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If You Think You Have The Right To Health Care, You Are Saying Basically That I Am Your Slave. I Provide Health Care... My Staff And Technicians Provide It... If You Have A Right To Health Care, Then You Have A Right To Their Labor.

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We Should Be Proud That So Many Want To Come To America, That It Is Still Seen As The Land Of Opportunity. Let's Make It A Land Of Legal Work, Not Black-market Jobs. Let's Make It A Land Of Work, Not Welfare. Our Land Should Be One Of Assimilation, Not Hiding In The Shadows.

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I Don't Think I've Ever Used The Word 'gay Rights,' Because I Don't Really Believe In Rights Based On Your Behavior.

[john] Bolton Is So Far Out There, He`s Advocating Bombing Everyone In The World.

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I Can Tell You Who's Planning Terroris Attacks. The Leaders Of Isil. And I Can Tell You Where They're At. They're In Raqqa, Syria. So For God's Sakes, Mr. President Barack Obama , Change Your Strategy. Come Up With A Ground Force To Go In And Destroy The Caliphate Before We Get Hit Here At Home. That Would Be My Advice To You.

I Believe We Should Work To End All Racism In American Society And Staunchly Defend The Inherent Rights Of Every Person.

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Well, There’s 10 - There’s 10 Different - There’s 10 Different Titles, You Know, To The Civil Rights Act, And Nine Out Of 10 Deal With Public Institutions. And I’m Absolutely In Favor Of One Deals With Private Institutions, And Had I Been Around, I Would Have Tried To Modify That.

I Have A Question, A Question For The President: Do You Hate All Rich People, Or Just Rich People Who Don't Contribute To Your Campaign? Do You Hate Poor People Or Do You Just Hate Poor People With Jobs?

I'm Being Unfairly Targeted By A Bunch Of Hacks And Haters.

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The People Who Get The Ability To Use Force Have To Be Watched Carefully By Civilians To Make Sure They Don't Use It Excessively.

The State Doesn’t Own Your Children. Parents Own The Children.

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I Think Republicans Will Not Win Again In My Lifetime ... Unless They Become A New Gop, A New Republican Party. And It Has To Be A Transformation. Not A Little Tweaking At The Edges.

After Ensuring Border Security, I Then Would Normalize The Status Of 11 Million Undocumented Citizens So They Can Join The Work Force And Pay Taxes...i Would Normalize Them At A Rate Of About Two Million Per Year.

As Long As I Sit At Henry Clay's Desk, I Will Remember His Lifelong Desire To Forge Agreement, But I Will Also Keep Close To My Heart The Principled Stand Of His Cousin, Cassius Clay, Who Refused To Forsake The Life Of Any Human, Simply To Find Agreement.

Do You Hate Poor People Or Do You Just Hate Poor People With Jobs?

We Have 11 Million People Said To Be In Our Country Illegally. Forty Percent Of Them Are Said To Have Overstayed Their Visa. Do We Know Where They Are?

If Someone Has Ebola At A Cocktail Party They're Contagious And You Can Catch It From Them.

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.

People Don't Like To Vote Against Something That's So Incredibly Popular.

I Would Argue That The Objective Evidence Shows That Big Government Is Not A Friend To African Americans.

African American

You Don't Go Into Politics Unless You Want To Win.

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.

Perhaps It Is Time To Be More Careful What We Ask Government To Do, And Where We Allow It To Become Part Of Our Lives.

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I Think Ultimately That The Rules That You Make For Gun Control, People Who Are Intent On Killing Themselves Aren't Too Concerned With The Rules. Law-abiding Citizens Are.

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The Source Of The Problem Is In Syria. Raqqa Is The Headquarters Of Isil, Which Is A Lethal Terrorist Organization, Now Army. If You Don't Go After Them Over There, They're Going To Hit Us Over Here, And There's No Substitute For That In My View.

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Roll Back Federal Spending To 2008 Levels.

Federal Spending

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You Know, When Republicans Were In Charge, We Doubled The Debt. But, Now, Our Concern Is The Democrats Are In Charge And They're Tripling The Debt. So, Really, Our Concern Is That We Want Smaller Government.

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The End Of The Day

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Are You So Afraid That You Are Willing To Trade Your Freedom For Security?

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I Have A Message From The Tea Party, A Message That Is Loud And Clear And Does Not Mince Words. We've Come To Take Our Government Back.

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Any Time Someone Tries To Tell You That Metadata Is 'meaningless, Don't Worry, It's Just Who You Call, It's Just Phone Records, It's Not A Big Deal' - Realize We Kill People Based On Metadata. So They Must Be Pretty Darn Certain That They Think They Know Something Based On Metadata.

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The Republican Promise Is For Policies That Create Economic Growth. Republicans Believe Lower Taxes, Less Regulation, Balanced Budgets, A Solvent Social Security And Medicare Will Stimulate Economic Growth.

The Vast Majority Of My Time Is Traveling And Talking About The Issues. It Isn't Really Calling And Asking For Money.

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My First Choice Had Always Been My Father. He's Still My First Pick. Now That The Nominating Process Is Over, Tonight, I'm Happy To Announce That I'm Going To Be Supporting Governor Romney.

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Let's Means-test Benefits - Let's Means-test Social Security And Medicare And Make The Rich Pay More For These Benefits.

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Toppling Secular Dictators In The Middle East Has Only Led To Chaos And The Rise Of Radical Islam.

Every Chance At Destabilizing [bashar] Assad... The Bombing Campaign Causes A Flood Of Refugees Into Jordan, There's Already Half A Million In Jordan. I Think A Bombing Campaign - I Think It's Hard To Argue That A U.s. Bombing Campaign Is Going To Cause Less Refugees. And I Think It Causes More Refugees And More Of A Humanitarian Disaster. I Think It Causes, Or Allows, The Risk Of Israel Being Attacked With A Gas Attack To Go Up, If We Attack Assad. So There's All Kinds Of Bad Things.

I Don't Think I'm Really Open To Having Washington Change Me.

I Don't Think Edward Snowden Deserves A Death Penalty Or Life In Prison. I Think That's Inappropriate. I Think That's Why He Fled, [because] That Is What He Faced.

How Much Liberty Do With Want To Give Up For A False Sense Of Security?

I Also Think Regime Change In Syria Is A Bad Idea. And That's An Ongoing Question. It's One Of The Things I Like About Donald Trump, One Of The Reasons I Endorsed Him Is He Thinks Regime Change Is A Mistake. But John Bolton Thinks Completely The Opposite. They Are Diametric Opposites.

To Understand How Republicans Lost The African American Vote, We Must First Understand How We Won The African American Vote.

African American

Foreign Aid Goes From Poor People In Rich Countries To Rich People In Poor Countries.

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.

And When The Time Is Right, I Hope That African Americans Will Again Look To The Party Of Emancipation, Civil Liberty, And Individual Freedom.

African American

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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.

So If We Announce We're Going To Have A No-fly Zone, And Others Have Said This. Hillary Clinton Is Also For It. It Is A Recipe For Disaster. It's A Recipe For World War Iii. We Need To Confront Russia From A Position Of Strength, But We Don't Need To Confront Russia From A Point Of Recklessness That Would Lead To War.

I Think It's A Huge Mistake. I Think Regime Change In Syria, And This Is What - I've Been Saying This For Several Years Now. In 2013 When We First Went In, I Said, You Are Going To Give Arms To The Allies Of Al Qaida, To Radical Jihadists? That's Crazy.

What Gets Lost Is That The Republican Party Has Always Been The Party Of Civil Rights And Voting Rights.

My Goal Right Now Is To Actually Help Donald Trump. He's The Republican President. He's Doing A Lot Of Things That Conservatives Are For. I'm For. And So My Goal Is To Help Kentucky By Repealing Regulations That Are Killing Our Coal Industry. And I Think On That, We're Very Much Aligned.

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You Can Be Strong Without Being Involved In Every Single Civil War Around The World.

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John Mccain's Complaint Is We're Either Not At War Somewhere, Or If We're At War, We Leave Too Soon. So We're Not There Soon Enough, And He Wants Us To Stay Forever Wherever We Send Troops.

Really, While Gas Is An Awful Thing To Watch - The Death Is Painful - To Even Watch These Deaths - It's Also Bad To Die From A Bullet, A Hand Grenade, Or A Machete.

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

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Who Gets To Decide Who's An Enemy Combatant And Who's An American Citizen? Are We Really So Frightened And So Easily Frightened That We Would Give Up A Thousand-year History?

You Campaigned Against Rich People And You Got Enough Envy Whipped Up In The Country And You're Gonna Get 'em. You're Gonna Stick It To Those Rich People. But Guess What? You May Not Get Anymore Revenue. You May Not Get Anymore Economic Growth. But You Can Say, 'i Stuck It To The Rich People.'

To Put Everyone In Government Housing And Food Stamps And Bring Them In From Around The World I Think Is A Mistake. To Give Of Your Own Money, I've Given To My Church. My Church Has Helped People That Came From Bosnia. That's A Good Thing.

The Great And Abiding Lesson Of American History, Particularly The Cold War, Is That The Engine Of Capitalism - The Individual - Is Mightier Than Any Collective.

We Don't Need Bigger Government. We Need To Shrink The Size Of Government.

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During The Great Depression African Americans Understood That Republicans Championed Citizenship And Voting Rights, But They Became Impatient For Economic Emancipation.

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

The Democrats Promised Equalizing Outcomes Through Unlimited Federal Assistance While Republicans Offered Something That Seemed Less Tangible - The Promise Of Equalizing Opportunity Through Free Markets.

America's Not The World's Policeman. Terrible Things Happen Across The Globe And It Is Beyond Our Means To Right Every Wrong. But When, With Modest Effort And Risk, We Can Stop Children From Being Gassed To Death And Thereby Make Our Own Children Safer Over The Long Run, I Believe We Should Act.

Everybody Is Looking For An Election Where They Can Do Something And Participate.

Can Do Something

The Question Is, How Do We Keep America Safe From Terrorism? [donald]trump Says We Ought To Close That Internet Thing. The Question Really Is, What Does He Mean By That? Like They Do In North Korea? Like They Do In China?

We Need A Republican Party That Shows Up On The South Side Of Chicago And Shouts At The Top Of Our Lungs, 'we Are The Party Of Jobs And Opportunity! The Gop Is The Ticket To The Middle Class.

I Want To Collect More Records From Terrorists, But Less Records From Innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment Was What We Fought The Revolution Over! John Adams Said It Was The Spark That Led To Our War For Independence, And I'm Proud Of Standing For The Bill Of Rights, And I Will Continue To Stand For The Bill Of Rights.

I'm Here In Whoopi Goldberg's Office Trying To Choose Some Shoes. We've Seen [marco] Rubio Has Those Cool New Boots And I Don't Want To Be Outdone.

I’ve Never Argued Against Any Technology Being Used When You Have An Imminent Threat, An Active Crime Going On. If Someone Comes Out Of A Liquor Store With A Weapon And Fifty Dollars In Cash, I Don’t Care If A Drone Kills Him Or A Policeman Kills Him.

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.

Any Time You Make An Analogy To Horrific People In History, Mussolini Or Hitler, People Say, 'oh, You're Exaggerating, You're Talking About, It's Hyperbole.' Maybe It Is. ... But I Would Say Is That If You Are Not Concerned That Democracy Could Produce Bad People, I Don't Think You're Really Thinking This Through Too Much.

I Think If Russia Is Really An Honest Signatory To The Chemical Weapons Ban, If Syria Wants To Be, Ultimately Someone Has To Be Responsible For Killing Civilians. And That's The Hard Part Out Of This.

Well, Let's Be Clear, I'm The Only One On The Stage Who Actually Has A Five-year Budget That Balances.

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."

If Americans Were Attacked, It Does Change The Equation. The Problem Is, Is That With Regard To This Is There've Been Horrendous Killings Of Civilians With Conventional Weapons.

I Think We're Never Fully Protected, But I Think We Need To Do Everything We Can To Stop Threats To Us.

I Never, Ever Cheated [in Medical School]. I Don't Condone Cheating. But I Would Sometimes Spread Misinformation. This Is A Great Tactic. Misinformation Can Be Very Important.

If You Give Up Your Rights Now, Don’t Expect To Get Them Back.

I Don't Want My Marriage Or My Guns Registered In Washington.

Big And Oppressive Government Has Long Been The Enemy Of Freedom, Something Black Americans Know All Too Well.

How Did The Party That Elected The First Black U.s. Senator, The Party That Elected The First 20 African-american Congressmen, How Did That Party Become A Party That Now Loses 95 Percent Of The Black Vote?

When You Couple This Militarization Of Law Enforcement With An Erosion Of Civil Liberties And Due Process That Allows The Police To Become Judge And Jury - National Security Letters, No-knock Searches, Broad General Warrants, Pre-conviction Forfeiture - We Begin To Have A Very Serious Problem On Our Hands.

My Great Grandfather, Like Many, Came To This Country In Search Of The American Dream.

I Support Local Solutions To Illegal Immigration As Protected By The 10th Amendment. I Support Making English The Official Language Of All Documents And Contracts.

I Think That, Most Importantly, When I See Issues Of War, I See Them In A Personal Vein, And I Am Reluctant To Go To War Unless There's A Real, Valid American Interest Because I've Seen The Wounded Soldiers.

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[john] Bolton Was An Advocate For Regime Change In Libya, So Was Hillary Clinton Actually. And Donald Trump Said It Was A Mistake. I Agree It Was A Mistake To Do Regime Change In Libya. We Became More Endangered And Actually Worse People Took Over Afterwards.

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.

I Think What We've Had In The Past Is The Government Has Said, "well, We Need To Collect The Whole Haystack." And The Haystack Is Americans' Privacy. Every Americans' Privacy. We Have To Give Up All Of Our Privacy.

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Does The Owner Of The Restaurant Own His Restaurant? Or Does The Government Own His Restaurant?

You Don't Know Who The Next Group Is That's Unpopular. The Bill Of Rights Isn't For The Prom Queen. The Bill Of Rights Isn't For The High School Quarterback. The Bill Of Rights Is For The Least Among Us. The Bill Of Rights Is For Minorities. The Bill Of Rights Is For Those Who Have Minority Opinions.

When We Toppled [muammar] Gadhafi In Libya, I Think That Was A Mistake. I Think Isis Grew Stronger, We Had A Failed State, And We Were More At Risk.

I've Introduced Legislation To Say, "for Right Now, Let's Stop It," From About 34 Countries.

I Think We Have A Tea Party Mandate, And That Tea Party Mandate Is For Good-government Type Of Things, Things Like Term Limits, Things Like A Balanced Budget Amendment, Things Like Read The Bills For Goodness Sakes, Things Like That Maybe Congress Should Only Pass Legislation That They Apply To Themselves As Well.

If I Were To Look At Foreign Policy, I Would Say John Mccain Has Been Wrong On Just About Everything Over The Last Four Decades.

I Think Those Who Have Wanted Regime [of Bashar Assad] Change Have Made A Mistake.

John Mccain Is The Guy That Has Advocated For War Everywhere. He Would Bankrupt The Nation.

Nobody Ever Was Fired For 9/11. Instead Of Firing The People Who Didn't Do A Good Job, We Gave Them Medals. The Guy Who Did A Good Job, I Don't Know What Happened To Him. And What We Did Was We Decided We'd Just Collect Everybody's Information. That We'd Sort Of Scrap The Bill Of Rights.

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

Institutional Racism

We Have Islamic Rebels [in Syria] Who've Been Eating The Hearts Or Organs Of Their Enemies. We Have Priests That Have Been Killed. We Have Christian Villages That Have Been Razed By Islamic Rebels. We Have Islamic Rebels Who Say They Don't Recognize Israel And Would Just As Soon Attack Israel As [bashar] Assad. So Really, I See No Clear-cut American Interest, And I'm Afraid That Sometimes Things Unravel, And The Situation Could Become Less Stable And Not More Stable.

I'm Not Opposed To Letting People Work And Labor In Our Country, But We Shouldn't Provide An Easy Route To Citizenship. We're The Only Country I Know Of Where A Person Can Come In Illegally And That Baby Becomes A Citizen And I Think That Should Stop Also.

We Still Need To Secure Our Southern Border. The Other Thing I Would Say Is We Need To Secure Who Visits Us In The Country.

If I Have A Weakness, It's That I Try To Live By The Rules. I Try To Live By The Rules, No Matter What They Are, And I Was Brought Up That Way As A Kid. Play By The Rules.

The Insurance Companies Make About $15 Billion A Year. They Have Doubled Their Profit Margin Under Obamacare. And So Now We're Going To Take A Lot Of This And Call It A Stabilization Fund, But Really It's A Bailout Of Insurance Companies. And I Just Think That's Wrong. I Just Can't See Why Ordinary, Average Taxpayers Would Be Giving Money To Very, Very Wealthy Corporations. An Analogous Situation Would Be This: We All Complain That New Cars Cost Too Much. Why Don't We Have A New Car Stabilization Fund And Give $130 Billion To Car Companies?

Let Me Be Clear: I Support The Civil Rights Act Because I Overwhelmingly Agree With The Intent Of The Legislation, Which Was To Stop Discrimination In The Public Sphere And Halt The Abhorrent Practice Of Segregation And Jim Crow Laws.

I'm An Internationalist. I Want To Help Others, Not Just Kill Terrorists.

I Don't Think We're Doing An Adequate Vetting Process Of Those Who Are Coming To Our Country.

I Am Pleased Though That There's A Possibility Of A Diplomatic Solution [in Syria]. I Remain Somewhat Skeptical, But I Am Pleased That It's A Possibility And I Think People Like Myself Who've Been Arguing For Delaying This Bombing, Have Allowed This Diplomatic Possibility To Occur.

We Should Not Have Drug Laws Or A Court System That Disproportionately Punishes The Black Community.

Out Of Regime Change You Get Chaos. From The Chaos You Have Seen Repeatedly The Rise Of Radical Islam. So We Get This Profession Of, Oh, My Goodness, They Want To Do Something About Terrorism And Yet They're The Problem Because They Allow Terrorism To Arise Out Of That Chaos.

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'm Not In Favor Of Any Discrimination Of Any Form.

We Are Borrowing $40,000 Per Second.

Is Donald Trump A Serious Candidate? The Reason I Ask This Is, If You're Going To Close The Internet, Realize, America, What That Entails. That Entails Getting Rid Of The First Amendment, Ok? It's No Small Feat.

In The Aftermath Of 9/11, The Patriot Act Was Rushed To The Floor. Several Hundred Pages. Nobody Read It ... But People Voted Because They Were Fearful And People Said There Could Be Another Attack And Americans Will Blame Me If I Don't Vote On This.

My Grandfather Would Live To See His Children Become Doctors And Ministers, Accounts And Professors.

40 Percent Of People Who Come To Visit America On A Visa Overstay Their Visa And We Have No Idea Where They Are. On 9/11, At Least 2 Of The Hijackers Were Here On Visa. They Were Traveling Back And Forth To The Middle East. And We Really Had No Idea Where They Were Or What They Were Doing. And They Were Overstaying Their Visa. So There Are Problems I Think In The Immigration System That Need To Be Fixed For Our Safety.

Actually We're Very Lucky John Mccain Is Not In Charge Because I Think We Would Be In Perpetual War.

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

I Went To My First National Convention In 1976, When My Family Supported [ronald] Reagan Over [gerald] Ford, So We've Always Been Republicans, But We've Always Wanted The Republican Party To Be The Party Of Fiscally Conservative, Limited-government Types. And I Think, Sometimes, We Haven't Done That As Well.

We Have A Lot Of Politicians Who Have Really Small Brains And Really Big Hearts.

I'm The Leading Voice In America For Not Arming The Allies Of Isis.

A Tea Party Tidal Wave Is Coming.

If Someone Tries To Put Limits On The Press, I'll Be The First One Standing Up For The Right Of Press, Left And Right, To Continue Saying And Being Part Of The Discussion And Forwarding The Discussion.

I Will Not Vote To Send My Sons, Or Your Sons, Daughters, Brothers, Sisters Or Friends To Fight For A Stalemate.

We Shouldn't Be Fearful Of Freedom, We Shouldn't Be Fearful Of Individual Liberty.

I Am Encouraged President Obama Now Says He Will Fulfill His Constitutional Obligation To Seek Authorization For Any Potential Military Action In Syria. This Is The Most Important Decision Any President Or Any Senator Must Make, And It Deserves Vigorous Debate

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.

I Am Running For President To Return Our Country To The Principles Of Liberty And Limited Government.

We As Republicans Have Taken The Easy Way Out A Lot Of Times.

I Will Advocate For Kentucky's Interests.

The One Way, Possibly, Out Of This Is For [bashar] Assad To Abdicate And Plead, Perhaps To Russia Or Somewhere Else. Would Save Another Wave Of Civilian Casualties If We Could Get Him To Abdicate.

If You're White And You're Rich In The Usa, If You Get Busted For Drugs, You Get A Good Attorney, And You In All Likelihood Serve No Time. But If You're Poor, Black, Hispanic, Or Poor And White For That Matter, You Can Get Put In Jail.

Our Legislative Victory - An End To Earmarks.

We Didn't Create Isis - Isis Created Themselves, But We Will Stop Them, And One Of The Ways We Stop Them Is By Not Funding Them, And Not Arming Them.

I Would Pay To Have Those Adjudications Enrolled Into The Federal Background System So We Could Detect People Who Are Mentally Ill Before They Buy A Gun. That Is A Real Problem.

The Separation Of Powers Is About Legislative Powers. It Isn't About Discussion Or Words.

Separation Of Powers

We Shouldn't Have A Program Where We Just Say That We're Going To Take Care Of The World's Refugees. Nobody In The Middle East Is Doing Anything. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait - All The Gulf Nations Are Doing Nothing.

We Have To Have A More Realistic Foreign Policy And Not A Utopian One Where We Say, Oh, We're Going To Spread Freedom And Democracy, And Everybody In The Middle East Is Going To Love Us. They Are Not Going To Love Us.

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