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I Want To Collect More Records From Terrorists, But Less Records From Innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment Was What We Fought The Revolution Over! John Adams Said It Was The Spark That Led To Our War For Independence, And I'm Proud Of Standing For The Bill Of Rights, And I Will Continue To Stand For The Bill Of Rights.

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I Want To Collect More Records From Terrorists, But Less Records From Innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment Was What We Fought The Revolution Over! John Adams Said It Was The Spark That Led To Our War For Independence, And I'm Proud Of Standing For The Bill Of Rights, And I Will Continue To Stand For The Bill Of Rights.

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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.'

If You Give Up Your Rights Now, Don’t Expect To Get Them Back.

I'll Do Anything To Try To Prevent John Bolton From Getting Any Position, Because I Think His World View Is Naive. He Believes We're Going To Spread Democracy. We're Going To Topple Governments Everywhere And They're Going To Elect Thomas Jefferson. That's Not The Way It Works In The Middle East.

Do We Fear Terrorism So Much That We Throw Out Our Constitution, And Are We Unwilling And Afraid To Debate Our Constitution?

To Me, There Is No Greater Threat Than Our Debt. I'm The Only Fiscal Conservative On The Stage Because I'm Willing To Hold The Line On All Spending.

It Is Impossible For African-americans Not To Feel Like Their Government Is Particularly Targeting Them.

African American

We Are More Polarized. And Some Of That Comes From The People And Some Of That Comes From The Media.

On Vague Wording Of Drone Strike Criteria: “are You Going To Just Drop A Hellfire Missile On Jane Fonda? Are You Going To Drop A Missile On Kent State? That’s Gobbledygook.

I Think That If You Believe In Regime Change, You're Mistaken. In 2013, We Put 600 Tons Of Weapons - Us, Saudi Arabia, And Qatar - Into The War Against [bashar] Assad. By Pushing Assad Back, We Did Create A Safe Space.

Right Now In The Insurance Markets, We Have Sort Of A Disaster Unfolding, A Downward Spiral, Adverse Selection, Premiums In The Individual Market Going Through The Roof. People Can't Afford Insurance And Insurance Companies Are Losing Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars. If You Repeal Part Of Obamacare To Get Rid Of The Individual Mandate But Keep Some Of The Ideas, That People Can Still Buy Insurance After They're Sick, The Situation Gets Extraordinarily Worse. And So What We're Seeing Now Could Be Tenfold Greater If You Only Repeal Part Of Obamacare.

I Don't Think I've Ever Used The Word 'gay Rights,' Because I Don't Really Believe In Rights Based On Your Behavior.

We Will Not Cut One Penny From The Safety Net Until We've Cut Every Penny From Corporate Welfare.

[marco] Rubio Says We Should Collect All Americans' Records All Of The Time. The Constitution Says Otherwise. I Think They're Both Wrong. I Think We Defeat Terrorism By Showing Them That We Do Not Fear Them.

I Don't Know About [rex] Tillerson, But I Do Know That John Bolton Doesn't Get It. He Still Believes In Regime Change. He's Still A Big Cheerleader For The Iraq War. He's Promoted A Nuclear Attack By Israel On Iran. He Wants To Do Regime Change In Iran. So, I Think John Bolton Is So Far Out Of It And Has Such A Naive Understanding Of The World. If He Were To Be The Assistant Or The Undersecretary For Tillerson, I'm An Out Automatic No On Bolton.

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.

I Think We Ought To Quit Sending [help] To Countries That Burn Our Flag.

Are You So Afraid That You Are Willing To Trade Your Freedom For Security?

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.

If Congress Refuses To Obey Its Own Rules. If Congress Refuses To Pass A Balanced Budget. If Congress Refuses To Read The Bills. Then I Say, Sweep The Place Clean, Limit Their Terms, And Send Them Home!

We Do Not Project Power From Bankruptcy Court. We're Borrowing A Million Dollars A Minute.

We Have 11 Million People Said To Be In Our Country Illegally. Forty Percent Of Them Are Said To Have Overstayed Their Visa. Do We Know Where They Are?

40 Percent Of People Who Come To Visit America On A Visa Overstay Their Visa And We Have No Idea Where They Are. On 9/11, At Least 2 Of The Hijackers Were Here On Visa. They Were Traveling Back And Forth To The Middle East. And We Really Had No Idea Where They Were Or What They Were Doing. And They Were Overstaying Their Visa. So There Are Problems I Think In The Immigration System That Need To Be Fixed For Our Safety.

Join Us In The Fight To Defeat The Washington Machine. It’s Fun And Easy To Get Started. You Can Make A Difference And Change The Direction Of Our Country! Join Today.

If You're White And You're Rich In The Usa, If You Get Busted For Drugs, You Get A Good Attorney, And You In All Likelihood Serve No Time. But If You're Poor, Black, Hispanic, Or Poor And White For That Matter, You Can Get Put In Jail.

If Americans Were Attacked, It Does Change The Equation. The Problem Is, Is That With Regard To This Is There've Been Horrendous Killings Of Civilians With Conventional Weapons.

Parents Own The Children, And It Is An Issue Of Freedom And Public Health.

The Gop Of Old Has Grown Old And Moss Covered.

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.

During The Great Depression African Americans Understood That Republicans Championed Citizenship And Voting Rights, But They Became Impatient For Economic Emancipation.

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

African American

We've Had Presidents That Have Put Their Stock Into Account And They Didn't Know What Their Stock Mix Was And I Like That. And I Think Donald Trump Has Agreed That He Would Do The Same On His Stock. He's Either Sold It Or Will Do It.

I Won't Support Any Budget, Whether It's A Republican Or A Democrat Budget, That Doesn't Lead To Balance.

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

The Other Thing I Said Is The Great Irony Is You Will Be Back Fighting Against Your Own Weapons. Had [bashar] Assad Been Bombed When He Used Chemical Weapons Two Years Ago, Isis Would Be In Charge Of All Of Syria Now.

The Fourth Amendment Was What We Fought The Revolution Over!

Fourth Amendment

I Think We Need To Treat Everybody With Dignity.

Democrats In Louisville Were Led By Courier-journal Editor Henry Watterson And Were Implacably Opposed To Blacks Voting.

I Think You'll Find That These Are Measures That Have Great Bipartisan Support, And So I Expect, Not Only Did We Do Well In The Primary, I Think We'll Win By A Wide Margin In The Fall Because We're Going To Get A Lot Of Independents And Conservative Democrats Coming To Us.

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.

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?

I Can Tell You Who's Planning Terroris Attacks. The Leaders Of Isil. And I Can Tell You Where They're At. They're In Raqqa, Syria. So For God's Sakes, Mr. President Barack Obama , Change Your Strategy. Come Up With A Ground Force To Go In And Destroy The Caliphate Before We Get Hit Here At Home. That Would Be My Advice To You.

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 Fundamental Problem Of Obamacare Is The Insurance Mandates. When You Mandate What Has To Be Insurance, It Elevates The Price. And When You Tell People They Can Buy Insurance After They're Sick, They Will. And You Get What's Called Adverse Selection.

I Think [donald Trump] Has To Do Everything He Can To Set Up A Firewall Between Him And His Businesses. But I Think It's Unrealistic For People To Be Saying, Oh, He Should Just Sell All Of His Businesses.

I Would Pay To Have Those Adjudications Enrolled Into The Federal Background System So We Could Detect People Who Are Mentally Ill Before They Buy A Gun. That Is A Real Problem.

The Constitution Was Not Written To Restrain The Citizen's Behavior, It Was Writtne To Restrain The Government's Behavior.

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.

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When I Asked The President [barack Obama], Can You Kill An American On American Soil, It Should Have Been An Easy Answer. It's An Easy Question. It Should Have Been A Resounding And Unequivocal No. The President's Response, He Hasn't Killed Anyone Yet.

I Want To Collect More Records From Terrorists, But Less Records From Innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment Was What We Fought The Revolution Over! John Adams Said It Was The Spark That Led To Our War For Independence, And I'm Proud Of Standing For The Bill Of Rights, And I Will Continue To Stand For The Bill Of Rights.

I Think We Need To Get To The Bottom Of It. And I Think There Should Be An Investigation [of Hackers Attacks] Because In Order To Defend Ourselves Against Other Adversarial Countries, We Have To Protect Our Information.

A Tea Party Tidal Wave Is Coming.

We Don't Have Enough Money To Rebuild Our Own Country If We're Rebuilding Everyone Else's Countries.

I Think That By Arming The Allies Of Isis, The Islamic Rebels Against [bashar] Assad, That We Created A Safe Space Or Made That Space Bigger For Isis To Grow.

We Shouldn't Have A Program Where We Just Say That We're Going To Take Care Of The World's Refugees. Nobody In The Middle East Is Doing Anything. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait - All The Gulf Nations Are Doing Nothing.

I Think If Russia Is Really An Honest Signatory To The Chemical Weapons Ban, If Syria Wants To Be, Ultimately Someone Has To Be Responsible For Killing Civilians. And That's The Hard Part Out Of This.

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

In 1997, I, Along With 200 Other Young Ophthalmologists Formed The National Board Of Ophthalmology To Protest The American Board Of Ophthalmology's Decision To Grandfather In The Older Ophthalmologists And Not Require Them To Recertify.

I'm In Favor Of Everything With Regards To Ending Institutional Racism.

Institutional Racism

The Question's Whether Or Not There's An American Interest In The Civil War [in Syria]. The Question Is Whether Or Not A Military Strike On [bashar] Assad Will Cause Him To Be Encouraged To Use More Weapons Or Discouraged. It's Easy Enough To Say - And The President [barack Obama] Says Though This Will Teach Him A Lesson - But His Military Strike Is Intended Not To Target Him Individually, Not To Bring About Regime Change.

Well, Let's Be Clear, I'm The Only One On The Stage Who Actually Has A Five-year Budget That Balances.

I Think My Dad Has Helped Me Tremendously.

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.

Let's Make The Haystack Smaller. Let's Say For A While, Until We Can Figure Out Who's Coming, Who's Going, And Who's Overstayed Their Visa, Let's Have Extra Scrutiny And Figure Out What's Going On, Because There's A Whole Segment Of The World That Is Intent On Sending People Here To Attack Us.

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.

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

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.

This Is An Ongoing Threat From A Variety Of Sources Around The World. And Actually I Think It Works Both Ways. I'm Not Privy To It, But I Think All Of The Various Country That Have The Ability Are Invading Each Other's Computers All The Time. But We Have To Protect Our Data. It's Very Important.

We Must Always Embrace Individual Liberty And Enforce The Constitutional Rights Of All Americans-rich And Poor, Immigrant And Native, Black And White.

Black And White

We Need A Revival In The Country,” Paul Said. “we Need Another Great Awakening With Tent Revivals Of Thousands Of People Saying, 'reform Or See What's Going To Happen If We Don't Reform.'

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.

I Tell People I Won't Vote To Go To War Unless I'm Ready To Go Or Send My Kids.

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.

There Comes A Time, In The History Of Nations When Fear And Forgetfulness Cause A Nation To Hesitate, To Waver And Perhaps Even To Succumb. When That Time Comes Those Who Love Liberty Must Rise To The Occasion. Will You? Will You Lovers Of Liberty, Will You Rise To The Occasion?

I Went To My First National Convention In 1976, When My Family Supported [ronald] Reagan Over [gerald] Ford, So We've Always Been Republicans, But We've Always Wanted The Republican Party To Be The Party Of Fiscally Conservative, Limited-government Types. And I Think, Sometimes, We Haven't Done That As Well.

I Will Tell , Though, That Donald Trump Got 70 Percent In Eastern Kentucky And I Don't Think It Had Anything To Do With The Russian. He Got 70 Percent Because In Eastern Kentucky We Didn't Like What President [barack] Obama Or Hillary Clinton Wanted To Do To Our Coal Jobs. It Didn't Have Anything To Do With The Russians.

What Most Americans Don't Realize Is There Is An Unholy Alliance. They Come Together. There's A Secret Handshake. We Spend More Money On Everything. And We Are Not Stronger Nation If We Go Further Into Debt. We Are Not Projecting Power From Bankruptcy Court.

We Shouldn't Be Fearful Of Freedom, We Shouldn't Be Fearful Of Individual Liberty.

I Love The Mexican People; I Respect The Mexican Leaders - But The Leaders Are Much Sharper, Smarter And More Cunning Than Our [american] Leaders.

My Belief Has Always Been That National Defense Is The Most Important Thing We Do, But We Shouldn't Borrow To Pay For It.

If I Were To Look At Foreign Policy, I Would Say John Mccain Has Been Wrong On Just About Everything Over The Last Four Decades.

When The Government Tries To Invade The Church To Enforce Its Own Opinion On [gay] Marriage, That's When It's Time To Resist.

I Think Saudi Arabia Often Finances Radical Islam And The Teaching Of Hatred To The West And Hatred Of Americans. I Think It Is Important That We Know That. It's Important That We Know That There Is A Threat Within And A Threat Without. I Think We Can Stop It With More Aggressive Use Of Actual Constitutional Tools.

We Have Islamic Rebels [in Syria] Who've Been Eating The Hearts Or Organs Of Their Enemies. We Have Priests That Have Been Killed. We Have Christian Villages That Have Been Razed By Islamic Rebels. We Have Islamic Rebels Who Say They Don't Recognize Israel And Would Just As Soon Attack Israel As [bashar] Assad. So Really, I See No Clear-cut American Interest, And I'm Afraid That Sometimes Things Unravel, And The Situation Could Become Less Stable And Not More Stable.

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.

Our Legislative Victory - An End To Earmarks.

The Vast Majority Of My Time Is Traveling And Talking About The Issues. It Isn't Really Calling And Asking For Money.

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.

Is Donald Trump A Serious Candidate? The Reason I Ask This Is, If You're Going To Close The Internet, Realize, America, What That Entails. That Entails Getting Rid Of The First Amendment, Ok? It's No Small Feat.

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.'

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.

People Who Want To Come To This Country Don't Have Constitutional Rights. Once They Get Here, They Do. But Coming Here Is Not A Constitutional Right. So With Do, As A Nation, Have The Ability And Should Have The Ability To Decide Who Comes Here And When They Come Here.

These Attacks Prove One Thing For Certain: The Liberal Establishment Is Desperate To Keep Leaders Like Me Out Of Office, And We Are Sure To Hear More Wild, Dishonest Smears During This Campaign.

If I Had Been Told To Get Out Of The Street As A Teenager, There Would Have Been A Distinct Possibility That I Might Have Smarted Off. But, I Wouldn’t Have Expected To Be Shot.

I Need To Be Very Careful About Going On Certain Networks That Seem To Have A Bias.

The Most Important Thing You Will Do Is Yet To Be Seen. For Me, I Found My Important Thing To Do When I Learned To Do Surgery On The Eye, When I Learned To Restore A Person's Vision.

Perhaps It Is Time To Be More Careful What We Ask Government To Do, And Where We Allow It To Become Part Of Our Lives.

I Do Believe People Ought To Be Left Alone. I Don't Care Who You Are Or What You Do At Home Or Who Your Friends Are Or Where You Hang Out, What Kind Of Music You Listen To, What You Do In Your Home Is Your Own Business. That's Always Been Who I Am. I Am A Leave Me Alone Kind Of Guy.

My Worry Now Is That Many People Are Talking About A Partial Repeal Of Obamacare. If You Only Repeal Part Of It And You Leave If Some Sort Of Obamacare Light, Which Some Are Talking About, My Fear Is The Situation Actually Gets Worse.

I'm A Different Kind Of Republican. I've Introduced A Five-year Balanced Budget. I've Introduced The Largest Tax Cut In Our History. I Stood For Ten And A Half Hours On The Senate Floor To Defend Your Right To Be Left Alone. But I've Also Gone To Chicago. I've Gone To Detroit. I've Been To Ferguson, I've Been To Baltimore, Because I Want Our Party To Be Bigger, Better And Bolder...

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."

I'm An Internationalist. I Want To Help Others, Not Just Kill Terrorists.

The 11 Million, I Think, Are Never Going Home, Don't Need To Be Sent Home, And I Would Incorporate Them Into Our Society By Giving Them Work Visas And Making Them Taxpayers.

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.

I Think There's Evil On Both Sides [of Syria], And I Think That's One Reason I Don't Want To Be Involved In Civil War. I See Things In Personal Terms. I Just Can't See Sending One Of My Sons - Or Your Son Or Daughter - To Fight In A Civil War, Where On One Side We Have A Dictator, Who In All Likelihood Gassed His People.

No President Has The Right To Say He Is Judge, Jury And Executioner.

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

We're For The Balanced Budget Amendment And Yet The Budget We're Going To Introduce, That We're Going To Repeal Obamacare With Never Balances.

What I Say Is, National Defense Is The Most Important Thing We Do In Washington, But There's Still Waste In The Military Budget.

To Put Everyone In Government Housing And Food Stamps And Bring Them In From Around The World I Think Is A Mistake. To Give Of Your Own Money, I've Given To My Church. My Church Has Helped People That Came From Bosnia. That's A Good Thing.

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.

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.

In A Reality, What We Should Be Doing Is Having Quiet Diplomacy With The Russians To Convince Them That It's In Their Self-interest To Have A More Stable Middle East Because Trade Enriches Us All.

Every Chance At Destabilizing [bashar] Assad... The Bombing Campaign Causes A Flood Of Refugees Into Jordan, There's Already Half A Million In Jordan. I Think A Bombing Campaign - I Think It's Hard To Argue That A U.s. Bombing Campaign Is Going To Cause Less Refugees. And I Think It Causes More Refugees And More Of A Humanitarian Disaster. I Think It Causes, Or Allows, The Risk Of Israel Being Attacked With A Gas Attack To Go Up, If We Attack Assad. So There's All Kinds Of Bad Things.

I Don't Think He Fully Analyzes The Situation. If You Destabilize [bashar] Assad And Punish Assad, You Do Embolden Terrorists. You Embolden Al-qaida Because Al-qaida Is On The Other Side Of This War. So, One Side Wins If You Destabilize The Other Side. So, He Will Be Emboldening Al-qaida And The Islamic Rebels. And I'm Not So Sure They're Better Than Assad.

The Current Budget That The Republicans Are Looking At Never Balances. How Can That Be Fiscally Responsible? And How Can We Look At The Public With A Straight Face And Say Yes We Ran On Balanced Budgets.

We Should Not Have Drug Laws Or A Court System That Disproportionately Punishes The Black Community.

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.

As Our Voices Rise In Protest, The Nsa Monitors Your Every Phone Call. If You Have A Cell Phone, You Are Under Surveillance. I Believe What You Do On Your Cell Phone Is None Of Their Damn Business.

How Much Liberty Do With Want To Give Up For A False Sense Of Security?

We Didn't Create Isis - Isis Created Themselves, But We Will Stop Them, And One Of The Ways We Stop Them Is By Not Funding Them, And Not Arming Them.

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

We Should Understand The Limitations Of War. We Should Understand The Sacrifices Our Young Men And Women Go Through Losing Lives And Limbs. And They Should Only Do It For The Highest Of Purposes.

Out Of Regime Change You Get Chaos. From The Chaos You Have Seen Repeatedly The Rise Of Radical Islam. So We Get This Profession Of, Oh, My Goodness, They Want To Do Something About Terrorism And Yet They're The Problem Because They Allow Terrorism To Arise Out Of That Chaos.

Foreign Aid Is Not Something The Vast Majority Of Americans Support, But Definitely Not Conservatives.

I Don't Care If You're A Republican Or A Democrat, There Is Something Profoundly Un-american About Using The Brute Force Of Government To Bully Someone.

For Example, The Use Of Chemical Weapons [in Syria]- Some On The Democrat Side Have Said Well, This Encourages The North Koreans To Use Chemical Weapons Against Our Troops.

The Problem Or The Fundamental Flaw Of Obamacare Was That They Put Regulations On The Insurance, About 12 Regulations, Which Increased The Cost Of The Insurance. And So President Obama Wanted To Help Poor, Working-class People, But He Actually Hurts Them By Making The Insurance Too Expensive To Want To Buy. I Had Someone At The House Just Recently Was Doing Some Work, And He Said: "oh, My Son Doesn't Have Insurance, He's Paying The Penalty Because It's Too Expensive."

I Think Those Who Have Wanted Regime [of Bashar Assad] Change Have Made A Mistake.

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

I Don't Plan On Being Bashful.

I Think There's A Racial Outcome To A Lot Of What Goes In America, But I Don't Think Race Is Always The Reason.

You Need To Have People Within Your Own Party That Have The Wherewithal To Stand Up To You.

I Was Told I Got 10 Measly Minutes, But Just In Case, I Brought 13 Hours Worth Of Material.

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

Separation Of Powers

I Think It's A Huge Mistake. I Think Regime Change In Syria, And This Is What - I've Been Saying This For Several Years Now. In 2013 When We First Went In, I Said, You Are Going To Give Arms To The Allies Of Al Qaida, To Radical Jihadists? That's Crazy.

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 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.

I Don't Think Edward Snowden Deserves A Death Penalty Or Life In Prison. I Think That's Inappropriate. I Think That's Why He Fled, [because] That Is What He Faced.

You Either Believe In The Constitution, Or You Don't.

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 Idea Of Foreign Policy Realism, I Think, Fits More Neatly With President Trump. And With John Mccain, The Neoconservative Label Of Let's Make The World Safe For Democracy And We're Going To Topple Every Regime Hasn't Worked.

I Have A Great Deal Of Concern For Any President And The Amount Of Power They Accumulate Versus Congress. I'm A Stickler About The Idea Of Separation Of Powers.

How Did The Party That Elected The First Black U.s. Senator, The Party That Elected The First 20 African-american Congressmen, How Did That Party Become A Party That Now Loses 95 Percent Of The Black Vote?

What I Don't Like From The President's Administration Is This Sort Of, 'i'll Put My Boot Heel On The Throat Of Bp.' I Think That Sounds Really Un-american In His Criticism Of Business. And I Think It's Part Of This Sort Of Blame-game Society In The Sense That It's Always Got To Be Someone's Fault Instead Of The Fact That Sometimes Accidents Happen.

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

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

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.

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

Gun Control Is Not Part Of A Strategy To Defeat Radical Islam Or Take Isil Down. However It Is A Problem Back Here At Home. A Million People Have Been Adjudicated A Danger To Themselves Or To Others At The State Court Level.

I Read All Of Ayn Rand's Novels When I Was 17.

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

This Flirtation With Isolationism In The Republican Party Is Over. It's Giving Way To A More Muscular Foreign Policy Than I've Been Advocating. But I'm Also Advocating Building Up Others. Build A Small Schoolhouse In Afghanistan To Help A Poor Young Girl Have A Say About Her Children Will Destroy The Ideology More Than A Bomb.

You Know, When Republicans Were In Charge, We Doubled The Debt. But, Now, Our Concern Is The Democrats Are In Charge And They're Tripling The Debt. So, Really, Our Concern Is That We Want Smaller Government.

Foreign Aid Goes From Poor People In Rich Countries To Rich People In Poor Countries.

I Don't Think We're Actually Using The Constitutional Tools That We Have In An Appropriate Fashion.

If I Have A Weakness, It's That I Try To Live By The Rules. I Try To Live By The Rules, No Matter What They Are, And I Was Brought Up That Way As A Kid. Play By The Rules.

Just Because A Couple People On The Supreme Court Declare Something To Be 'constitutional' Does Not Make It So.

I Worry That The Senate Is Working To Consider A Series Of Little-noticed Provisions In Comprehensive Immigration Reform That May Provide A Pathway To A National Id Card For All Individuals Present In The United States - Citizens And Noncitizens.

Who Gets To Decide Who's An Enemy Combatant And Who's An American Citizen? Are We Really So Frightened And So Easily Frightened That We Would Give Up A Thousand-year History?

If Our Freedom Is Taken, The American Dream Will Wither And Die.

You Don't Go Into Politics Unless You Want To Win.

I Have A Question, A Question For The President: Do You Hate All Rich People, Or Just Rich People Who Don't Contribute To Your Campaign? Do You Hate Poor People Or Do You Just Hate Poor People With Jobs?

When You Ask Yourself, Whoever You Are, That Think You're Going To Support Donald Trump, Think, Do You Believe In The Constitution? Are You Going To Change The Constitution?

We All Either Work For Rich People Or We Sell Stuff To Rich People, So Just Punishing Rich People Is As Bad For The Economy As Punishing Anyone. Let's Not Punish Anyone.

You Can Be Strong Without Being Involved In Every Single Civil War Around The World.

Roll Back Federal Spending To 2008 Levels.

Federal Spending

We Must Protect Ourselves From Jihadis Without Losing Ourselves.

Losing Ourselves

I Say The Phone Records Of Law Abiding Citizens Are None Of Their Damn Business!

Some In Washington Say That You Have To Trade Your Liberty For Security.

My First Choice Had Always Been My Father. He's Still My First Pick. Now That The Nominating Process Is Over, Tonight, I'm Happy To Announce That I'm Going To Be Supporting Governor Romney.

The Government Has Investigated Our Program Of Collecting Through A Generalized Fashion, Everyone's Phone Records In The Country. And They Found That No Terrorist Case Has Been Thwarted Through This.

I Don't Like The Idea Of Telling Private Business Owners. I Abhor Racism. I Think It's A Bad Business Decision To Ever Exclude Anybody From Your Restaurant. But At The Same Time I Do Believe In Private Ownership. I Think There Should Be Absolutely No Discrimination In Anything That Gets Public Funding.

I Think We Have A Tea Party Mandate, And That Tea Party Mandate Is For Good-government Type Of Things, Things Like Term Limits, Things Like A Balanced Budget Amendment, Things Like Read The Bills For Goodness Sakes, Things Like That Maybe Congress Should Only Pass Legislation That They Apply To Themselves As Well.

You Shouldn't Have One Opinion When You're Running And Another When You're President.

If Someone Has Ebola At A Cocktail Party They're Contagious And You Can Catch It From Them.

America's Not The World's Policeman. Terrible Things Happen Across The Globe And It Is Beyond Our Means To Right Every Wrong. But When, With Modest Effort And Risk, We Can Stop Children From Being Gassed To Death And Thereby Make Our Own Children Safer Over The Long Run, I Believe We Should Act.

There Was A Conservative Consensus For An Amendment I Put Forward Called Trust, But Verify That Would Have Strengthened Border Security On Both Refugees, Students And Those Coming Here. And Marco Sided And I Guess Was More Sympathetic To Chuck Schumer And To The President Than He Was To Conservative Principles.

[john] Bolton Is So Far Out There, He`s Advocating Bombing Everyone In The World.

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.

This Whole Sort Of 'war On Women' Sort Of Thing, I'm Scratching My Head Because If There Was A War On Women, I Think They Won.

You Don't Win As A Party Unless You Become A Bigger Party.

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

I Think When People Voted For Donald Trump, They Realized He Owned A Lot Of Stuff With His Name On It. I Think The Concern Over Conflict Of Interest Seems To Be Higher In The Media Than The Public. People Saying, Oh, He Has To Sell All Of His Stuff.

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.

Giving Someone A One-time Stimulus Check, Or A One-time Tax Cut That Expires Doesn't Allow The Predictability That Business Needs.

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

I'm Not In Favor Of Any Discrimination Of Any Form.

I Would Set Aside All These Budget Cuts That Are Going To Devastate The F.b.i., The C.i.a., And The N.s.a. Sequestration, Cuts, Are Not Only Gutting The Military, They're Gutting The F.b.i. So If I Were President, I Would Set These Cuts Aside. I Would Reinstate The N.s.a. Program As Robust As Possible Within The Constitutional Limits.

Let's Start That Conversation By Acknowledging We Aren't Going To Deport 12 Million Illegal Immigrants. If You Wish To Work, If You Wish To Live And Work In America, Then We Will Find A Place For You.

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

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.

How Would You Possibly Sell 700 Companies In A Fire Sale And Hope To Get What They Were Worth?it's Just An Unrealistic Sort Of Standard They're Trying To Hold [donald Trump] To.

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

Bipartisanship Is Not What Is Missing In Washington. Common Sense Is.

On The Gang Of Eight Bill, There Was No Provisions Really For Extra Scrutiny Or Safety For Refugees. At The Time The Bill Came Up, Two Iraqi Refugees Came To My Home Town, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Their Fingerprints Were On A Bomb From Iraq. They Were In The Database, But We Didn't Pick Them Up.

I Would Have Voted 'no' On The Iraq War And 'yes' To Afghanistan.

A Free Society Will Abide Unofficial, Private Discrimination, Even When That Means Allowing Hate-filled Groups To Exclude People Based On The Color Of Their Skin.

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

We Should Not Have The U.s. Government Buying Stock In American Industries - The Financial Industry Or Any Other Industry.

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