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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.

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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.

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

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Authority And Power

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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.

The Terrorism Danger To The United States "is Even Worse Than September 11th, When 19 Hijackers Murdered Almost 3,000 Americans."

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.

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

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Aclu Has Become Eccentric And Destructive.

Should The Catholic Church Find Itself Discriminated Against By The Obama Administration On Key Delivery Of Services Because Of The Bias And The Bigotry Of The Administration?

I Think Putin Has Already Gotten Used To The Idea Of Obama And His Secretary Of State, John Kerry, Making Noise - It Just Doesn't Seem To Impress Moscow At All.

People Like Me Are What Stand Between Us And Auschwitz.

It Is Time We Passed A Balanced Budget Amendment And Return This Government To Limited Spending.

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.

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.

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.

And By The Way I Don't Object If People Want To Attack Me, That's Their Right. All I'm Suggesting That It's Not Going To Be Very Effective And That People Are Going To Get Sick Of It Very Fast. And The Guys Who Attacked Each Other In The Debates Up To Now, Every Single One Of Them Have Lost Ground By Attacking.

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.

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.

Now, I Know Among The Politically Correct, You're Not Supposed To Use Facts That Are Uncomfortable.

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

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.

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.

In The Middle Of A Recession No Tax Increase Is Justified Because It Kills Jobs, And Any Tax Increase Is A Job-killing Measure And Should Be Defeated.

I Think Jefferson And George Washington Would Strongly Discourage You From Growing Marijuana, And Their Tactics To Stop You Would Be More Violent Than They Would Be Today.

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.

Even If Iraq Is A Civil War, People Have Won Civil Wars.

So When People Tell You, Oh, You Can't Have The Ten Commandments On Public Property, They're Just Wrong. It's Historically False. It's Not True. Now, You Can Decide To Invent A New America In Which You Shouldn't Say "one Nation Under God" As Part Of The Pledge Because, After All, You Will Offend Three Atheists. But That's Not The America You Inherited. That's A Different Country. And I Think It's A Weaker Country And I Think It's A Country That Has No Roots In Terms Of Where Its Rights Come From.

If You Go To The Lincoln Memorial, The Second Inaugural Is Probably The Most Religious Speech Ever Given By An American President. In Its 732 Words, It References God 14 Times And Has Two Verses Of The Bible.

Donald Trump Was Elected By People Who Believe Washington Has Too Much Power.

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