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I Will Conduct A Respectful Debate. Now, It Will Be Dispirited -- It Will Be Spirited -- Because There Are Stark Differences. I Am A Proud Conservative, Liberal Republica-- Conservative Republican...hello? Easy There.

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I Will Conduct A Respectful Debate. Now, It Will Be Dispirited -- It Will Be Spirited -- Because There Are Stark Differences. I Am A Proud Conservative, Liberal Republica-- Conservative Republican...hello? Easy There.

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We Must Win In Iraq. If We Withdraw, There Will Be Chaos, There Will Be Genocide, And They Will Follow Us Home.

Nothing In Life Is More Liberating Than To Fight For A Cause Larger Than Yourself, Something That Encompasses You But Is Not Defined By Your Existence Alone.

The Core Political Values Of Our Free Society Are So Deeply Embedded In Our Collective Consciousness That Only A Few Malcontents, Lunatics Generally, Ever Dare To Threaten Them.

Every Time There's Been An Out-of-bounds Remark Made By A Republican, No Matter Where They Are, I Have Repudiated Them.

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It Is Illegal For Children To Purchase Tobacco In Every State In The Country. And In Every State ... Tobacco Companies Have Invested Enormous Sums Of Money And Time To Encourage Widespread Lawbreaking.

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I Wrestled And Played Football In High School And In My Last Year, I Started As A Wrestler And Actually Had A Fairly Good Record. But I Hated To Lose. I Always Gave It Everything I Had Which, Unfortunately, Was Not As Much As I'd Hoped For. But Keep In Mind, I Feel Like I Got The Most Out Of My Ability. One Moment That Was Special Above All The Rest Was Winning My Last Bout At The Naval Academy To Finish The Entire Summer Undefeated. That Was Thrilling, But What's More, It Helped Me In Prison Because The First Time I Got Knocked Around By The Vietnamese, It Did Not Come As A Total Shock.

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There Are Neighborhoods In Baghdad Where You And I Could Walk Through Those Neighborhoods Today.

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At Least I Don’t Plaster On The Makeup Like A Trollop, You Cunt.

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Our Political Differences, Now Matter How Sharply They Are Debated, Are Really Quite Narrow In Comparison To The Remarkably Durable National Consensus On Our Founding Convictions.

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What If There's Another Terrorist Attack? I Cringe At The Ideas Of Our Enemies Watching This, Knowing Much Like The President We Have Now. You Can Do Anything You Want, You Can Jerk Us Around, You Can Harass Our Naval Ships The Way Iran Is Doing Right Now, And We're Not Going To Do Anything. We're Not Going To React.

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Giving Peace A Chance Only Gives Saddam Hussein More Time To Prepare For War On His Terms, At A Time Of His Choosing, In Pursuit Of Ambitions That Will Only Grow As His Power To Achieve Them Grows.

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We Are Taught To Understand, Correctly, That Courage Is Not The Absence Of Fear, But The Capacity For Action Despite Our Fears.

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I Don’t E-mail, I’ve Never Felt The Particular Need To E-mail.

We Make The Future Better Than The Past. We Don't Hide From History. We Make History.

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All This Money Washing Around Washington And All Of These Contributions Taint All Of Us.

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There's Two Ways Of Working In Washington, ... One Is To Go Along And Get Along. The Other Is To Stand Up For What You Believe In.

I Campaigned In 2012 All Over This Country For Months: 'repeal And Replace Obamacare.' That Was Not The Mandate Of The Voters. If They Wanted To Repeal Obamacare, The 2012 Election Would Have Been Probably Significantly Different.

War Is Wretched Beyond Description, And Only A Fool Or A Fraud Could Sentimentalize Its Cruel Reality.

Suppose That Climate Change Is Not Real And All We Do Is Adopt Green Technologies, Which Our Economy And Our Technology Is Perfectly Capable Of. Then All We've Done Is Given Our Kids A Cleaner World.

The United States Of American Business Pays The Second-highest Business Taxes In The World, 35 Percent. Ireland Pays 11 Percent. Now, If You're A Business Person, And You Can Locate Any Place In The World, Then, Obviously, If You Go To The Country Where It's 11 Percent Tax Versus 35 Percent, You're Going To Be Able To Create Jobs, Increase Your Business, Make More Investment, Et Cetera. I Want To Cut That Business Tax. I Want To Cut It So That Businesses Will Remain In The United States Of America And Create Jobs.

Bashar Assad Is A Major Cause Of The Refugees Which Are Now Flooding Europe And Causing Such Consternation In The United States.

I Watch Sports All The Time. My Wife Cindy Says I Would Watch The Thumb-suckers Play The Bed-wetters. I Watch All Sports And I Enjoy All Sports. It's Been Great Fun In My Life And A Great Diversion.

I Have Said For A Long Time That I Thought The President Would Be Best Served If The Attorney General Resigned So I Think It's The Right Thing To Do.

I Am Confident, With The Leadership And The Backing Of The American People, President Obama Will Turn This Country Around.

An Act Of Heroism, Of Extraordinary Courage, The Grandeur Of It, Won't Easily Inspire Us To Act In Imitation, But It Can Inspire Us To Emulate Its Author. For That, We Should Learn What We Can Of The Whole Experience Of The Subject, The Hero's Life, As It Was Before And After, And Believe That Trying To Emulate The Character It Reveals Is One Tried Way To Prepare For The Tests That Might Await Us And Gain Hope That Our Courage Will Not Be Wanting In The Moment.

There Are 11 Million People Living In The Shadows. I Believe They Deserve To Come Out Of The Shadows. The Children Who Are Brought Here When They Were Children, They Deserve That Kind Of Consideration As Well.

I Asked That I Not Be Considered For Vice President Of The United States.

For Decades We Have Been Living Lives Of Abundance, With Little Regard For Our Natural Resources Or Global Health. But We Are Now Facing Hard Choices In Our Energy Policy. Future Generations - My Children And Grandchildren, Along With Yours - Will Have To Live With The Decisions We Make Today. And So It Is Time For Us To Make Some Tough And - Hopefully - Smart Choices Regarding Our Energy Use And Production Before It Is Too Late.

Torture Gives You Reliable And Unreliable Information. That's The Reason Why Most People In The World Don't Do It. So This Idea That You Have To Torture People In Order To Protect National Security Is A False Argument, And I Reject It.

If The United States Had Not Intervened In Afghanistan, Then Obviously, We Would Have Then Allowed The Attacks Of 9/11 To Go Unanswered. I Don't Think Most Of Americans Wanted That To Happen.

The First Pork-barrel Bill That Crosses My Desk, I'm Going To Veto It And Make The Authors Of Those Pork-barrel Items Famous All Over America.

I Spent Five And A Half Years In Prison. The Worst Part Was Coming Home And Finding Out Green Acres Had Been Cancelled. What The Hell Was I Fighting For?

Some Urge We Do Nothing Because We Can't Be Certain How Bad The (climate) Problem Might Become Or They Presume The Worst Effects Are Most Likely To Occur In Our Grandchildren's Lifetime. I'm A Proud Conservative, And I Reject That Kind Of Live-for-today, 'me Generation,' Attitude. It Is Unworthy Of Us And Incompatible With Our Reputation As Visionaries And Problem Solvers. Americans Have Never Feared Change. We Make Change Work For Us.

I've Seen Enough Killing In My Life. I Know How Precious Human Life Is And I Don't Need A Lecture From You.

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My Preference Would Be To Remain In The Senate, ... But You Can't Say I Would Refuse To Serve In One Of Those (cabinet) Capacities. It's Not The Same As Vice President.

Many Good People Mistake Their Reputation For Their Character. It Is A Mistake I Have Made Many, Many Times.

Many Of The Countries Outpacing The United States In The Deployment Of High Speed Internet Services, Including Canada, Japan And South Korea, Have Successfully Combined Municipal Systems With Privately Deployed Networks To Wire Their Countries, .. As A Country, We Cannot Afford To Cut Off Any Successful Strategy If We Want To Remain Internationally Competitive.

I Am Learning To Get Online Myself, And I Will Have That Down Fairly Soon, Getting On Myself.

The Fact That We Did Not Give The Demonstrators In Iran Our Moral Support When A Young Woman Named Neda Bled To Death In The Streets Of Iran Will Go Down As One Of The Great Mistakes Of The 21st Century.

It's Pretty Clear We Have Enough Guard People In The United States, But Are They Capable Of Handling Our Oversees Commitments As Well? We Need To Figure Out How That Impacts Our Ability In Iraq.

There Is No Doubt In My Mind That Rudy Giuliani In The Senate Will Be A Leader For The People Of New York But Also For The People Of Arizona And The People All Over This Country.

I Am Sure That Senator Clinton Would Make A Good President. I Have No Doubt That Senator Clinton Would Make A Good President.

God May Have Mercy, But We Won't.

Efforts To Bring About Democracy Have Hit A Wall And Are Going Backwards.

Democracies Have

Americans Have Gotten To Know Sarah Palin. They Know That She's A Role Model To Women And Other - And Reformers All Over America. She's A Reformer.

I Want To Emphasis Again, Governor (thomas) Kean And Congressman (lee) Hamilton Pointed Out That Congressional Oversight Also Was A Major Contributor To Our Failures Prior To 9/11 And That Has To Be Fixed As Well.

I, 100 Percent Don't Think That's Where The American People At, Because When There's Viral Pictures As A Baby Is In Aleppo With, You Know, Rubble All Over Them Going Viral, And Then There Are Celebrities Tweeting Why Haven't We Done Nothing About This? And Like, Oh, There Are Actually Many People For Years Who've Been Trying To Send Aid Then And This President Won't Let Us.

We Cannot Forever Hide The Truth About Ourselves From Ourselves.

Inexperience Because Of (president Barack) Obama's Inexperience.look That Would Be One Of The Challenges.

I'm As Frustrated With The French, I Think, As Anyone, But Look, There's Going To Be Other Challenges And There Are Going To Be Other Issues. As Long As There's A War On Terrorism Going On, We're All Going To Have To Work Together.

I Was An Addict. That's Why, ... I Tell You, Addiction Is A Very Cunning Enemy.

We Are United In A Wait-and-see Approach.

And We Are In A Strange Conundrum. You Can Kill An American Citizen Overseas. But According To This Administration, If You Capture Him In The United States, They've Got To Be Read Their Miranda Rights.

A Man I Admire And Respect - Congressman John Lewis, An American Hero, Made Allegations That Sarah Palin And I Were Somehow Associated With The Worst Chapter In American History, Segregation, Deaths Of Children In Church Bombings, George Wallace. That, To Me, Was So Hurtful.

All Interested Parties Must Be Willing To Make Significant Sacrifices.

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Working Together

I Think That Decisions Should Rest In The Hands Of The States. I'm A Federalist.

Now That We Have The Line-item Veto There Is No Excuse For Congress To Put Pork In And No Reason For The President Not To Line-item Veto It Out.

Congress And The American People Have Good Reason To Fear That We Are Heading Toward Another Permanent Garrison Of Americans In A Balkan Country Where Our Mission Is Confused, And Our Exit Strategy A Complete Mystery.

I Have Said Many Times In The Past I Don't Choose To Be Vice President, Either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian Or Vegetarian.

I Don't Use Coarse Language Very Often. I Have A Larger Vocabulary Than That.

Remember The Words Of Chairman Mao: 'it's Always Darkest Before It's Totally Black.'.

Barbara Boxer Is The Most Bitterly Partisan, Most Anti-defense Senator In The United States Senate Today. I Know That Because I've Had The Unpleasant Experience Of Having To Serve With Her.

It Seems To Me That President Carter Has Earned His Place As If Not The Worst President In History, The Worst President Of The 20th Century.

Washington Is A Hollywood For Ugly People. Hollywood Is A Washington For The Simpleminded.

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I Think My Major Challenge, Very Frankly, Is To Maintain The Traction, ... I've Seen Many Campaigns Here In The State Of New Hampshire Look Good For A While, And Then The Air Comes Out Of The Balloon.

We Are Americans First, Americans Last, Americans Always... Let Us Argue Our Differences. But Remember We Are Not Enemies, But Comrades In A War Against A Real Enemy...

If Money Is Free Speech, The Big Interests Are Sitting In Front With Megaphones And The Average Citizens Are Sitting In The Back.

Some Of Us Are More Favorably Disposed Than Others.

As Long As Americans Are Not Being Injured Or Harmed Or Wounded Or Killed, It's Fine With Me And I Hope It Would Be Fine With You If We Maintain A Presence In A Very Volatile Part Of The World Where Al Qaeda Is Training, Recruiting, Equipping And Motivating People Every Single Day.

I Strongly Support The Second Amendment And I Believe The Second Amendment Ought To Be Preserved - Which Means No Gun Control.

The 'main Street' Retailers ... See Customers Come To The Store To Locate Items ... Only To Leave And Order The Items Over The Internet Just To Escape The Sales Tax.

The World Is On Fire.

I Don't Doubt The Sincerity Of My Democratic Friends. And They Should Not Doubt Ours.

Thank God For The Saudis And Prince Bandar, And For Our Qatari Friends.

I Think We Need To Address Greenhouse Gas Emissions. But I Try To Get Involved In Issues Where I See A Legislative Result... So I Just Leave The Issue Alone Because I Don't See A Way Through It, And There Are Certain Fundamentals, For Example Nuke Power, That People On The Left Will Never Agree With Me On. So Why Should I Waste My Time When I Know The People On The Left Are Going To Reject Nuclear Power?

If We Leave Iraq, Terrorists Will Follow Us Home.

We Must Be True To Ourselves. And We Must Be True To Others, Whether They Believe We Are Or Not.

Sooner Or Later, People Are Going To Figure Out If All You Run Is Negative Attack Ads You Don’t Have Much Of A Vision For The Future Or You’re Not Ready To Articulate It.

I'm Going To Be Honest: I Know A Lot Less About Economics Than I Do About Military And Foreign Policy Issues. I Still Need To Be Educated.

We Need Not Risk Our National Honor To Prevail In This Or Any War.

What Evidence Do We Have That States Are Incapable Of Further Exercising An Authority They Have Exercised Successfully For Over 200 Years?

Let Me Say That No One Has Supported President Bush On Iraq More Than I Have.

And By The Way, I Would Not Only Reappoint Greenspan; If Greenspan Would Happen To Die, God Forbid, I Would Do Like They Did In The Movie 'weekend At Bernie's.' I Would Prop Him Up And Put A Pair Of Dark Glasses On Him.

Democrats Proposing Failure In Iraq By Withdrawing.

I'm Not Running For President Because I Think I'm Blessed With Such Personal Greatness That History Has Anointed Me To Save Our Country In Its Hour Of Need. My Country Saved Me. My Country Saved Me, And I Cannot Forget It. And I Will Fight For Her For As Long As I Draw Breath, So Help Me God.

I Have The Utmost Confidence In General Mattis, General Flynn, General Kelly, Dan Coates. I Couldn't Have Picked A Better Team. And So I'm Confident That Donald Trump Will Listen To Them And Be Guided By Them.

I Admire Obama, And I Like Him. I Think He Has A Great Deal Of Talent. He Should Be Applauded For His Eloquence And For His Ability To Motivate Millions.

Round Up And Deport Two Million Aliens Who Committed Crimes.

On My Honor, I Swear To You, That From My First Day In Office To The Last Breath I Draw, I Will Do Everything In My Power To Make You Proud Of Your Government.

But I Also Want To Change The Dynamics Of This Debate, Which Has Kept Us Gridlocked Into Positions Which Caused People To Shoot At Abortion Clinics And Other Americans To View It As The Only Issue In American Politics, ... There Are Areas We Can Agree On. ... We Need To Work Together To Eliminate Abortion.

(obama) Really Has No Experience Or Knowledge Or Judgment About The Issue Of Iraq And He Has Wanted To Surrender For A Long Time.

Presidential Ambition Is A Disease That Can Only Be Cured By Embalming Fluid.

Europeans Are Greater Than They Have Been Since Any Time Since The End Of The Cold War.

Courage Is The Enforcing Virtue, The One That Makes Possible All The Other Virtues Common To Exceptional Leaders: Honesty, Integrity, Confidence, Compassion And Humility

3 "amnesty" Didn't Mean Rewarding Illegal Behavior.

America's Image Throughout The World Is Very Bad.

Do You Know Why Chelsea Clinton Is So Ugly? Because Janet Reno Is Her Father.

I Can't Believe A Guy That Handsome Wouldn't Have Some Impact.

So Ahmadinejad Wants To Be The First Iranian In Space - Wasn't He There Just Last Week? 'iran Launches Monkey Into Space.'

I Would Like To Mention That A Couple Days Ago Senator Obama Was Out In Ohio And He Had An Encounter With A Guy Who's A Plumber, His Name Is Joe Wurzelbacher.

In The View Of Everyone, I Am A Viable Candidate And I Should Be On The Ballot.

The Abuse Of Prisoners Hurts America's Cause In The War On Terror, Endangers Us Service Members Who Might Be Captured By The Enemy, And Is Anathema To The Values Americans Have Held Dear For Generations.

In Our Blessed And Mostly Peaceful Society We're Not As Familiar With Courage As We Once Were. We Ascribe The Virtue To All Manner Of Endeavors That Only Really Require Skill, Fortitude And A Little Daring, The Qualities Pat Tillman Showed On The Football Field. Pat's Best Service To His Country Was To Remind Us All What Courage Really Looks Like, And That The Purpose Of All Good Courage Is Love.

We Ought To Pay Down The National Debt, ... The American People Are Tired Of People Who Make Promises About Cutting Taxes That They Cannot Keep.

I 'don't See How It Matters' That I Don't Know The Price Of Gas.

The Question Is Not Whether You Would Like To Be President Or Not. The Question Is: Do You Think You Can Win And Do You Want To Run? And None Of Those Are Clear To Me.

Our Nation Has Both An Obligation And Self-interest In Facing Head-on The Serious Environmental, Economic And National Security Threat Posed By Global Warming.

Subjecting Prisoners To Abuse Leads To Bad Intelligence, Because Under Torture A Detainee Will Tell His Interrogator Anything To Make The Pain Stop. Second, Mistreatment Of Our Prisoners Endangers U.s. Troops Who Might Be Captured By The Enemy – If Not In This War, Then In The Next. And Third, Prisoner Abuses Exact On Us A Terrible Toll In The War Of Ideas, Because Inevitably These Abuses Become Public.

I Think Where [donald Trump] Loses Most Hawkish Republicans Is When He Talking About How Much He Likes [vladimir] Putin. That Should Make Any Person Who Believe In The American Exceptionalism, Incredibly Uncomfortable.

Does It Make All The Difference In The World? No. But There's A Great Deal Of Symbolism Associated With Whether We're Going To Add $24 Billion To The Debt In Unwanted And Unnecessary Pork-barrel Projects.

Both Candidates In This Election [2004] Pledge To End This War And Bring Our Troops Home. The Great Difference - The Great Difference Is That I Intend To Win It First.

Reform, Prosperity, And Peace, These Are Major Challenges To The United States Of America. I Don't Think I Need Any On-the-job Training. I'm Ready To Go At It Right Now.

They're All Tied Together: Taxes, Medicare, Social Security, And The Debt. We've Got To Have A Setting Of Priorities, And Looking At It - At Each Of Them As Disconnected, I Think, Doesn't Properly Address These Major Challenges.

Russia Has Now Become A Nation Fueled By Petro-dollars That Is Basically A Kgb Apparatchik-run Government.

Iran Launches Monkey Into Space

Hillary [clinton] Saying We're Never Going To Put Boots On The Ground In Iraq, We Never Going To Put Boots On The Ground In Syria Petrified Me, Simply Because, Why - What If This Continues Despite Out Of Control.

I Think We've Got To Make A Case That I'm Ready, That I Put My Country First, And It's Time To Put Aside Partisan Rancor And Differences And Work Together For The Country And That I Can Create Jobs And Restore Our Economy And Keep Our Country Safe.

Working Together

I'm Not Surprised That Governor Dean Would Oppose [the $87 Billion To Fund Iraq Reconstruction].... I've Lost Confidence That He Has Any Understanding Of The National Security Responsibilities Of A President... [b]ecause I Don't Believe That He Has Any Understanding Of The International Role That The United States Has To Play In The World. I Think It's A Kind Of A Pseudo-isolationism That Appeals To The Base Of The Caucus Voters. I Do Not Believe That Particularly In The Case Of Iraq That Governor Dean Has Any Fundamental Understanding Of What's At Stake Here.

The French Remind Me A Little Bit Of An Aging Actress Of The 1940s Who Is Still Trying To Dine Out On Her Looks But Doesn't Have The Face For It.

Instead Of Giving The Effort The Level Of Attention Needed, The Air Force Has Wasted A Year Doing Very Little To End Our Reliance On Russian Rocket Engines, If The Air Force Is Unwilling To Do What Is Necessary To Meet The 2019 Deadline, They Are Going To Have To Figure Out How To Meet Our Space Launch Needs Without The Rd-180 (russian Engine).

Just Stop At One Of These Construction Sites And Look And See Who Those Workers Are. They're All Hispanic ... And I Bet You They're Illegal.

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The Role Of The Vice President Is To Break Ties In The Senate And Inquire Daily Into The Health Of The President.

I Was Concerned About A Couple Of Steps That The Russian Government Took In The Last Several Days. One Was Reducing The Energy Supplies To Czechoslovakia.

We Have A Lot Of Work To Do And I‘m Afraid That It‘s A Very Hard Struggle, Particularly Given The Situation On The Iraq/pakistan Border.

I Think Conventional Wisdom Is That Time Is Not On Our Side. But There Are A Number Of Members Of Congress Who Have Primaries And When Those Primaries Are Done, They May Be More Inclined To Address The Issue Of Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

There's A Certain Romanticism Associated With Exploration Of Space, Which Is One Of The Major Factors Why We'll Continue.

Improve Human Intelligence To Get Osama Bin Laden.

Osama Bin Laden

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