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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.

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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.

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Hardened Terrorists Are Coming Here To Hit Us Hard If We Don't Hit Them First.

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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 Founders Never Intended For Americans To Trust Their Government. Our Entire Constitution Was Predicated On The Notion That Government Was A Necessary Evil, To Be Restrained And Minimized As Much As Possible.

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.

I'll Tell You What A Weakness Is Of This Country [the Usa]: There Are A Lot Of People Who Are Sick And Tired Because Washington Does Not Play By The Same Rules That The American People Have To Play By.

The Stamp Act Was A Direct Tax Imposed On The Colonies By King George Iii. This Act Inevitably Led To The American Revolution. Just As The Stamp Act Did In 1765, Obamacare Should Act As A Wake-up Call. Chief Justice Roberts Provides Us With A Similar Call To Action.

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

I Think We've Made The Collection Haystack So Big, No One's Ever Getting Through The Haystack To Find The Needle. What We Really Need To Do Is Isolate The Haystack Into A Group Of Suspicious People And Spend Enormous Resources Looking At Suspicious People, People Who We Have Probable Cause.

The Republican Party Is An Empty Vessel Unless We Imbue It With Values.

I Think That There Is A Bipartisan Consensus That's Incorrect That We Should Have The Whole World Be In Nato. For Example, If We Had Ukraine And Georgia In Nato - And This Is Something Mccain And The Other Neocons Have Advocated For - We Would Be At War Now Because Russia Has Invaded Both Of Them.

Overall Do I Believe Exchange With Other Cultures Is Good, People Going Back And Forth Is Good, Trade Is Good. Yes, All Of These Things Are Good. But I Think You Have To Make Sure The System's Working. We Need To Know, Virtually 100 Percent Of The Time, When You Come And When You Leave. It's Called Entry And Exit.

I Would Never Belong To Any Club That Excluded Anybody For Race.

Of Strong Importance To Me Is The Defense Of Minority Rights, Not Just Racial Minorities, But Ideological And Religious Minorities.

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.

Roll Back Federal Spending To 2008 Levels.

Federal Spending

I Think The Problem With John Bolton Is He Disagrees With President Trump's Foreign Policy. He Would Be Closer To John Mccain's Foreign Policy. John Bolton Still Believes The Iraq War Was A Good Idea. He Still Believes That Regime Change Is A Good Idea. He Still Believes That Nation-building Is A Good Idea.

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

Institutional Racism

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

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

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

A Tea Party Tidal Wave Is Coming.

You Can't Have It Both Ways. You Can't Tell Me That You're Taxed Enough Already, And That You Want Constitutional Government And Then In The Next Breath Say, 'bring Me Home Some Bacon.' The Pig Has Been Picked Clean.

Congress Shall Pass No Law That Exempts Themselves!

I Think It's A Real Debate How Big Nato Should Be And Whether Or Not It's More Provocative Than Good. Whenever There's A War Fought, Our Soldiers Fight It And Our Dollars Pay For It. And, Really, Our Decisions Need To Be About Our National Security.

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."

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

What I've Always Said Is That I'm Opposed To Institutional Racism, And I Would've, Had I've Been Alive At The Time, I Think, Had The Courage To March With Martin Luther King To Overturn Institutional Racism, And I See No Place In Our Society For Institutional Racism.

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.

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.

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

African American

The President Wants More Tax Money In Washington. I Want More Money Left In The Communities, Particularly Poor Communities, Particularly Communities That Have High Unemployment.

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.

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

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

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