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I Try And Make It To The Word Exactly What I Said Four Years Ago And What I Said Was That Those Who've Come Here Illegally Should Not Be Given A Special Pathway, A Favored Pathway To Become Permanent Residents Merely By Virtue Of Having Come Here Illegally. That They Should Be In Line With Everybody - They Should Be Given The Opportunity To Get In Line With Everybody Else But They Go To The Back Of The Line.

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I Try And Make It To The Word Exactly What I Said Four Years Ago And What I Said Was That Those Who've Come Here Illegally Should Not Be Given A Special Pathway, A Favored Pathway To Become Permanent Residents Merely By Virtue Of Having Come Here Illegally. That They Should Be In Line With Everybody - They Should Be Given The Opportunity To Get In Line With Everybody Else But They Go To The Back Of The Line.

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Iran's Nuclearization Is The Greatest Single National Security Threat America Faces.

The Last Thing We Need Is Hillarycare. The Last Thing We Need Is Socialized Medicine.

This Is A Nation Of Immigrants. We Welcome People Coming To This Country As Immigrants. My Dad Was Born In Mexico Of American Parents; Ann's Dad Was Born In Wales And Is A First-generation American. We Welcome Legal Immigrants Into This Country.

By Making Bold Cuts In Spending And Commonsense Entitlement Reforms, We Will Make Our Government Simpler, Smaller, And Smarter.

I Believe Abortion Should Be Safe And Legal In This Country. I Believe That Since Roe V Wade Has Been The Law For 20 Years That We Should Sustain And Support It. And I Sustain And Support That Law And The Right Of A Woman To Make That Choice. We Can Believe What We Want, But Will Will Not Force Our Beliefs On Others On That Matter. And You Will Not See Me Waivering On That.

I Actually Like Jokes As Well As Things That Are Sort Of Fun.

My View Is That Marriage Is A Relationship Between A Man And A Woman. That's The Position I've Had For Some Time, And I Don't Intend To Make Any Adjustments At This Point... Or Ever, By The Way.

Iran Is The Greatest National Security Threat America Faces. Russia Does Continue To Battle Us In The U.n. Time And Time Again. I Have Clear Eyes On This.

I'm Severely Conservative.

Mom And Dad Were Married 64 Years. And If You Wondered What Their Secret Was, You Could Have Asked The Local Florist - Because Every Day Dad Gave Mom A Rose, Which He Put On Her Bedside Table. That's How She Found Out What Happened On The Day My Father Died - She Went Looking For Him Because That Morning, There Was No Rose.

Since President Obama Assumed Office Three Years Ago, Federal Spending Has Accelerated At A Pace Without Precedent In Recent History.

I Saw My Father March With Martin Luther King.

Leadership - Leadership Is About Taking Responsibility, Not Making Excuses.

For Those Who Have Come Here Illegally, They Might Have A Transition Time To Allow Them To Set Their Affairs In Order. And Then Go Back Home And Get In Line With Everybody Else. And If They Get In Line And They Apply To Become A Citizen And Get A Green Card, They Will Be Treated Like Everybody Else.

And A Special Thank You To The Citizens Of Massachusetts: You Are Paying All The Taxes, Creating All The Jobs, Raising All The Children. This Government Is Yours. Thank You For Letting Me Serve You. I Love This Job.

Corporations Are People, My Friend... Of Course They Are. Everything Corporations Earn Ultimately Goes To People. Where Do You Think It Goes? Whose Pockets? Whose Pockets? People's Pockets. Human Beings, My Friend.

Some People In America Feel That Pakistan Is Being Nice To Us, And That We Should Walk Away Fro Mthem. But Pakistan Is Important To The Region, To The World And To Us, Because Pakistan Has 100 Nuclear Warheads And They're Rushing To Build A Lot More. They'll Have More Than Great Britain Sometime In The - In The Relatively Near Future.

People From Both Political Parties Have Long Recognized That Welfare Without Work Creates Negative Incentives That Lead To Permanent Poverty. It Robs People Of Self-esteem.

Freedom Requires Religion In Society, Not In Individuals.

Religion In Society

I'm Not A Big-game Hunter. I've Always Been A Rodent And Rabbit Hunter. Small Varmints, If You Will.

Attaching The Word Marriage To The Association Of Same-sex Individuals Mistakenly Presumes That Marriage Is Principally A Matter Of Adult Benefits And Adult Rights. In Fact, Marriage Is Principally About The Nurturing And Development Of Children. And The Successful Development Of Children Is Critical To The Preservation And Success Of Our Nation.

Since Castro Took Power, The Cuban People Have Been Denied Basic Human Freedoms. No Freedom Of Religion, No Freedom Of The Press, No Political Freedom. And The Regime Uses Brutality And Violence To Suppress These Freedoms And Impose Its Will.

America Cannot Continue To Lead The Family Of Nations Around The World If We Suffer The Collapse Of The Family Here At Home.

You Know, Out-of-touch Liberals Like Barack Obama Say They Want A Strong Economy, But In Everything They Do, They Show They Don't Like Business Very Much. But The Economy, Of Course, Is Simply The Product Of All The Businesses Of The Nation Added Together. So It's A Bit Like Saying You Like An Omelet, But You Don't Like Eggs.

While I'm On Foreign Soil, I - I Just Don't Feel That I Should Be Speaking About Differences With Regards To Myself And President Obama On Foreign Policy, Either Foreign Policy Of The Past, Or For Foreign Policy Prescriptions.

You Don't Have To Be Larger Than Life To Be A Hero, Just Larger Than Yourself.

Larger Than Life

The Words Spoken By The Leader Of The Free World Can Expand The Frontiers Of Freedom Or Shrink Them.

When It Comes To Our Foreign Policy, Mitt Romney Seems To Want To Import The Foreign Policies Of The 1980s, Just Like The Social Policies Of The 1950s And The Economic Policies Of The 1920s.

There Are 47 Percent Of The People Who Will Vote For The President No Matter What. All Right, There Are 47 Percent Who Are With Him, Who Are Dependent Upon Government, Who Believe That They Are Victims, Who Believe That Government Has A Responsibility To Care For Them, Who Believe That They Are Entitled To Health Care, To Food, To Housing, To You Name It.

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