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I Think We Can't Be Naive In Dealing With The Russians Or Dealing With The Syrians. But At The Same Time, I Think We Could Try To Encourage - And I Think This Is What Diplomacy Should Do - Encourage The Self-interests Of All Parties To Believe That It Is In Their Best Interest To Get Evil Actors Or Rogue Actors Such As Syria Or Iran, If You Try To Have Less Belligerent And Less Bellicose Behavior.

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I Think We Can't Be Naive In Dealing With The Russians Or Dealing With The Syrians. But At The Same Time, I Think We Could Try To Encourage - And I Think This Is What Diplomacy Should Do - Encourage The Self-interests Of All Parties To Believe That It Is In Their Best Interest To Get Evil Actors Or Rogue Actors Such As Syria Or Iran, If You Try To Have Less Belligerent And Less Bellicose Behavior.

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

Big And Oppressive Government Has Long Been The Enemy Of Freedom, Something Black Americans Know All Too Well.

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I'm The Leading Voice In America For Not Arming The Allies Of Isis.

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I'm Here In Whoopi Goldberg's Office Trying To Choose Some Shoes. We've Seen [marco] Rubio Has Those Cool New Boots And I Don't Want To Be Outdone.

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

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Our Intervention To Destabilize The Assad Regime Has Really Made The Chaos Worse In Syria. And If You Were To Get Rid Of Assad Today, I Would Actually Worry About The 2 Million Christians That Are Protected By Assad.

I Believe We Should Work To End All Racism In American Society And Staunchly Defend The Inherent Rights Of Every Person. I Have Clearly Stated In Prior Interviews That I Abhor Racial Discrimination And Would Have Worked To End Segregation. Even Though This Matter Was Settled When I Was 2, And No Serious People Are Seeking To Revisit It Except To Score Cheap Political Points, I Unequivocally State That I Will Not Support Any Efforts To Repeal The Civil Rights Act Of 1964.

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.

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.

I Say Not One Penny More To Countries That Are Burning Our Flag.

We Don't Need Bigger Government. We Need To Shrink The Size Of Government.

As Commander-in-chief, I Will Do Whatever It Takes To Defend America. But In Defending America, We Cannot Lose What America Stands For.

Whatever It Takes

You Have To Decide In Advance Whether You're Ready Go To War. If You Guys Are Ready To Send A Million Troops Into Ukraine And Fight World War Iii, You're Going To Do It Without My Support Because I Think That's A Really Foolish Notion.

If You Are Going To Kill The Families Of Terrorists, Realize That There's Something Called The Geneva Convention We're Going To Have To Pull Out Of. It Would Defy Every Norm That Is America.

My Grandfather Would Live To See His Children Become Doctors And Ministers, Accounts And Professors.

We Need A Republican Party That Shows Up On The South Side Of Chicago And Shouts At The Top Of Our Lungs, 'we Are The Party Of Jobs And Opportunity! The Gop Is The Ticket To The Middle Class.

Every Child In Every Neighborhood, Of Every Color, Class And Background, Deserves A School That Will Help Them Succeed.

You Can Send A Clear Message To The Establishment

I'm Not Someone Who's Sort Of Still Trying To Figure Out What I Believe In.

As Long As I Sit At Henry Clay's Desk, I Will Remember His Lifelong Desire To Forge Agreement, But I Will Also Keep Close To My Heart The Principled Stand Of His Cousin, Cassius Clay, Who Refused To Forsake The Life Of Any Human, Simply To Find Agreement.

You Can Not Be A Conservative If You're Going To Keep Promoting New Programs That You're Not Going To Pay For.

You Don't Know Who The Next Group Is That's Unpopular. The Bill Of Rights Isn't For The Prom Queen. The Bill Of Rights Isn't For The High School Quarterback. The Bill Of Rights Is For The Least Among Us. The Bill Of Rights Is For Minorities. The Bill Of Rights Is For Those Who Have Minority Opinions.

I Will Not Let The Patriot Act, The Most Un-patriotic Of Acts, Go Unchallenged.

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.

After Ensuring Border Security, I Then Would Normalize The Status Of 11 Million Undocumented Citizens So They Can Join The Work Force And Pay Taxes...i Would Normalize Them At A Rate Of About Two Million Per Year.

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

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?

What My Bill Would Do Would Be Only For Refugees Going Forward. So I Haven't Taken A Position On Sending Anyone Home. But I Have Taken The Position That We Have A Lot Of Problems Here In Our Country. And That One Of The Things That We Do - Charity Is About Giving Your Own Money. Charity Isn't Giving Someone Else's Money.

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.

I Think Women Have Come A Long Way. Women Are In Positions Not Because They're Women, They're In Positions Because They're Intelligent And They Should Be Equal To Their Counterparts And Treated Equally.

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.

I Would Prefer The [usa] Government To Be The Policeman And Not The Businessman.

I Would Argue That The Objective Evidence Shows That Big Government Is Not A Friend To African Americans.

African American

I Just Can't Vote To Go To War Unless I Think There's A Real Clear-cut American Purpose In The War, That We're Going To Win And That We're Not Going Fight For Stalemate.

The Democrats Promised Equalizing Outcomes Through Unlimited Federal Assistance While Republicans Offered Something That Seemed Less Tangible - The Promise Of Equalizing Opportunity Through Free Markets.

We Still Need To Secure Our Southern Border. The Other Thing I Would Say Is We Need To Secure Who Visits Us In The Country.

The Separation Of Powers Is About Legislative Powers. It Isn't About Discussion Or Words.

Separation Of Powers

No Republican Questions Or Disputes Civil Rights. I Have Never Wavered In My Support For Civil Rights Or The Civil Rights Act.

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

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

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