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I Would Prefer That In The Republican Party, We Not Engage In Trying To Destroy Each Other, Because All That Does Is Hand The Election Over To The Democrats. I Don't Know Why There Is This Penchant For Snatching Defeat Out Of The Jaws Of Victory, They'll Find Some Way To Destroy Themselves. And It Is Just Maddening To See It Happening.

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I Would Prefer That In The Republican Party, We Not Engage In Trying To Destroy Each Other, Because All That Does Is Hand The Election Over To The Democrats. I Don't Know Why There Is This Penchant For Snatching Defeat Out Of The Jaws Of Victory, They'll Find Some Way To Destroy Themselves. And It Is Just Maddening To See It Happening.

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She [hillary Clinton] Is The Epitome Of The Progressive - The Secular Progressive Movement. And She Counts On The Fact That People Are Uninformed, The Alinsky Model, Taking Advantage Of Useful Idiots.

If For You The Most Important Thing Is To Make A Lot Of Money, Then You Don't Want To Take A Certain Type Of Risk. If, On Another Hand, The Most Important Thing To You Is To Make People Around You Have A More Fulfilled Life, Then There Is A Different Set Of Things That Are Important To You. Unless You Really Know That About Yourself, You Will Never Be Able To Appropriately Assess Risk.

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I Consider Myself A Logical Person And, You Know, A Lot Of People Try To Categorize Me In One Way Or Another. You Know, There Are Some Of The Things That I Say That Probably Would Be Considered Very Much Non-conservative. But I Don't Think Really Conservative Or Liberal; I Think: What Makes Sense? What's Going To Help The American People? What's Going To Give Them What They Need? Not Only In Health Care But In Terms Of Jobs, In Terms Of Education, In Terms Of A Whole Host Of Issues.

If You Go Into Hasakah Province In Northeast Syria, That's An Area That's As Big As Lebanon. It's Controlled By The Kurds, The Christians And The Moderate Sunnis. And There Are Airstrips And Hotels. You Could Settle A Lot Of People There.all We Would Have To Do Is Be Willing To Provide Them With Some Weaponry, Some Defensive Weaponry.

Just Because Somebody Happens To Disagree With You About Something Doesn't Mean That They Become Your Mortal Enemy And That You Should Try To Destroy Them And Destroy Their Life And Destroy Their Family.

Call It Whatever You Need To Call It To Make It Feel Good To You. But The Fact Of The Matter Is, I've Been In Lots Of Place Growing Up And Listening To People Tell Great Tales Of Sexual Conquest. It Is An Immature Thing To Do -

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If I Had A Little Kid In Kindergarten Somewhere, Would Feel Much More Comfortable If I Knew On That Campus There Was A Police Officer Or Somebody Who Was Trained With A Weapon. I Would Feel More Comfortable.

We Need To Be Doing Lots Of Other Things With The Resources That We Have. So Economic Power Works Just As Well As Military Power, Perhaps Even Better. And Speaking Of That, Our Military Needs To Be Upgraded.

Marriage Is Between A Man And A Woman. No Group, Be They Gays, Be They Nambla, Be They People Who Believe In Bestiality, It Doesn’t Matter What They Are - They Don’t Get To Change The Definition.

We Have The World's Best Military, Even Though He (president Barack Obama) Has Done Everything He Can To Diminish It.

Here's A Nation, One Of The Founding Pillars Was Freedom Of Speech And Freedom Of Expression. And Yet, We Have Imposed Upon People Restrictions On What They Can Say, On What They Can Think. And The Media Is The Largest Proponent Of This, Crucifying People Who Say Things Really Quite Innocently.

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I'm Referring To Anybody Who Is Trying To Interfere With The Process Of Interfering With What The Will Of The People Are. It Is The People Who Should Make The Decision. And Whoever That Decision Is, The Establishment Needs To Get Behind Them And Push Them, Not Be Going In A Different Direction, There Is No Way That Can Be A Successful Startegy No Matter What You Believe Or Who Is The Candidate.

We Have To Destroy Their Caliphate Because That Gives Them Legitimacy To Go Ahead With The Global Jihad. We Have To Take Their Energy Because They Are - Isis Is The Richest Terrorist Organization There Is.

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We Don't Need To Set This Up As We Either Take A Bunch Of Refugees Who Will Be Infiltrated With Terrorists, I Guarantee You. For Them Not To Be Would Be Terrorist Malpractice. And We Need To - To Choose The Right Choice, Not These False Choices.

But, You Know, We Have These Entrenched Entities - And I'm Talking About Both Republicans And Democrats - Who Believe That When You're Elected To Office, You Become Some Kind Of Member Of The Aristocracy, And That Anyone Who Challenges You Is Attacking You And Is Unpatriotic. This Is Foolishness.

Some People Say You're Weak Because, You Know, You're Not Loud And You're Not Boisterous And You're Not Rude. But The Fact Of The Matter Is, Look And See What I've Done. And That Speaks Volumes About Strength.

If We Can Take Young People Who Excel At The Highest Levels, Put Them On The Same Kind Of Pedestal As The All-state Basketball Player And The All-state Football Player, And Begin To Get The Same Kind Of Recognition, It Will Have A Profound Effect, And We Are Finding That It Does.

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If We Develop In-depth Knowledge, It Will Enable Us To Give Our Best To Others And Help To Make A Better World.

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You Can't Allow The Forces Of Political Correction To Shut You Up. I Mean, Why Are People Afraid To Say, 'merry Christmas?' Give Me A Break. If People Don't Like It, Yeah, They Can Go Do Something Else.

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Do Not Underestimate The Importance Of Feeling Special.

A Truly Moral Nation Enacts Policies That Encourage Personal Responsibility And Discourage Self-destructive Behavior By Not Subsidizing People Who Live Irresponsibly And Make Poor Choices.

People Are Simply Not Willing To Look At Their Problems Honestly And Admit That They Have Problems.

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A Lot Of People Simply Don't Realize Their Potential Because They're Just So Risk Adverse. They Just Don't Want To Take The Risk.

What The Muslim Brotherhood Said In The Explanatory Memorandum That Was Discovered During The Holy Land Foundation Trial Was That, "they Will Take Advantage Of Our Pc Attitude To Get Us".

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My Mother Only Had A Third Grade Education, Was Illiterate, Worked As A Domestic 2 To 3 Jobs At A Time, Because She Didn't Want To Be On Welfare, Because She Never Saw People Who Went On Welfare Come Off Of Welfare, And She Just Didn't Want To Have Her Life Controlled In That Fashion.

I Think People Actually Notice Sometimes The Content Of What One Is Saying Rather Than The Decibel Level At Which He Says It. And A Lot Of Times When People Don't Have A Lot To Say, They Increase The Volume.

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[donald Trump] Is Talked About Enormous Loss That We've Had In This Country By Allowing Radical Islamic Extremists To Run Rampant Without Having A Coherent Plan For How To Destroy Them, Not Just To Contain Them, But To Destroy Them. And The Implications Of That For All Families Who Are Losing Service Members Is Significant.

I Want The Government To Provide The Military So We Don't Get Invaded By Somebody And Destroyed. I Want The Government To Provide The Roads So I Can Get From Point A To B. In Terms Of Taking Care Of My Day To Day Needs, I Want To Do That Myself. I Want My Community To Do That.

No One Is Ever Better Off With Dictators But There Comes A Time You Know, When You're On An Airplane, They Always Say, "in Case Of An Emergency Oxygen Masks Will Drop Down. Put Yours On First And Then Administer Help To Your Neighbor." We Need Oxygen Right Now.

There Comes A Time When People With Values Simply Have To Stand Up. Think About Nazi, Germany. Most Of Those People Did Not Believe In What Hitler Was Doing.

I Don't Think Really Conservative Or Liberal; I Think What Makes Sense.

I Hope We, The American People, Can Come To The Understanding That We Are Not Each Other's Enemies. The Enemies Are Those Who Are Stoking The Flames Of Division, Trying To Divide Us Into Every Category.

We Should Use Our Economic Power In Lots Of Different Ways. I Think We Can Use That In Order To Keep [vladimir] Putin Contained, Because He Is A One-horse Show. Energy. And We Have An Abundance Of Energy, But We Have Archaic Energy Exportation Rules. We Need To Get Rid Of Those, Allow Ourselves To Really Make Europe Dependent On Us And Other Parts Of The World Dependent On Us For Energy. Put Him Back In His Little Box Where He Belongs.

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It's Not What You Do But That Kind Of Job You Do That Makes The Difference.

Knowledge Is The Key That Unlocks All The Doors. You Can Be Green-skinned With Yellow Polka Dots And Come From Mars, But If You Have Knowledge That People Need, Instead Of Beating You, They'll Beat A Path To Your Door.

The Doors Of The World Are Opened To People Who Can Read.

I Have No Problem Whatsoever With Allowing Gay People To Live As They Please, As Long As They Don't Try To Impose Their Lifestyle On Everyone Else.

A Lot Of People Who Go Into Prison Go Into Prison Straight - And When They Come Out, They're Gay.

We Seem To Be Afraid To Give The Kurds Weaponry. We Like To Send It For Some Strange Reason Through Baghdad, And Then They Only Get A Tenth Of It.

Quite Frankly, Having An Uninformed Populace Works Extremely Well, Particularly When You Have A Media That Doesn't Understand Its Responsibility And Feels More Like It's An Arm Of A Political Party. They Can Really Take Advantage Of An Uninformed Populace.

We Should Be Concerned Not Only About The Health Of Individual Patients, But Also The Health Of Our Entire Society.

So We [americans] Have A History A Taking Care Of Each Other. Now, For Some Strange Reason Starting Sort Of In The 20's With Woodrow Wilson, The Government Started Getting Involved In Everything.

As Far As The Command Centers Are Concerned In Raqqa And To A Lesser Degree Mosul, Cut Those Off. Do The Same Kind Of Thing That We Did With Sinjar , Working With Our Embedded Special Forces With The Kurds, Shut Off The Supply Route, Soften Them Up, Then We Go In With Specials Ops Followed By Our Air Force To Take Them Over. Those Are Things That Work.

Health Care Is One-sixth Of Our Economy. If The Government Can Control That, They Can Control Just About Everything. We Need To Understand What Is Going On, Because There Are Much More Economic Models That Can Be Used To Give Us Good Health Care Than What We Have Now.

Economic Models

Don't Let Anyone Turn You Into A Slave. You're A Slave If You Let The Media Tell You That Sports And Entertainment Are More Important Than Developing Your Brain.

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There's A False Narrative That Only The Political Class Has The Wisdom And The Ability To Be Commander-in- Chief. But If You Go Back And You Study The Design Of Our Country, It Was Really Designed For The Citizen Statesman.

I Started Reading About People Of Great Accomplishment … And It Dawned On Me Suddenly That The Person Who Has The Most To Do With What Happens In Your Life Is You.

There Are A Group Of People Who Would Like To Silence Everybody And Have Everyone Go Along To Get Along, But That’s Not Going To Be Very Helpful For Us In The Long Run In Terms Of Solving Our Problems, And Someone Has To Be Courageous Enough To Actually Stand Up To The Bullies.

Right Now, The United States Of America Is The Patient. And The Patient Is In Critical Condition And Will Not Be Cured By Political Correctness And Will Not Be Cured By Timidity.

Maybe That's How I Learned To Handle My Deep Hurt - By Forgetting.

It Was Very Interesting Having An Opportunity To Talk To The Syrians Themselves. And I Asked Them: What Do You Want? What Is Your Supreme Desire? Their Supreme Desire Was To Be Settled Back In Their Own Country. I Said, "what Can Americans And Other Countries Do?" They Said, "support The Efforts Of Those Who Are Trying To Provide Safety For Us, Including The Jordanians."

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If We Don't Get The Military Right Nothing Else Matters.

I Don't Believe That Expressing Your Opinion, Regardless Of Who Is There, Is Being Rude. And It's A Shame That We've Reached A Level In Our Country Where We Think That You Don't Have The Right To Put Your Opinion Out There.

If We Allow Ourselves To Dwell On Negatives, On Hurts, On Mistreatments, We Will Be Negative Thinkers. So Be Open To Positive Thinking, Think Big!

Positive Thinking

If You Go And Talk To Most People, They Mean Well But They Don't Have Much Of A Breadth On Education, Of Knowledge Of Understanding What The Real Issues Are And Therefore They Listen To Pundits On Television Who Tell Them What They Are Supposed To Think And They Keep Repeating That Until Pretty Soon They Say, 'oh, Well That Must Be True.'

Anyone Who Can't Learn From Other People's Mistakes Simply Can't Learn, And That;s All There Is To It. There Is Value In The Wrong Way Of Doing Things. The Knowledge Gained From Errors Contributes To Our Knowledge Base.

We Have Much Better Policies Than The Democrats Do.

I Was Asked By An Npr Reporter Once, Why Don't I Talk About Race That Often. I Said It's Because I'm A Neurosurgeon. And She Thought That Was A Strange Response. And You Say - I Said, You See, When I Take Someone To The Operating Room, I'm Actually Operating On The Thing That Makes Them Who They Are. The Skin Doesn't Make Them Who They Are.

I Would Prefer To Just Continue To Speak About Truth And To Speak About What Makes Sense.

What If Someone Hit Us With An Emp, Cyber-attack, And Dirty Bomb All At Once? That Would Be Pretty Bad.

And I've Always Said, 'if Two People Think The Same Thing About Everything, One Of Them Isn't Necessary.' We Need To Be Able To Understand That If We're Going To Make Real Progress.

Even If You're Bill Gates, You've Got Problems. I'm Sure He Would Probably Easily Give A Few Billion Dollars To Get Rid Of All The Problems That He Has.

I Serve God, And My Purpose Is To Please Him, And If God Be For You, Who Can Be Against You?

Illogical Thinkers Throw Names And Slurs Around Because They Have No Arguments With Which To Rebut Their Opponents. Rational People Have To Keep Hammering Their Points Home.

Let`s Teach Those People That When They Go To Work, They Get Skills, They Meet People, They Get Opportunities, They Get To Climb The Ladder, They Get Much Better Off Than The Person Who`s Just Sitting At Home Receiving Those Things.

Nobody Can Hinder You From Doing What You Want, If That's What You Set Your Mind To. You Can Always Find A Hook To Hang Excuses On, But They're Only Excuses. You Don't Have Anyone To Blame But Yourself. Nobody Else Makes You Fail.

Doing What You Want

The Reason That I Proposed Health Savings Accounts For Everybody Starting At Birth, Is Because You Very Quickly Accumulate An Amount Of Money That You Can Use For Your Interactions With Those Health Care Providers.

The Roman Empire Was Very, Very Much Like Us. They Lost Their Moral Core, Their Sense Of Values In Terms Of Who They Were. And After All Of Those Things Converged Together, They Just Went Right Down The Tubes Very Quickly.

People All Over The Nation Are Starved For Honesty And Common Sense.

We Turned Our Back On Israel, Our Ally. You Know, And A Situation Like That, Of Course [barack]obama's Not Going To Be Able To Do Anything. I Would Shore Up Our Military First, Because If You Don't Get The Military Right, Nothing Else Is Going To Work.

Let's Say Somebody Were [in The White House] And They Wanted To Destroy This Nation. I Would Create Division Among The People, Encourage A Culture Of Ridicule For Basic Morality And The Principles That Made And Sustained The Country, Undermine The Financial Stability Of The Nation, And Weaken And Destroy The Military. It Appears Coincidentally That Those Are The Very Things That Are Happening Right Now.

So After A While, If People Won't Accept Your Excuses, You Stop Looking For Them.

You Know, When You Go Into The Store And Buy A Box Of Laundry Detergent, And The Price Has Gone Up - You Know, 50 Cents Because Of Regulations....and Everything Is Costing More Money, And We Are Killing Our People Like This....it's The Evil Government That Is Putting All These Regulations On Us So That We Can't Survive.

It's Ridiculous That Our Solar System, Not To Mention The Universe Outside Of That, Is Extraordinarily Well Organized, To The Point Where We Can Predict 70 Years Away When A Comet Is Coming.

We Need To Understand That We Are Not Each Others' Enemies In This Country. And It Is Only The Political Class That Derives Its Power By Creating Friction. It Is Only The Media That Derives Its Importance By Creating Friction... That Uses Every Little Thing To Create This Chasm Between People. This Is Not Who We Are.

When I Entered High School I Was An A-student, But Not For Long. I Wanted The Fancy Clothes. I Wanted To Hang Out With The Guys. I Went From Being An A-student To A B-student To A C-student, But I Didn't Care. I Was Getting The High Fives And The Low Fives And The Pats On The Back. I Was Cool.

If We Make Every Attempt To Increase Out Knowledge In Order To Use It For Human Good, It Will Make A Difference In Us And In Our World.

A Culture Exists Within The [ted] Cruz Camp That Would Allow People To Take Advantage Of A Situation Like This In A Very Dishonest Way.

I Consider Myself A Logical Person And, You Know, A Lot Of People Try To Categorize Me In One Way Or Another.

We Have A War On Women, Race Wars. Income Wars, Age Wars, Religious Wars, Anything You Can Imagine. A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand It. And It's Going To Be Up To Us, To People, To Begin The Focus On The Positive Things, On The Things That We Have In Common And Stop Listening To Those Who Are Stoking The Fires Of Division.

It Is Absolutely Vital That We Do All We Can To Allow Americans To Practice Their Religious Ways, While Simultaneously Ensuring That No One's Beliefs Infringe Upon Those Of Others. We Should Also Serve As Champions Of Freedom Of Religion Throughout The World.

By Thinking Big, We Can Transform Our World.

We Are Not Like Dogs Who Are Kind Of "what Am I Going To Eat Today? Oh, There Is A Rabbit; I Am Going To Go Chase It."

I Wouldn't Go To War Over Ukraine.

If We Set Our Priority "the Removal Of All Risk", We'll Soon Have Sterile, Stagnant, And Unstimulating Learning Environments.

If You Don't Accept Excuses, Then People Will Stop Giving Them And Will Start Looking For Solutions.

Say Your Prayers. And I'll Say Mine. Because I Really Think It Helps.

The Truth Is, The Liberal Policies Of The Elite Class Have Done Little To Improve The Lot Of Those Who Depend So Much On Them. In America's Black Communities, Where The Goodies Have Been Flowing For Decades, Rather Than Seeing Improvements In Terms Of Upward Mobility, We Are Seeing Deteriorating Family Structure, Increases In Violent Crimes, Growing Poverty, And Growing Dependence. Even With Such A Blatant Record Of Failure, There Is Slavish Devotion To The Elite Class Who Continue To Promise More Goodies In Exchange For Votes.

I Never Had Money For Anything. But I Tell You What Did Really Work - Books. Between The Covers Of Those Books I Could Go Anyplace, I Could Be Anybody, I Could Do Anything.

Reading Activates And Exercises The Mind. Reading Forces The Mind To Discriminate. From The Beginning, Readers Have To Recognize Letters Printed On The Page, Make Them Into Words, The Words Into Sentences, And The Sentences Into Concepts. Reading Pushes Us To Use Our Imagination And Makes Us More Creatively Inclined.

I Have No Problem With Being Vetted. What I Do Have A Problem With Is Being Lied About And Then Putting That As Truth.

I Would Support Whoever The People Have Chosen. We Have To Abandon The Thinking That There Is A Bunch Of Politically Elite People Who Know What Is Best, Let The People Determine For Themselves Who Is Best.

We Have To Take Isis Oil, Shut Down All Of The Mechanisms Whereby They Can Disperse Money Because They Go After Disaffected Individuals From All Over The Place, And They're Able To Pay Them.

There Is No Job More Important Than Parenting. This I Believe.

We Get Out Of Life What We Put Into It. The Way We Treat Others Is The Way We Ourselves Get Treated.

I Am Convinced That Knowledge Is Power - To Overcome The Past, To Change Our Own Situations, To Fight New Obstacles, To Make Better Decisions.

Knowledge And Power

Compassion, However, Should Mean Providing A Mechanism To Escape Poverty Rather Than Simply Maintaining People In An Impoverished State By Supplying Handouts. By Doing This We Give Them An Opportunity To Elevate Their Personal Situations, Which Eventually Decreases Our Need To Take Care Of Them And Empowers Them To Be Able To Exercise Compassion Toward Others.

Our Friends Can't Trust Us Anymore. You Know, Ukraine Was A Nuclear-armed State. They Gave Away Their Nuclear Arms With The Understanding That We Would Protect Them. We Won't Even Give Them Offensive Weapons.

I Grew Up In Detroit. I Grew Up In An Environment Where You Were Supposed To Be Democrat, Where They Told You That Republicans Were Evil People And That They Were Racist.

Politics Is Corrupting The American Judicial System In Much The Same Way The Judicial System Was Corrupted In Nazi Germany.

I Think What's Happening With The Veterans Is A Gift From God To Show Us What Happens When You Take Layers And Layers Of Bureaucracy And Place Them Between The Patients And The Health Care Provider. And If We Can't Get It Right, With The Relatively Small Number Of Veterans, How In The World Are You Going To Do It With The Entire Population?

Ruthless Is Not Necessarily The Word I Would Use, But Tough, Resolute, Understanding What The Problems Are, And Understanding That The Job Of The President Of The United States Is To Protect The People Of This Country And To Do What Is Necessary In Order To Get It Done.

If Someone Has A Muslim Background And They're Willing To Reject Those Tenets And To Accept The Way Of Life That We Have And Clearly Will Swear To Place Our [american] Constitution Above Their Religion, Then, Of Course, They Will Be Considered Infidels And Heretics, But At Least I Would Then Be Quite Willing To Support Them.

I Don't Do A Lot Of Talking. I Do A Lot Of Doing. And Really, It Says More About A Person Than How Much They Talk.

People Spending More Of Their Own Money On Routine Health Care Would Make The System More Competitive And Transparent And Restore The Confidence Between The Patients And The Doctors Without Government Rationing.

Every Person Is Endowed With God-given Abilities, And We Must Cultivate Every Ounce Of Talent We Have In Order To Maintain Our Pinnacle Position In The World.

There's No Question That As Science, Knowledge And Technology Advance, That We Will Attempt To Do More Significant Things. And There's No Question That We Will Always Have To Temper Those Things With Ethics.

Significant Things

There's No Such Thing As Useless Knowledge. You Never Know What Doors It's Going To Open Up For You.

Useless Knowledge

No Matter How Good You Are At Planning, The Pressure Never Goes Away. So I Don't Fight It. I Feed Off It. I Turn Pressure Into Motivation To Do My Best.

You Don't Have To Be A Brain Surgeon To Be A Valuable Person. You Become Valuable Because Of The Knowledge That You Have. And That Doesn't Mean You Won't Fail Sometimes. The Important Thing Is To Keep Trying.

When I Look At The Human Brain I'm Still In Awe Of It. Every Single Time You Lift Off The Bone And Open The Durra And There It Is - The Human Brain, The Thing That Gives A Person A Personality, That Distinguishes Each One Of Us, That There Could Be More Than 6 Billion Of Us Here On This Planet With Brains That Look The Same, But Each One Being Distinctly Different Because Of What Is Going On In That Thing. I'll Never Get Over My Awe Of That.

I Think It's A Fallacy That Only People In Elected Office Can Come Up With Solutions That Solve Our Problems. I Just Think Maybe There's A Different Paradigm.

In Order To Have Good Health Care You Need A Patient And You Need A Health Care Provider.

As I Was Growing Up, People Were Always Trying To Talk About Their Sexual Conquests, Trying To Make Themselves Appear Like A Cassanova. I'm Surprised You Haven't Heard That, I Really Am.

You Pray For Yourself And Just Ask God To Give You Strength.

Praying For You

You Are What You Think.

If You're A Christian And You're Running For President And You Want To Make This Into A Theocracy, I'm Not Going To Support You.

Always Give Your Best And Try To Figure Out How To Do An Even Better Job.

You Need An Incredible Amount Of Self-confidence To Go Digging Around In Someone's Brain.

Self Confidence

I Am Asking The Congress, Which Represents The People, To Declare A War On Isis So That We Can Begin The Process Of Excising That Cancer And Begin The Healing Process, And Bring Peace, Prosperity, And Safety Back To America.

I Feel Very Blessed To Have Been Involved With Some Of The Most Complex Surgical Procedures In The History Of The World.

My Experience Has Confirmed The Wisdom Of So Much Of What The Bible Teaches.

Surrendering To Fear And Allowing Ourselves To Be Paralyzed By Peril Isn't Something Most Of Us Can Afford To Do.

There's Absolutely No Reason At All That Physicians, Scientists, Shouldn't Be Involved In Things That Affect All Of Us.

Before God,no God,after Him,there Will Be No God.

I've Had Experiences In My Life That Leave No Doubt In My Mind About The Fact That God Exists. I'm Quite Willing To Debate People Who Don't Think So Because I Want Them To Explain To Me How Did Our Solar System Get So Organized And How Is The Universe So Complex And Yet Well-organized That We Can Predict 70 Years Hence When A Comet Is Coming?

If You Hear How Wonderful You Are Often Enough, You Begin To Believe It, No Matter How You Try To Resist It.

If We Can Redefine Marriage As Between Two Men Or Two Women Or Any Other Way Based On Social Pressures As Opposed To Between A Man And A Woman, We Will Continue To Redefine It In Any Way That We Wish, Which Is A Slippery Slope With A Disastrous Ending, As Witnessed In The Dramatic Fall Of The Roman Empire.

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