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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.

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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.

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

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Black And White

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African American

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

African American

People Who Want To Come To This Country Don't Have Constitutional Rights. Once They Get Here, They Do. But Coming Here Is Not A Constitutional Right. So With Do, As A Nation, Have The Ability And Should Have The Ability To Decide Who Comes Here And When They Come Here.

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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?

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

The Current Budget That The Republicans Are Looking At Never Balances. How Can That Be Fiscally Responsible? And How Can We Look At The Public With A Straight Face And Say Yes We Ran On Balanced Budgets.

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.

I Think It's A Little Premature To Talk About Response Until We Know Exactly What Happened, But We Should Know What Happened. And We Should Know How To Defend [against Hackers Attacks] Ourselves Without Question.

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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

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.

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?

Any Time We Give People The Ability To Use Force, We Have To Be Very Careful. It's Sort Of Like The People Who Spy On Us - You've Got To Watch The Watchers.

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.

In Our State, I'm Really Proud Of The Fact That The Ones Who Overturned Jim Crow In Kentucky Were Republicans Fighting Against An Entirely Unified Democrat Party. So I Am Proud To Be Republican. I Can't Imagine Being Anything Else.

My Worry Now Is That Many People Are Talking About A Partial Repeal Of Obamacare. If You Only Repeal Part Of It And You Leave If Some Sort Of Obamacare Light, Which Some Are Talking About, My Fear Is The Situation Actually Gets Worse.

There Is Often Variations Of Evil On Both Sides Of The War. What We Have To Decide Is Whether Or Not Regime Change Is A Good Idea. It's What The Neoconservatives Have Wanted. It's What The Vast Majority Of Those On The Stage Want.

I've Had An Interest In Politics Since I Was A Little Kid.

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.

There Are Still People - The Majority On The Stage, They Want To Topple [bashar] Assad. And Then There Will Be Chaos, And I Think Isis Will Then Be In Charge Of Syria.

I Will Continue To Fight For Legislation That Forces Congress To Read The Bills! I Will Fight For A Vote On My Bill That Calls For A Waiting Period For Each Page Of Legislation. I Will Continue To Object When Congress Sticks Special Interest Riders On Bills In The Dead Of Night! And If Congress Refuses To Obey Its Own Rules, If Congress Refuses To Pass A Budget, If Congress Refuses To Read The Bills, Then I Say: Sweep The Place Clean. Limit Their Terms And Send Them Home!

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

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Both Sides Of The Aisle - Republican And Democrat - Have Been Unwilling And Afraid To Address The Deficit, And Someone's Got To.

We Must Protect Ourselves From Jihadis Without Losing Ourselves.

Losing Ourselves

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

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.

If We Believe [obama] To Be A Good Man Who Would Never Kill Noncombatants In A Cafe In Houston, Sitting Out In A Sidewalk Cafe, Smoking - Oh, That's Right You're Not Allowed To Smoke Cigarettes Anymore.

The Idea Of Foreign Policy Realism, I Think, Fits More Neatly With President Trump. And With John Mccain, The Neoconservative Label Of Let's Make The World Safe For Democracy And We're Going To Topple Every Regime Hasn't Worked.

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.'

The Constitution Was Not Written To Restrain The Citizen's Behavior, It Was Writtne To Restrain The Government's Behavior.

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

The U.s. Should Never Get Involved Where We Have No Clear National Interest. We Should Not Intervene Militarily In A Country Like Syria, Where We Can’t Separate Friend From Foe And Might End Up Arming The Very People Who Hate Us The Most.

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.

The Other Thing I Said Is The Great Irony Is You Will Be Back Fighting Against Your Own Weapons. Had [bashar] Assad Been Bombed When He Used Chemical Weapons Two Years Ago, Isis Would Be In Charge Of All Of Syria Now.

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.

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

We Need A Revival In The Country,” Paul Said. “we Need Another Great Awakening With Tent Revivals Of Thousands Of People Saying, 'reform Or See What's Going To Happen If We Don't Reform.'

I'm The Third Of Five Children.

I Do Want To See An Immigration Compromise. And You Can't Have An Immigration Compromise If Everybody's Out There Calling The President A Racist.

I Think It's A Conundrum. If We Have No Laws On This, People Take It To One Extension Further, Does It Have To Be Humans, You Know?

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.

What I Can Say Is, Is That If You Do A Poll, And One Of The Worldwide Polling Companies Did This, And They Asked People In 50 Countries, "would You Like To Come To America," It's About 700 Million Would Come Next Year. We Would Double Our Population.

We Had People Coming To Our Foreign Relations Committee And Saying, "oh, We Need To Arm The Allies Of Al Qaida." They Are Still Saying This. It Is A Crazy Notion. This Is The Biggest Debate We Should Be Having Is Is Regime Change A Good Idea; Has It Been A Good Idea.

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

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On Vague Wording Of Drone Strike Criteria: “are You Going To Just Drop A Hellfire Missile On Jane Fonda? Are You Going To Drop A Missile On Kent State? That’s Gobbledygook.

I Do Not Yet Know If I Will Find A Romney Presidency More Acceptable On Foreign Policy. But I Do Know That I Must Oppose The Most Recent Statements Made By Mitt Romney In Which He Says He, As President, Could Take Us To War Unilaterally With Iran, Without Any Approval From Congress.

Because Republicans Believe That The Federal Government Is Limited In Its Function-some Have Concluded That Republicans Are Somehow Inherently Insensitive To Minority Rights. Nothing Could Be Further From The Truth.

In Battle, Combatants Engaged In War Against America Get No Due Process And May Lawfully Be Killed. But Citizens Not In A Battlefield - However Despicable - Are Guaranteed A Trial By Our Constitution. No One Argues That Americans Who Commit Treason Shouldn't Be Punished. The Maximum Penalty For Treason Is Death. But The Constitution Specifies The Process Necessary To Convict.

What My Bill Would Do Would Be Only For Refugees Going Forward. So I Haven't Taken A Position On Sending Anyone Home. But I Have Taken The Position That We Have A Lot Of Problems Here In Our Country. And That One Of The Things That We Do - Charity Is About Giving Your Own Money. Charity Isn't Giving Someone Else's Money.

You Either Believe In The Constitution, Or You Don't.

I'm Not Someone Who's Sort Of Still Trying To Figure Out What I Believe In.

The Coarsening Of Our Culture Towards Violent Death Has More Consequences Than War. Tragically, This Same Culture Has Led To The Death Of 50 Million Unborn Children In The Last 40 Years. I Don't Think A Civilization Can Long Endure That Does Not Have Respect For All Human Life, Born And Not Yet Born. I Believe There Will Come A Time When We Are All Judged On Whether Or Not We Took A Stand In Defense Of All Life From The Moment Of Conception Until Our Last Natural Breath.

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.

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

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.

I Think The Vast Majority Of The American People Say You Shouldn't Be Able To Collect My Phone Records If I'm Not Suspicious, If You Don't Have Probable Cause.

Cut Defense Spending As Part Of Cutting All Federal Spending.

I Think When We Think About The Judgment Of Someone Who Might Want World War Iii, We Might Think About Someone Who Might Shut Down A Bridge Because They Don't Like Their Friends.

I Don't Think It's So Much Trump Lobbing Us For Changes. It's Us Asking Him For Help In Getting The Changes Done. I Think Trump Has The Bully Pulpit. He Has A Great Deal Of Influence With The Republican Party On Both The House And The Senate Side. The Bill Right Now To The Conservative Point Of View Doesn't Have Enough Repeal. It Looks Like We're Keeping A Lot Of Obamacare. So We Actually Think That There Needs To Be More Repeal. That's The Message I Took To Trump.

I Think My Dad Has Helped Me Tremendously.

What I Say Is, National Defense Is The Most Important Thing We Do In Washington, But There's Still Waste In The Military Budget.

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 Will Speak Until I Can No Longer Speak. I Will Speak As Long As It Takes, Until The Alarm Is Sounded From Coast To Coast That Our Constitution Is Important, That Your Rights To Trial By Jury Are Precious, That No American Should Be Killed By A Drone On American Soil Without First Being Charged With A Crime, Without First Being Found To Be Guilty By A Court.

If There Are Few Conservatives In The Senate Wing Of The Republican Party That Will Say No To A Budget That Never Balances, We Could Have The Power To Say To The Leadership, You Know What, Need A Better Budget.

Our Intervention To Destabilize The Assad Regime Has Really Made The Chaos Worse In Syria. And If You Were To Get Rid Of Assad Today, I Would Actually Worry About The 2 Million Christians That Are Protected By Assad.

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.

A Free Society Will Abide Unofficial, Private Discrimination, Even When That Means Allowing Hate-filled Groups To Exclude People Based On The Color Of Their Skin.

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.

Many States And Even Many People Who Are In Support Of The Death Penalty Question Their Support Of The Death Penalty Because Of The Imperfection Of Our Courts. Through Dna Testing, We Don't Always Get It Right, Even With That.

Whether Or Not Regime Change Is A Good Idea Or A Bad Idea. I Don't Think Because I Think The Regime Change Was A Bad Idea It Means That Hussein Was Necessarily A Good Idea.

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

Separation Of Powers

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.

Just Because A Couple People On The Supreme Court Declare Something To Be 'constitutional' Does Not Make It So.

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