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I Would Cap The Amount Of Federal Government Can Spend At 20 Percent Of The Economy. Bring It Back To 20 Percent Or Lower. And Say, We Are Not Going To Spend Above That Level. Democrats, They Want To Raise Your Taxes And Spend More And More And Turn Us Into An Economy Which Is No Longer Driven By The Private Sector.

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I Would Cap The Amount Of Federal Government Can Spend At 20 Percent Of The Economy. Bring It Back To 20 Percent Or Lower. And Say, We Are Not Going To Spend Above That Level. Democrats, They Want To Raise Your Taxes And Spend More And More And Turn Us Into An Economy Which Is No Longer Driven By The Private Sector.

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I Was An Avidly Pro-life Governor; I'm An Avidly Pro-life Individual. As A Pro-life Republican, I Am In Favor Of Having The Supreme Court Overturn Roe V. Wade.

We Are A Nation Of Immigrants. We Are The Children And Grandchildren And Great-grandchildren Of The Ones Who Wanted A Better Life, The Driven Ones, The Ones Who Woke Up At Night Hearing That Voice Telling Them That Life In That Place Called America Could Be Better.

I Disagree With The Supreme Court's Decision And I Agree With The Dissent. What The Court Did Not Do On Its Last Day In Session, I Will Do On My First Day If Elected President Of The United States, And That Is I Will Act To Repeal Obamacare.

We Can't Expect Entrepreneurs And Businesses Large And Small To Take Their Life Savings Or Their Company's Money And Invest In America If They Think We're Headed To The Road To Greece. And That's Where We're Going Right Now Unless We Finally Get Off This Spending And Borrowing Binge. And I'll Get Us On Track To A Balanced Budget.

This Feels Good Being Back In Michigan. You Know, The Trees Are The Right Height.

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The Largest Portion Of Our State Budget Is Health And Human Services. It Will Grow By Approximately $500 Million. A Half A Billion Dollars Is A Very Big Number.

I Believe That Since Roe V. Wade Has Been The Law For 20 Years We Should Sustain And Support It.

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Ending Illegal Immigration Only Strengthens Legal Immigration.

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It Was Absolutely Critical To Renew The Bush Tax Cuts. Letting Them Expire Would Result In A Massive Tax Increase That Would Retard Economic Growth.

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I Think The Best Answer Is As Little As Possible.

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You Look At That Democratic Debate. I Had To Laugh At What I Saw Barack Obama Do. I Mean, In One Week, He Went From Saying He Is Going To Sit Down For Tea With Our Enemies, But Then He's Going To Bomb Our Allies. I Mean, He's Gone From Jane Fonda To Dr. Strangelove In One Week.

Our Worldly Successes Cannot Be Guaranteed, But Our Ability To Achieve Spiritual Success Is Entirely Up To Us, Thanks To The Grace Of God. The Best Advice I Know Is To Give Is To Give Those Worldly Things Your Best But Never Your All - Reserve The Ultimate Hope For The Only One Who Can Grant It.

Donald Trump Creates Scapegoats In Muslims And Mexican Immigrants. He Calls For The Use Of Torture. He Calls For Killing The Innocent Children And Family Members Of Terrorists. He Cheers Assaults On Protesters. He Applauds The Prospect Of Twisting The Constitution To Limit First Amendment Freedom Of The Press. This Is The Very Brand Of Anger That Has Led Other Nations Into The Abyss.

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Moral Certainty, Clear Standards, And A Commitment To Spiritual Ideals Will Set You Apart In A World That Searches For Meaning.

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I Wish President Obama Had Succeeded Because I Want America To Succeed. But His Promises Gave Way To Disappointment And Division. This Isn't Something We Have To Accept. Now Is The Moment When We Can Do Something. With Your Help We Will Do Something.

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I Like Silly Stuff, Too. I Like The 'twilight' Series. That Was Fun.

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America Has Not Dictated To Other Nations. We Have Freed Other Nations From Dictators.

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President Obama

When My Mom Ran For The Senate, My Dad Was There For Her Every Step Of The Way. I Can Still Hear Her Saying In Her Beautiful Voice, 'why Should Women Have Any Less Say Than Men, About The Great Decisions Facing Our Nation?'

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What Outsourcing Causes - What It's Caused By, Rather. I Understand, For Instance, How To Read A Balance Sheet. I Happen To Believe That Having Been In The Private Sector For Twenty-five Years Gives Me A Perspective On How Jobs Are Created - That Someone Who's Never Spent A Day In The Private Sector, Like President Obama, Simply Doesn't Understand.

Actually, I Didn't Say That.

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My View Is That We Have The Second Amendment Rights To Bear Arms, And In This Country My View Is That We Should Not Add New Legistlation. I Do Not Believe In New Laws Restricting Gun Ownership And Gun Use.

I Don't Mind That People Have Questions And Would Look For Someone To Respond To Their Questions, Particularly If Their Faith Is Not Terribly Well-known.

That Said, Your Values Will Not Always Be The Object Of Public Admiration. In Fact, The More You Live By Your Beliefs, The More You Will Endure The Censure Of The World.

Deadly Assault Weapons Have No Place In Massachusetts.

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I Pray. Prayer Is A Time To Connect With The Divine, But Also Time, I'm Sure, To Concentrate One's Thoughts, To Meditate, And To Imagine What Might Be.

I Was Too Important To Go To Vietnam.

I Believe The Family Is The Foundation Of America - And That We Must Fight To Protect And Strengthen It. I Believe In The Sanctity Of Human Life. I Believe That People And Their Elected Representatives Should Make Our Laws, Not Unelected Judges.

You Can't Have 23 Million People Struggling To Get A Job. You Can't Have An Economy That Over The Last Three Years Keeps Slowing Down Its Growth Rate. You Can't Have Kids Coming Out Of College, Half Of Them Can't Find A Job Today, Or A Job That's Commensurate With Their College Degree. We Have To Get Our Economy Going.

Yeah, Handsome, Great Big Guy, Seven Feet Tall! Name Is Rick Miller - Portland, Oregon. And He Started A Business. Of Course You Know It Was In Basketball. But It Wasn't In Basketball! I Mean, I Figured He Had To Be In Sport, But He Wasn't In Sport.

You Know, Circumstances Can Change, But I'm Just Not Going To Let My Head Go There.

If Anyone Accuses Me Of Lying, I'll Simply Say I'm Not Lying, Which Is Just An Extension Of The Overall Lying Strategy.

I Like American Cars. And I Would Do Nothing To Hurt The U.s. Auto Industry.

I'd Like To Be The Next President Of The United States To Support And Help This Great Nation And To Make Sure That We All Together Remain America As The Hope Of The Earth.

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And I Hear From Time To Time People Say, Hey, Wait A Second, We Have Civil Liberties We Have To Worry About. But Don't Forget The Most Important Civil Liberty I Expect From My Government Is My Right To Be Kept Alive, And That's What We're Going To Have To Do.

Supreme Court Had Said Feds Should Stay Out Of Abortion.

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People Hear From Donald Trump That He's Such An Extraordinary Success. They Didn't Know About Trump Airlines And Trump Mortgages And Trump Vitamin Network And Trump Steaks And Trump Taj Mahal. They Didn't Realize A Lot Of Small People Have Been Crushed By Donald Trump's Rise To Become A Very Wealthy Man, Successful Financially, But This Is A Guy Who Has Not Been A Uniform Success.

[on L. Ron Hubbard] I'm Not In Favor Of His Religion By Any Means. But He Wrote A Book Called 'battlefield Earth' That Was A Very Fun Science-fiction Book.

The 'blind Trust' Is An Age-old Ruse. You Give A Blind Trust Rules. You Can Say To A Blind Trust, Don't Invest In Properties Which Would Be In Conflict Of Interest Or Where The Seller Might Think They're Going To Take Advantage From Me.

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.

Everything Corporations Earn Ultimately Goes To People.

When We Have Had In The Past Programs That Have Said That The People Who Come Here Illegally Are Going To Get To Stay Illegally For The Rest Of Their Life, That's Going To Only Encourage More People To Come Here Illegally.

I Respect The Right Of Israel To Defend Itself, And - And We Stand With - With Israel. We're A - A Nation - Two Nations That Come Together In - In Peace And That Want To See Iran Being Dissuaded From Its Nuclear Folly.

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

America Needs A President Who Can Fix The Economy Because He Understands The Economy, And I Do And I Will.

What You Believe, What You Value, How You Live - Matters.

I Saw My Father March With Martin Luther King.

People Of Different Faiths, Like Yours And Mine, Sometimes Wonder Where We Can Meet In Common Purpose, When There Are So Many Differences In Creed And Theology. Surely The Answer Is That We Can Meet In Service.

Small Business Is Where Jobs Come From. Two-thirds Of Our Jobs Come From Small Businesses.

We Have Made Progress From Where We Were When President Obama Took Office, When The Economy - Our Economy Had Just Contracted Almost By Nine Percent.

Hugo Chavez Has Tried To Steal An Inspiring Phrase - 'patria O Muerte, Venceremos.' It Does Not Belong To Him. It Belongs To A Free Cuba.

Dependency Is Death To Initiative, To Risk-taking And Opportunity.

We Have Weakened Our Economy In America. We Need A Strong Economy.

The Founders Proscribed The Establishment Of A State Religion, But They Did Not Countenance The Elimination Of Religion From The Public Square. We Are A Nation 'under God' And In God, We Do Indeed Trust.

Pakistan Is A Nation, Which, If It Falls Apart, If It Becomes A Failed State, There Are Nuclear Weapons There And You've Got Terrorists There Who Could Grab Their Hands Onto Those Nuclear Weapons.

I Absolutely Believe That Those Who Come Here Illegally Should Not Be Given Favoritism Or A Special Route To Becoming Permanent Residents Or Citizens That's Not Given To Those People Who Have Stayed In Line Legally. I Just Think We Have To Follow The Law, I Think That's The Right Course.

I Think There Is Need For Economic Stimulus... And Government Can Help Make That Up In A Very Difficult Time.

I Don't See How A Young American Can Vote For, Well, Can Vote For A Democrat.

I Would Explain To My Children Very Simply That The Defense Of Liberty Is A Cause That Exacts A Very High Price In The History Of Humankind.

A Pakistan That Falls Apart, Becomes A Failed State, Would Be Of Extraordinary Danger To Afghanistan And To America.

We're Not Going To Let Our Campaign Be Dictated By Fact Checkers.

We Need To Make Sure And That We Can Continue To Move Forward In Creating Jobs And Getting The Economy Turned Around. The Best Way To Do That Is To Make Sure That We Can Get Congress To Adopt The American Jobs Act.

There Are A Number Of Things That Sound Good, But Frankly, We Just Can't Afford Them. And Obamacare Doesn't Sound Good And It's Not Affordable.

I Want To Help Small Businesses Grow And Thrive. I Know How To Make That Happen. I Spent My Life In The Private Sector. I Know Why Jobs Come And Why They Go.

My Dad Had Been Born In Mexico And His Family Had To Leave During The Mexican Revolution.

It's Fashionable In Some Circles To Be Pessimistic About America, About Conservative Solutions, About The Republican Party. I Utterly Reject That Pessimism.

Central To America's Rise To Global Leadership Is Our Judeo-christian Tradition With The Vision Of The Goodness And Possibilities Of Every Human Life.

And Let Me Make This Very Clear - Unlike President Obama, I Will Not Raise Taxes On The Middle Class. As President, I Will Protect The Sanctity Of Life. I Will Honor The Institution Of Marriage. And I Will Guarantee America's First Liberty: The Freedom Of Religion.

Christianity Is Not The Faith Of The Complacent, The Comfortable Or Of The Timid. It Demands And Creates Heroic Souls.

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