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If We'd Had Government On [today's] Scale In The 1840s, The Stagecoaches Would Have Hired Lobbyists To Get A Bill Passed That Railroads Could Not Travel Faster Than A Horse Because It Would Be An Unfair Competitive Advantage.

-Newt Gingrich

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If We'd Had Government On [today's] Scale In The 1840s, The Stagecoaches Would Have Hired Lobbyists To Get A Bill Passed That Railroads Could Not Travel Faster Than A Horse Because It Would Be An Unfair Competitive Advantage.

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The Secular Elites Are So Terrified Of Telling The Truth About Radical Islam. When You Talk About The Radical Islamists, We Have Got To Get Straight And Get Serious And Talk About It In The Right Way.

If A Bunch Of Republicans Are Too Stiff- Necked, Too Proud, Or In Some Cases Too Committed To The Old Order, After The Election, I Think They're Going To Be Very Sobered By Their Position.

We Need To Quit Subsidizing The Costs For Illegal Immigrants' Residency In America Immediately. How Long Will We Allow Them To Siphon Millions Upon Millions From Honest Taxpaying Americans By Supporting Their Health Care, Welfare, Education And Criminal Expenses?

Hillary Clinton Is Lying Again And Again.

Again And Again

Reintegrating The Brain Into The Rest Of The Body Is Absolutely Essential To Having The Kind Of Long-term Health And Substantially Lower Cost [of Care] Than If You're Going To Treat Them Separately.

Those Of Us Who Believe In Free Markets And Those Of Us Who Believe That In Fact The Whole Goal Of Investment Is Entrepreneurship And Job Creation, We Find It Pretty Hard To Justify Rich People Figuring Out Clever Legal Ways To Loot A Company, Leaving Behind 1,700 Families Without A Job.

Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less.

You Know, Modern Liberals Are Just, I Think Frankly, Totally Off The Deep End... Their Only Answer Is To Yell Racism And Hide.

I Will Go To The Naacp Convention, And Explain To The African-american Community Why They Should Demand Paychecks Instead Of Food Stamps.

African American

The Mother Killing Her Two Children In South Carolina Vividly Reminds Every American How Sick The Society Is Getting And How Much We Have To Have Change. I Think People Want To Change And The Only Way You Get Change Is To Vote Republican.

You Can Be Totally Committed To Conservative Principles - To Individual Liberty, A Market Economy, Entrepreneurship And Lower Taxes - And Still Be A Green Conservative. You Can Believe That With The Sound Use Of Science And Technology And The Right Incentives To Encourage Entrepreneurs, Conservatism Can Provide A Better Solution For The Health Of Our Planet Than Can Liberalism.

I Think The Very Concept Of An Elite Commission Deciding For The American People Who Deserves To Be Heard Is Profoundly Wrong.

It Is Time To Know More About Would-be Terrorists, To Profile For Terrorists And To Actively Discriminate Based On Suspicious Terrorist Information.

The Bush Administration Has Now Provided Three Case Studies In Arrogance, Isolation And Destructiveness: Michael Brown During Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Jerry Bremer In Baghdad And Secretary Paulson At Treasury. It Is A Tragic And Very Expensive Legacy. No Conservative And No Republican Should Doubt How Much It Has Hurt Our Cause And Our Party.

How Can You Have The Mess We Have In New Orleans, And Not Have Had Deep Investigations Of The Federal Government, The State Government, The City Government, And The Failure Of Citizenship In The Ninth Ward, Where 22,000 People Were So Uneducated And So Unprepared, They Literally Couldn't Get Out Of The Way Of A Hurricane.

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