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I Think Most People, In Their Lifetime, Have Seen Somebody Who Has The Ability To Use Force Lord It Over Other Individuals. I See A Lot Of Those Videos, And I Am Disturbed By People Being Yanked Out Of Their Cars, And It Seems To Be A Disproportionate Amount Of Young Black Men. I'm Disturbed By It.

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I Think Most People, In Their Lifetime, Have Seen Somebody Who Has The Ability To Use Force Lord It Over Other Individuals. I See A Lot Of Those Videos, And I Am Disturbed By People Being Yanked Out Of Their Cars, And It Seems To Be A Disproportionate Amount Of Young Black Men. I'm Disturbed By It.

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Roll Back Federal Spending To 2008 Levels.

Federal Spending

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I Think Ultimately That The Rules That You Make For Gun Control, People Who Are Intent On Killing Themselves Aren't Too Concerned With The Rules. Law-abiding Citizens Are.

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I've Put Pencil To Paper... And I've Said I Would Cut Spending, And I've Said Exactly Where. Each One Of My Budgets Has Taken A Meat Axe To Foreign Aid, Because I Think We Ought To Quit Sending It To Countries That Hate Us.

America Does Not Need To Continue To Have Regime Change Throughout The World, Nation-building.

The State Doesn’t Own Your Children. Parents Own The Children.

John Mccain Is The Guy That Has Advocated For War Everywhere. He Would Bankrupt The Nation.

The Greatest Threat To Our National Security Is Our Debt. We Borrow A Million Dollars A Minute.

The Insurance Companies Make About $15 Billion A Year. They Have Doubled Their Profit Margin Under Obamacare. And So Now We're Going To Take A Lot Of This And Call It A Stabilization Fund, But Really It's A Bailout Of Insurance Companies. And I Just Think That's Wrong. I Just Can't See Why Ordinary, Average Taxpayers Would Be Giving Money To Very, Very Wealthy Corporations. An Analogous Situation Would Be This: We All Complain That New Cars Cost Too Much. Why Don't We Have A New Car Stabilization Fund And Give $130 Billion To Car Companies?

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.

Toppling Secular Dictators In The Middle East Has Only Led To Chaos And The Rise Of Radical Islam.

President Obama Said, Oh, We Want To Make Insurance Perfect For People, But He Added All These Regulatory Mandates, Made It Too Expensive. Young, Healthy People Didn't Buy It, And The People Remaining In The Insurance Pool Were Sicker And Sicker. That's The Adverse Selection And The Death Spiral Of Obamacare. And So Really We Do Need To Discuss The Intricacies Of What Worked And What Didn't Work In Obamacare. And I Think The Better Way To Do This Is To Let Individuals Have The Freedom To Choose What Kind Of Insurance Is Best For Them. The Government Doesn't Always Know Best.

Let's Say Tomorrow That There Was A President, That We Elected A President That Eliminated The Bulk Collection Of Data. Let's Just Say It Happened. What Do You Think Would Happen? People Are Like 'the Sky Would Fall. We Would Be Overrun With Jihadists.' Maybe We Could Rely On The Constitution. Maybe We Could Get Warrants. ... If You Make The Warrant Specific, There's No Limit To What You Can Get Through A Warrant.

The Only Way To Save Social Security Is To Raise The Retirement Age.

You Campaigned Against Rich People And You Got Enough Envy Whipped Up In The Country And You're Gonna Get 'em. You're Gonna Stick It To Those Rich People. But Guess What? You May Not Get Anymore Revenue. You May Not Get Anymore Economic Growth. But You Can Say, 'i Stuck It To The Rich People.'

I'm Not Accusing Anybody Of Being [hitler].

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I've Been Accused Of Wanting To Allow Terrorists To Have Weapons To Attack America.

You Wonder Why Your Government's Completely Broken? We Lurch From Deadline To Deadline, And It's On Purpose Really. We Do Deadline To Deadline Because ... 'we've Got To Go. It's Spring Break, We're Going To Be Late For Spring Break, And We've Got To Go, So We've Got To Finish This Up Before We Go.'

What Is Immoral For An Individual To Do, Is Immoral For A Government To Do

There Comes A Time, There Comes A Time In The History Of Nations When Fear And Complacency Allow Power To Accumulate And Liberty And Privacy To Suffer. That Time Is Now And I Will Not Let The Patriot Act, The Most Unpatriotic Of Acts Go Unchallenged.

Every Gun Regulation That President [barack] Obama Has Advocated For, California Has Already. And It Didn't Stop Terrorism.

I Would Introduce And Support Legislation To Send Roe V. Wade Back To The States.

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The Republican Platform Specifically Says We Don't Believe In Bailing Out Private Business, And Yet We Did.

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There Is Often Variations Of Evil On Both Sides Of The War. What We Have To Decide Is Whether Or Not Regime Change Is A Good Idea. It's What The Neoconservatives Have Wanted. It's What The Vast Majority Of Those On The Stage Want.

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.'

If You Think You Have The Right To Health Care, You Are Saying Basically That I Am Your Slave. I Provide Health Care... My Staff And Technicians Provide It... If You Have A Right To Health Care, Then You Have A Right To Their Labor.

I Think If We Want To Defeat Terrorism, I Think If We Truly Are Sincere About Defeating Terrorism, We Need To Quit Arming The Allies Of Isis. If We Want To Defeat Terrorism, The Boots On The Ground - The Boots On The Ground Need To Be Arab Boots On The Ground.

There Is Nothing Conservative About Bailing Out Wall Street. Likewise, There Is Nothing Progressive About Billion Dollar Loans To Millionaires To Build Solar Panels.

I Also Think Regime Change In Syria Is A Bad Idea. And That's An Ongoing Question. It's One Of The Things I Like About Donald Trump, One Of The Reasons I Endorsed Him Is He Thinks Regime Change Is A Mistake. But John Bolton Thinks Completely The Opposite. They Are Diametric Opposites.

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.

Well, There’s 10 - There’s 10 Different - There’s 10 Different Titles, You Know, To The Civil Rights Act, And Nine Out Of 10 Deal With Public Institutions. And I’m Absolutely In Favor Of One Deals With Private Institutions, And Had I Been Around, I Would Have Tried To Modify That.

The Fundamental Reason Why Medicare Is Failing Is Why The Soviet Union Failed - Socialism Doesn't Work.

You Can Tell A Person's Religion 85 Percent Of The Time From Their Phone Records.

I Think It's A Little Premature To Talk About Response Until We Know Exactly What Happened, But We Should Know What Happened. And We Should Know How To Defend [against Hackers Attacks] Ourselves Without Question.

I Think We've Made The Collection Haystack So Big, No One's Ever Getting Through The Haystack To Find The Needle. What We Really Need To Do Is Isolate The Haystack Into A Group Of Suspicious People And Spend Enormous Resources Looking At Suspicious People, People Who We Have Probable Cause.

Nobody Ever Was Fired For 9/11. Instead Of Firing The People Who Didn't Do A Good Job, We Gave Them Medals. The Guy Who Did A Good Job, I Don't Know What Happened To Him. And What We Did Was We Decided We'd Just Collect Everybody's Information. That We'd Sort Of Scrap The Bill Of Rights.

The Problem Is That In Our Country, They Make It Almost Impossible For Politicians To Win Anything. In England It's Easier To Win A Libel Suit.

Benjamin Netanyahu Said That Ultimately, They Will Be Stronger When They're Independent. My Position Is Exactly The Same. We Shouldn't Borrow Money From China To Send It Anywhere, But Why Don't We Start With Eliminating Aid To Our Enemies.

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

I Think There Is Some Overreach In The Sense That The Epa Now Says: If Congress Doesn't Pass Greenhouse Emissions Regulations Or Testing, We'll Simply Do It On Our Own. I Think That's An Arrogance Of A Regulatory Body Run Amok.

Should It Be Prohibited For Private Entities Such As A Church, Bed And Breakfast Or Retirement Neighborhood That Doesn't Want Noisy Children? Absolutely Not.

I Do Want To See An Immigration Compromise. And You Can't Have An Immigration Compromise If Everybody's Out There Calling The President A Racist.

The President Began This Program By Executive Order. He Should Immediately End It By Executive Order. For Over A Year Now, He Has Said The Program Is Illegal, And Yet He Does Nothing.

I Hate That Mosul Is Falling, But I Also Think That For 10 Years We Have Supplied The Iraqis And They Can't Stand Up And Do Anything To Defend Their Country, And It Is All Up To Us?

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.

If There Are Few Conservatives In The Senate Wing Of The Republican Party That Will Say No To A Budget That Never Balances, We Could Have The Power To Say To The Leadership, You Know What, Need A Better Budget.

The Source Of The Problem Is In Syria. Raqqa Is The Headquarters Of Isil, Which Is A Lethal Terrorist Organization, Now Army. If You Don't Go After Them Over There, They're Going To Hit Us Over Here, And There's No Substitute For That In My View.

Any Time You Make An Analogy To Horrific People In History, Mussolini Or Hitler, People Say, 'oh, You're Exaggerating, You're Talking About, It's Hyperbole.' Maybe It Is. ... But I Would Say Is That If You Are Not Concerned That Democracy Could Produce Bad People, I Don't Think You're Really Thinking This Through Too Much.

I Would Have Handled It Differently Than The Mayor Of Baltimore, That's For Sure. I Think It's A Mistake To Say, Hey, Guys, You Can Pillage The City For A While And We'll Let That Go, And We'll Be Sort Of Standing Back. I Think It's Also Important To Know Some Of The Underlying Causes Of Why There's Unease In Our Country.

Cut Defense Spending As Part Of Cutting All Federal Spending.

I Think The Entire World Knows, And North Korea Knows, That If They Used Any Weapons On Our Soldiers They Would Be Obliterated. And It Would Be An Overwhelming Response.

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

Our Legislative Victory - An End To Earmarks.

Does The Owner Of The Restaurant Own His Restaurant? Or Does The Government Own His Restaurant?

Do You Hate Poor People Or Do You Just Hate Poor People With Jobs?

The Main Thing I Say On War Is That We Need To Obey The Law And Formally Declare War.

I Have A Message From The Tea Party, A Message That Is Loud And Clear And Does Not Mince Words. We've Come To Take Our Government Back.

If There Were An Ounce Of Courage In This Body I Would Be Joined By Other Senators… Saying They Will Not Tolerate This.

Overall Do I Believe Exchange With Other Cultures Is Good, People Going Back And Forth Is Good, Trade Is Good. Yes, All Of These Things Are Good. But I Think You Have To Make Sure The System's Working. We Need To Know, Virtually 100 Percent Of The Time, When You Come And When You Leave. It's Called Entry And Exit.

I Think It's A Mistake To Downgrade And Say Surveillance Is No Big Deal. It Is A Huge Deal That We Are Collecting Millions Of Americans Phone Calls And That Someone Can Go To A Keyboard And Put Your Name In And Search It Without A Warrant.

The Other Thing To Realize Is That Almost All These Shootings, Including This Shooting [in San-bernardino], Happened In A Government Building Where People Are Not Allowed To Defend Themselves. While It's Not The Ultimate Answer, The Ultimate Answer Would Be No Violence, Part Of The Answer Is Saying, "we Need To Allow People To Defend Themselves."

The Paris Attack Was Highly Sophisticated, Well-planned, Very Clever, Took Months In The Making, Very Much Like 9/11. And There Is A 9/11-style Attack Coming To America.

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