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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.

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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.

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The Growth And Opportunity Project Is The Most Successful Reexamination Of A National Party In Modern Times. Te Disciplined Focus Of Chairman Reince Priebus Has Turned Its Suggestions Into Realities That Are Changing The Political Setting Of Elections. No One Should Underestimate The Boldness Of These Changes And The Courage They Took.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

I Think Donald Trump Needs To Set A Direction That Allows People Who Are Deeply Opposed To Obamacare To Realize It's Gradually Going To Be Reformed And Rethought.

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

The Constitution Gives The President Of The United States An Extraordinarily Wide Grant Of Authority To Use The Power Of The Pardon.

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.

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

Telling The Truth

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.

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

I Discourage A Cult Of Personality.

Cult Of Personality

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.

Deadline For Iraqi Withdrawal Is Legislating Defeat.

Now You Have To Ask A Question - Is That Really, Is Capitalism Really About The Ability Of A Handful Of Rich People To Manipulate The Lives Of Thousands Of Other People And Walk Off With The Money? Or Is That In Fact Somehow A Little Bit Of A Flawed System? And So I Do Draw Distinction Between Looting A Company, Leaving Behind Broken Families And Broken Neighborhoods And Then Leaving A Factory That Should Be There.

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