After The Election, I Think They're Going To Be Very Sobered By Their Position.

The Fact Is That A Liberal Democrat Doesn't Want To Talk About Ideology Because They Don't Want To Explain Publicly What They're Really Doing.

As A Citizen, I Would Rather Have A President Mccain That We Fight With 20% Of The Time, Than A President Clinton Or A President Obama That We Fight With 90% Of The Time.

And My Point Was One I Think That You'd Agree With, Which Is There's No Room In America For A Black Racist, A Latino Racist, Or A White Racist, Or An Asian Racist, Or A Native American Racist. Now, We're Either Color Blind Or We're Not Color Blind.

Native American

America Is Fed Up With Political Correctness, And It Is Fed Up With Government That Doesn't Work. It's Fed Up With Weakness Being Interpreted As Wisdom.

I Balanced The Budget For Four Straight Years, Paid Off $405 Billion In Debt - Pretty Conservative. The First Entitlement Reform Of Your Lifetime - In Fact, The Only Major Entitlement Reform Now Is Welfare.

You Cannot Compare America And Russia.

Remember, Most Of The Bureaucrats Voted For Hillary Clinton. Most Of The Bureaucrats Deeply Dislike What Trump Is Trying To Accomplish, And Most Of The Bureaucrats Think They Can't Be Fired, So They Can Outlast You.

My Strength And My Weakness Is That I See Normally Impersonal Events Vividly And Personally.

There’s A Large Part Of Me That’s Four Years Old. I Wake Up In The Morning And I Know That Somewhere There’s A Cookie. I Don’t Know Where It Is But I Know It’s Mine And I Have To Go Find It. That’s How I Live My Life. My Life Is Amazingly Filled With Fun.

I Think There's No Question That Everything Possible Is Being Done To Stop Donald Trump And You're Seeing A Case Study In How Hard It Is To Be Outsider And The Double Standard Of The National Media, Particularly If You're A Conservative Outsider.

The Mother Killing Her Two Children In South Carolina Vividly Reminds Every American How Sick The Society Is Getting And How Much We Have To Have Change. I Think People Want To Change And The Only Way You Get Change Is To Vote Republican.

[mitt Romney Is A] Massachusetts Moderate Who, In Fact, Is Pretty Good At Managing The Decay." He's "given No Evidence In His Years In Massachusetts Of Any Ability To Change The Culture Or Change The Political Structure.

Book Cover, 'reefer Club' Totalitarianism Is When People Believe They Can Punish Their Way To Perfection.

To Have A Major Breakthrough In Policy, You Have To Be Able To Stop And Think.

Maybe Governor Romney In The Spirit Of Openness Should Tell Us How Much Money He's Made Off Of How Many Households That Have Been Foreclosed By His Investments.

I Will Focus On Being Substantive And I Will Focus On Barack Obama.

Baby Boomers Becoming Republicans While Dems Become Outdated.

If The Soviet Empire Still Existed, I'd Be Terrified. The Fact Is, We Can Afford A Fairly Ignorant Presidency Now.

We're At The Crossroads. Down One Road Is A European Centralized Bureaucratic Socialist Welfare System In Which Politicians And Bureaucrats Define The Future. Down The Other Road Is A Proud, Solid, Reaffirmation Of American Exceptionalism.

What I Said Was: We Want Everybody To Learn English Because We Don't Want - I Didn't Use The Word 'spanish.'

We Tried To Have Diplomas Without Learning, We Tried To Have Jobs Without Work, We Tried To Have Houses Without Savings, We Tried To Have Government Without Responsibility.

I Think If You Have Mandatory Carbon Caps Combined With A Trading System, Much Like We Did With Sulfur, And If You Have A Tax-incentive Program For Investing In The Solutions, That There's A Package There That's Very, Very Good.

Donald Trump Really Is Who He Is, And I Think, For Example, He'll Probably Tweet His Entire Life - And That's A Fact. I Just Hope People Get Over It.

We Should End The Environmental Protection Agency's War Against American Oil And Gas.

Convert To Ira-based System.

Social Security

The Bush Administration Has Now Provided Three Case Studies In Arrogance, Isolation And Destructiveness: Michael Brown During Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Jerry Bremer In Baghdad And Secretary Paulson At Treasury. It Is A Tragic And Very Expensive Legacy. No Conservative And No Republican Should Doubt How Much It Has Hurt Our Cause And Our Party.

Any Suggestion That The Most Open And Diverse Society On The Planet Is Likely To In Any Way Resemble Russia Requires A Suspension Of Common Sense That Is Pretty Hard To Deal With.

Diverse Society

I Discourage A Cult Of Personality.

Cult Of Personality

Go Get A Job After You Take A Bath.

Frankly, Governor Romney In His Career Has Created More Jobs Than The Entire Obama Cabinet Combined, So He Could Actually Talk About It.

Bowing To The Saudi King Is Not An Energy Policy.

Russia Is Modernizing Its Nuclear Systems. They're Moving Toward More Effective Tactical Nuclear Systems. They're Moving Toward Delivery Systems Designed To Evade Anti-ballistic Missile Defenses. The Russians Are Investing, By The Way, In Robotic Weapons, Including A Potential Robotic Tank. Their Investment In New Technology, I Suspect, Outweighs All Of The European Defense Research And Development Spending Combined.

When A Court Goes Too Far, It Actually Weakens Our Respect For Judicial Institutions.

You Want To Be A Country That Creates Food Stamps? In Which Case, Frankly, Obama Is An Enormous Success The Most Successful Food Stamp President In American History. Or Do You Want To Be A Country That Creates Jobs?

I Believe We Are Now In A Struggle Over Whether Or Not We Are Going To Save America.

The Congressional Budget Office Is A Reactionary Socialist Institution Which Does Not Believe In Economic Growth, Does Not Believe In Innovation, And Does Not Believe In Data That It Has Not Internally Generated.

When You Do A Computerized Poll, Where People Are Comfortable, Donald Trump Vote Goes Up Very Dramatically. And I Think People Don't Realize The Effort By The Elite Media, The Totally Dishonest Effort To Submerge Him, Has Had An Effect.

When You Have A 12-minute Debate Over Whether Lipstick On A Pig Refers To A Demeaning Comment About The Vice Presidential Candidate, You Know We're Not Talking About Health Reform, We're Not Talking About Energy Policy, We're Not Talking About Balancing The Budget. And You Know, It's Fairly Stupid.

Can We Drop A Little Bit Of The Pious Baloney? The Fact Is, You Ran In '94 And Lost. That's Why You Weren't Serving In The Senate With Rick Santorum. The Fact Is, You Had A Very Bad Re-election Rating, You Dropped Out Of Office, You Had Been Out Of State For Something Like 200 Days Preparing To Run For President. You Didn't Have This Interlude Of Citizenship While You Thought About What You Do. You Were Running For President While You Were Governor.

I Think That We've Had An Invented Palestinian People Who Are In Fact Arabs And Who Were Historically Part Of The Arab Community.

On The Battlefield Of Ideas, Winning Requires Moving Toward The Sound Of The Guns.

In Every Election In American History Both Parties Have Their Cliches. The Party That Has The Cliches That Ring True Wins.

Under Our [constitutional System] - Either We're Going To Have To Rethink Our Constitution, Or We're Going To Have To Rethink Our Process Of Decision-making.

Decision Making

There's No Question At Times Of My Life, Partially Driven By How Passionately I Felt About This Country, That I Worked Far Too Hard And Things Happened In My Life That Were Not Appropriate.

You Talk About Crying! The Spring Of 1988, I Spent A Fair Length Of Time Trying To Come To Grips With Who I Was And The Habits I Had, And What They Did To People That I Truly Loved. I Really Spent A Period Of Time Where, I Suspect, I Cried Three Or Four Times A Week. I Read Men Who Hate Women And The Women Who Love Them And I Found Frightening Pieces That Related To...my Own Life.

If You Have Depression, You Are Dramatically More Likely To Be Sick. Now To Say You Don't Need To Treat Depression Because It's Not A Medical Reality - When In Fact It Clearly Affects Your Interaction With The Entire World Around You - Is Just Frankly Reactionary.

Is Capitalism Really About The Ability Of A Handful Of Rich People To Manipulate The Lives Of Thousands Of People And Then Walk Off With The Money?

Change Is Healthy And Useful. It Has To Be Fought For Most Of The Time. It's Not Inevitable. It Takes Real Leadership And Real Effort. But I Think It's Really Important Not To Take Yourself Too Seriously. Dwight Eisenhower Used To Have A Rule That You Should Always Take Your Job Seriously But Not Yourself.

How Can You Have The Mess We Have In New Orleans, And Not Have Had Deep Investigations Of The Federal Government, The State Government, The City Government, And The Failure Of Citizenship In The Ninth Ward, Where 22,000 People Were So Uneducated And So Unprepared, They Literally Couldn't Get Out Of The Way Of A Hurricane.

Hillary Clinton Is Lying Again And Again.

Again And Again

I'm Not A Natural Leader. I'm Too Intellectual; I'm Too Abstract; I Think Too Much.

As The Largest Market On The Planet, I'm Not Particularly Worried About Countries That Want To Start A Trade War With America. I Think They Would End Up Losing.

I Don't Care Who You Are, I Care Who You Want To Be.

Ongoing Battle Against Liberals Nationalizing Healthcare.

If You Import A Commercial Quantity Of Illegal Drugs. It Is Because You Have Made The Personal Decision That You Are Prepared To Get Rich By Destroying Our Children. I Have Made The Decision That I Love Our Children Enough That We Will Kill You If You Do This.

Government Should Take Management Lesson From Private Sector.

You Know, Presidents Have To Be Disciplined, And In That Sense Hillary Clinton Is Probably Better Trained To Be President, Just Because She's The Most Corrupt Person To Ever Get The Nomination Of A Major Party.

Every President Developed His Own Style. You Know That We Don't Recruit Them To A Certain Standard.

Well, I Think That There's A Clear Record, I Worked With Ronald Reagan In The Early '80s And His Recovery Program Translated Into Today's Population Of About 25 Million New Jobs In A Seven-year Period. As Speaker Of The House, I Worked With President Clinton And He Followed With A Very Similar Plan. And We Ended Up With About 11 Million New Jobs In A Four-year Period.

Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less.

Indicate Which Principles You Support Regarding Affirmative Action And Discrimination. 1. The Federal Government Should Discontinue Affirmative Action Programs. 2. The Federal Government Should Prosecute Cases Of Discrimination In The Public Sector. 3. The Federal Government Should Prosecute Cases Of Discrimination In The Private Sector.

I Read Men Who Hate Women And The Women Who Love Them And I Found Frightening Pieces That Related To…my Own Life.

I Think Every Religious Person Should Have A Deep Sense Of Respect For Other People's Religious Documents And Religious Symbols Just As We Were Deeply Opposed To The Taliban Destroying The Two Historic Buddhas Which They Blew Up. So I Think We Ought To All Oppose Burning The Koran.

Reintegrating The Brain Into The Rest Of The Body Is Absolutely Essential To Having The Kind Of Long-term Health And Substantially Lower Cost [of Care] Than If You're Going To Treat Them Separately.

I Don’t Think We Have Conclusive Proof That Humans Are At The Center Of [global Warming]

We Need A Dramatically Expanded Use Of Statecraft.

Defeating Barack Obama Becomes, In Fact, A Duty Of National Security. Because The Fact Is, He Is Incapable Of Defending The United States.

Rethink Every Aspect Of Bureaucracy.

The Evidence Is Sufficient That We Should Move Towards The Most Effective Possible Steps To Reduce Carbon Loading Of The Atmosphere.

Maybe We Need A Tax Credit For The Poorest Americans To Buy A Laptop. Now, Maybe That's Wrong, Maybe That's Expensive, Maybe We Can't Do It, But I'll Tell You, Any Signal That We Can Send To The Poorest Americans That Says, 'we're Going Into A 21st Century, Third-wave Information Age, And So Are You, And We Want To Carry You With Us.'

Have You Heard A Single National Figure Tell You All Of The Crises Of The Recent Past Are Not Economic, They're Cultural?

Without Jimmy Carter We Might Not Have Gotten Ronald Reagan, Without Ronald Reagan There Would Probably Still Be A Soviet Union.

I Would Just Say That If Governor Romney Would Like To Give Back All The Money He’s Earned From Bankrupting Companies And Laying Off Employees Over His Years At Bain That I Would Be Glad To Then Listen To Him. I’ll Bet You $10, Not $10,000, That He Won’t Take The Offer.

Anyone Who Would Understand The Reagan Victory Of 1980 And The Movement That Eliminated The Soviet Union And Revitalized America Must Read-indeed Must Study-craig Shirley's Brilliant, Comprehensive Work.

I Think That Donald Trump Is Very Concerned About Finding The Right Way To Be Effective In A Responsible Way. And He Wants To Be Effective.

Polls Are Biased Left; Gop Wins On The Issues.

Oh, He Was Asking To Have An Open Marriage And I Refused.

I'm Old Enough, I Remember When Richard Nixon Had The Election Stolen In 1960. And No Serious Historian Doubts That Illinois And Texas Were Stolen.

There Should Be No Mosque Near Ground Zero In New York So Long As There Are No Churches Or Synagogues In Saudi Arabia.

That Is The Most Accurate, Predictive Model For His Behavior....i Think Obama Gets Up Every Morning With A Worldview That Is Fundamentally Wrong About Reality...if You Look At The Continuous Denial Of Reality, There Has Got To Be A Point Where Someone Stands Up And Says That This Is Just Factually Insane.

As A Historian I Understand How Histories Are Written. My Enemies Will Write Histories That Dismiss Me And Prove I Was Unimportant. My Friends Will Write Histories That Glorify Me And Prove I Was More Important Than I Was. And Two Generations Or Three From Now, Some Serious Sober Historian Will Write A History That Sort Of Implies I Was Whoever I Was.

The American Challenge In Leading The World Is Compounded By Our Constitution.

I Do Not Believe That The People Of The United States Are Going To Take People Who Have Been Here A Quarter Century, Who Have Children And Grandchildren, Who Are Members Of The Community, Who May Have Done Something 25 Years Ago, Separate Them From Their Families, And Expel Them.

You Serve The Country, And You Help The President. If The President Wants You To Leave, You Know, You Are Two Corridors Down.

Our Rights Come From Our Creator And It Is Impossible To Define America If You Do Not Talk In Public About Where Your Rights Come From.

What If [obama] Is So Outside Our Comprehension, That Only If You Understand Kenyan, Anti-colonial Behavior, Can You Begin To Piece Together [his Actions]? That Is The Most Accurate, Predictive Model For His Behavior.

To Suggest That It's Ok To Assassinate A President, I Think Is A Felony. And I Think That It Should Be.

Donald Trump Has To Understand And His Family Has To Understand That There Is A Public Interest Which Transcends Them.

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We In This House Are Role Models. People All Over The World Watch Us And Study Us. When We Fall Short, They Lose Hope. When We Fail, They Despair.

I Expect That Trump Believes We Do Not Have An Obligation To Have A Cold War With Russia, But That He Is Very Cautious.

Would You Pick Me? I Am So Much My Own Agent, It Would Be - Its Inconceivable.

I'm Moderately Optimistic. We Americans Are An Enormous Country With More Than 300 Million People So There's Reason For Optimism.

We Should Replace Bilingual Education With Immersion In English So People Learn The Common Language Of The Country And They Learn The Language Of Prosperity, Not The Language Of Living In A Ghetto.

If We'd Had Government On [today's] Scale In The 1840s, The Stagecoaches Would Have Hired Lobbyists To Get A Bill Passed That Railroads Could Not Travel Faster Than A Horse Because It Would Be An Unfair Competitive Advantage.

The Long Experiment With Professional Politicians And Professional Government Is Over, And It Failed.

See, When I Smoked Pot It Was Illegal, But Not Immoral. Now, It Is Illegal And Immoral. The Law Didn't Change, Only The Morality… That's Why You Get To Go To Jail And I Don't.

Authorize The Exploration Of Proven Energy Reserves To Reduce Our Dependence On Foreign Energy Sources From Unstable Countries And Reduce Regulatory Barriers.

The Pollsters Who Have Telephoners Are Going To Consistently Get A Lower Vote For Donald Trump Because The Media Has Attacked Him So Savagely And So Dishonestly That A Substantial Number Of People Will Not Say They're For Trump.

We Are Going To Have The Candidate Of Food Stamps, The Finest Food-stamp President In The American History, In Barack Obama, And We Are Going To Have A Candidate Of Paychecks.

The Big Trump Is A Historic Figure. The Big Trump Beat 16 Other People For The Nomination. The Big Trump Is Creating Issues That Make The Establishment Very Uncomfortable. The Little Trump Frankly Gets Out - Is Stupid. I Mean, That Comment Just Then Is Dumb. And I Don't Defend Him When He Wanders Off; I've Told Him Over And Over.

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