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Moammar Gadhafi And The Revolt Against Gadhafi Was Not Started By The United States. It Was Started By The Libyan People. And The Reason Why I Argued We Needed To Get Involved Is Because He Was Going To Go One Way Or The Other. And My Argument Then Was Proven True, And That Is, The Longer That Civil War Took, The More Militias Would Be Formed And The More Unstable The Country Would Be After The Fact.

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Moammar Gadhafi And The Revolt Against Gadhafi Was Not Started By The United States. It Was Started By The Libyan People. And The Reason Why I Argued We Needed To Get Involved Is Because He Was Going To Go One Way Or The Other. And My Argument Then Was Proven True, And That Is, The Longer That Civil War Took, The More Militias Would Be Formed And The More Unstable The Country Would Be After The Fact.

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[cuba's Goverment] Is An Anti-american Government.

American Government

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To Tackle The Big And Relevant Issues Of The Day With Bold And Innovative Ideas Is Without Question The Most Rewarding Way To Serve.

Leaders At The Highest Levels Of Our Government Are Undertaking A Deliberate And Systematic Effort To Redefine Our Government, Our Economy And Our Country.

I Believe That Every Single Human Being Is Entitled To The Protection Of Our Laws, Whether They Can Vote Or Not. Whether They Can Speak Or Not. Whether They Can Hire A Lawyer Or Not. Whether They Have A Birth Certificate Or Not. And I Think Future Generations Will Look Back At This History Of Our Country And Call Us Barbarians For Murdering Millions Of Babies Who We Never Gave Them A Chance To Live.

Free Enterprise Is The Best Economic System In The History Of The World, Because It Is The Only System Where You Can Make Poor People Richer And You Don't Have To Make Rich People Poor.

Do Not Be Afraid To Offer Ideas That Draw Opposition. Remember, If No One Is Against Your Idea, Then Your Idea Probably Doesn't Do Anything.

I`m Running For President Because I Want To Change The Direction Of This Country, And It Will Require Me For The Time Being To Miss Some Votes In The U.s.

The Politics Of Resentment Against Other People Will Not Just Leave The Republican Party A Fractured Party. They're Going To Leave Us A Fractured Nation. They're Going To Leave Us As A Nation Where People Literally Hate Each Other Because They Have Different Political Opinions.

For More Than Two Generations, My Family Had Never Achieved Their Ambitions. Their Talents Were Unappreciated And Unused. They Deserved Better. They Hadn't Done Anything Wrong; They Just Had Some Bad Breaks. Why Was I Succeeding? Why Was I Living My Dreams? I Wasn't More Deserving Than They Were. I Wasn't Smarter Or A Better Person. What Was The Difference Between Us That Allowed Me To Attain So Much In A Short Time? America. America Was The Difference. I Had Been Born A Citizen Of The Greatest Nation In All Of Human History.

I Think What We Need To Do Is Understand Our Number One Obligation Is To Act In The National Interest Of The United States Of America. I Believe It Is In Our National Interest To See Democracy Take Hold On The Island Of Cuba. And So We Examine Our Foreign Policy, Including All The Changes That President Obama Made, In That Lens And Through That Lens.

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I Think God Has Blessed Us. He Has Blessed The Republican Party With Some Very Good Candidates. The Democrats Can't Even Find One.

Conservatives Believe That We Need To Defeat Radical Islam Not Because We Want War But Because Isis And Other Radical Islamist Are Enemies Of Peace And That's Why We Need A President, Who In Which Under Whom The Best Intelligence Agencies In The World Will Find Terrorists And The Best Military In The World Will Destroy Them. And If We Capture Them Alive, A President That Will Bring Them To The United States. A President That Will Grant Them A Court-appointed Lawyer, A President That Will Send These Terrorists Where They Belong, To Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

I Think War And Armed Conflict Is Always The Last Of All The Options You Have On The Table. I Think You Try To Avoid That At All Costs. Sometimes It's Unavoidable. That's The Lesson Of World War Ii. I Think The Other Lesson Of The Last 50 Or 60 Years, However, Is That, The Stronger The U.s. Military, The Stronger Our Defense Capabilities, The Stronger The Chances For Peace Are.

If Someone Knows Of A Job Creator Anywhere In The World That's Looking For A High, Complex Tax Environment Or Looking For A High Regulatory Environment, I Would Like To Meet Them Because I Have Yet To Meet A Job Creator That's Looking For That, And That's What We Have.

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I'm Not Interested In Being Donald Trump Or Anybody Else's Vice President, That's Not What I'm Aiming At.

It Is Hard For Me To Imagine Retiring At 65 And Spending The Next Quarter Century Not Working. I Expect To Be Working, Doing Something Productive And Fulfilling.

They [ The Government Of Puerto Rico] Are Asking To Be Given The Right To Declare Bankruptcy, Which I Think Should Be An Option, As A Last Resort, If There Is No Other Resource. But There Also Need To Be Measures, Changes Within The Government Of Puerto Rico, In The Ways That The Island's Funds Are Administered, Not Just To Deal With This Budget Issue, But Also To Have, To Attract The Economic Growth That Is Necessary For Puerto Rico To Begin To Grow Economically. They Are Losing Population, And They Are Losing Economically.

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Most Countries Choose To Have Government Run The Economy.

Donald Trump Is Pulling Off A World-class Scam Here. I Mean, He's Telling People He's All These Things That He's Never Been His Entire Life. He Says He's Fighting For The Little Guy, The Working Class. He Has Spent His Entire Business Career Sticking It To Working People.

Unfortunately, President Obama's Failed Policies Of New Regulations, Higher Taxes, And Obamacare And His Anti-business Rhetoric Have Hit Hispanics Especially Hard. Big Government Really Hurts Those Who Are Trying To Make It.

I Am As Conservative As Anyone Running In This [president's] Race, But I Am A Conservative That Can Win. That's A Big Deal.

We Need To Ensure That Our Foreign Policy Towards Cuba Incentivizes And Makes It Easier For There To Be A Democratic Transition. That Is How I Would Examine Our Foreign Policy Towards Cuba.

There Is One Way, Only One Way To Solve It, And That Is Through Legislation. It Cannot Be Through An Unconstitutional Executive Order That Violates The Constitution. That Is, It Doesn't Matter Here What You Think About Immigration: Here You Cannot Violate The Nation's Constitution, Period.

I'm Always Looking For A Way To Serve The Nation, But I Don't Believe That It Will Be As Vice President And I'm Really Not Seeking It, I'm Not Requesting It And It Won't Happen.

Our Problem With President Obama Isn't That He's A Bad Person. By All Accounts, He Too Is A Good Husband, And A Good Father - And Thanks To Lots Of Practice, A Pretty Good Golfer.

How Can I Justify The Cuban Adjustment Act When There Are People Coming From Cuba Saying That They Come - That They Have - That They Should Be Treated Differently From Other Migrants? But They're Going Back To That Country.

When I'm President, The Senate Bill Is Not Going To Be What We're Operating Off Of. It's Going To Begin By Focusing On Securing Our Border First And Foremost. And Until You Do That, You're Not Going To Be Able To Do Anything Else.

The Most Important Thing Of All Is My Parents Were Able To Leave All Four Of Their Children Better Off Than Themselves. That Story Has A Name, It's Called The American Dream.

Cuba Continues To Be A Source Of Instability In The Region. For Example, Historic Numbers Of People Are Fleeing The Island Of Cuba, Putting Migratory Pressure On The United States. Number Two, This Cuban Government Is Anti-american. They Sponsor - They Allow The Chinese And The Russians To Conduct Espionage, Electronic Espionage And Others From The Island Of Cuba.

What Is The Conservative Movement? It's Pretty Straightforward. We Believe That The Way Prosperity Is Created Is When People Have The Freedom And The Opportunity To Pursue Their Dreams.

In Politics, People Throw Around The Word 'friend' So Much It Often Has Little Real Meaning. This Is Not One Of Those Times, When I Call Jeb Bush My Friend, I Mean He Is Someone I Like, Care For And Respect. He And I Have Worked Closely Together For Many Years, On Issues Big And Small. He Is A Passionate Advocate For What He Believes, And I Welcome Him To The Race.

Let's Stop Big Government Energy Mandates Like Cap-and-trade, And Instead Trust The American Innovator To Make Us Energy Independent.

Let's Be Honest - Bill Murray Was Onto Something When He Laughed At Andie Macdowell's Degree In 19th Century French Poetry In 'groundhog Day'.

We Will Either Bring On Another American Century, Or We Are Doomed To Witness America's Decline.

Well, Who's Going To Be Fired When Ted Cruz Is President? Because This Campaign Now Has Repeatedly Done Things That They Have To Apologize For And No One's Ever Held Accountable.

You Cannot Do Anything Without God.it's A Profound And Elemental Truth. Not, You Cannot Do Most Things Without God. You Will Not Be Able To Do Anything That You Want, Truly, In Fulfillment, Without God.

It Should Not Be Hard To Say That Vladimir Putin's Military Has Conducted War Crimes In Aleppo Because It Is Never Acceptable For Military To Specifically Target Civilians, Which Is What's Happened There, Through The Russian Military.

This Opportunity – To Make It To The Middle Class Or Beyond No Matter Where You Start Out In Life – It Isn't Bestowed On Us From Washington. It Comes From A Vibrant Free Economy Where People Can Risk Their Own Money To Open A Business.

I Can Tell You What I Believe, Particularly About Mexican-americans: They Are A Community That Has Contributed Greatly To This Country, They Work Extremely Hard, They've Been Very Productive Citizens Of Our Country, And I Think That's True Of Many Ethnic Groups In This Country.

We Do Have To Treat People The Way Americans Always Treat People, With The Highest Level Of Compassion And Care. But They Will Have To Be Returned, Because That Is The Law. If You Ignore That, If You Don't Apply That - As Heartbreaking As It May Be - You Are Basically Telling Another 80,000 People To Try To Come.

I Believe That The Bigger Problem Is That We're Seeing People Who Arrive From Cuba And A Year And A Day Later Are Travelling To Cuba 40 Times A Year, They're Staying, And That's Hard To Justify. The Problem Is Not That I Want To Deny Anything To Anyone; It Is The Need To Justify Those Laws.

My Hope Is That The Pope Francis Visit To Cuba Will Remind All The Cuban Citizens That They Possess Dignity And Fundamental Rights That Come From God And That The Castro Regime Has No Claim On Changing What Is 100% God-given.

I Am Privileged To Be A Citizen Of The Single Greatest Society In All Of Human History.

America Is Still The Land Of Opportunity For Most, But It Is Not A Land Of Opportunity For All. If We Are To Remain An Exceptional Nation, We Must Close This Gap In Opportunity.

American Dream Is Under Assault. People That Haven't Been Able To Find A Job In Months And This Growing Sense In This Country That This Is The New Normal, Well We Can't Accept That.

The Best Thing That Could Happen For The President Donald Trump, And The Country, Is A Full And Credible Investigation.

My Dad Was A Bartender. My Mom Was A Cashier, A Maid And A Stock Clerk At K-mart. They Never Made It Big. They Were Never Rich. And Yet They Were Successful. Because Just A Few Decades Removed From Hopelessness, They Made Possible For Us All The Things That Had Been Impossible For Them.

We Focus So Much On How Immigrants Can Change America That We Forget That America Has Always Changed Immigrants Even More.

Conservatism Is Not About Leaving People Behind. Conservatism Is About Empowering People To Catch Up, To Give Them The Tools At Their Disposable That Make It Possible For Them To Access All The Hope, All The Promise, All The Opportunity That America Offers. And Our Programs To Help Them Should Reflect That.

There Is Nothing That We Are Allowed To Do Under Usa Freedom Act That We Could Not Do Before.

We Will Have To Work Around The World With Less Than Ideal Governments. The Government In Saudi Arabia Is Not A Democracy, But We Will Have To Work With Them. The Government In Jordan Is Not Perfect, But We Will Have To Work With Them. But Anti-american Dictators Like [bashar] Assad, Who Help Hezbollah, Who Helped Get Those Ieds Into Iraq, If They Go, I Will Not Shed A Tear.

We Are Special Because We've Been United Not By A Common Race Or Ethnicity. We're Bound Together By Common Values. That Family Is The Most Important Institution In Society. That Almighty God Is The Source Of All We Have.

There Is A Lot Of Fiscal Conservatives In The United States Senate That Didn't Vote For That Because We Understand That National Security Spending Is Not The Reason Why We Have A Debt. Our Debt Is Being Driven By The Way Social Security, Medicare, And Medicaid And, By The Way, The Interest On The Debt Is Structured In The Years To Come.

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People End Up Fleeing Countries Who Adopt Economic Policies Based On These Flawed Principles. And More Often Than Not, They Come Here.

I Believe That The Cuban Adjustment Act Must Be Re-examined.

I Think Crisis Starts With The Government Of Puerto Rico. It Has To Take Measures To Solve The Fiscal Problems That It Has, Which Are Very Serious. It's Very Basic: It's The Same Thing That Is Happening In Washington.

If In Fact The Rates Go Up Because The President Refuses To Budge Then He Will Have To Answer For That Next Year When Our Economy Is Not Growing. When, Unfortunately, People Lose Their Jobs Who Work At A Dental Clinic As A Medical Billing Specialist, Or The Paralegal At A Law Firm Loses Their Job, Or The Courier At The Law Firm Loses A Job, These Are Not Millionaires And Billionaires.

I Am But A Generation Removed From Poverty And Despair. Where Would I Be Today If There Had Never Been An America? What Kind Of Lives Or Future Would My Children Have If This Was Not A Land Of Opportunity?

America Is The Story Of Everyday People Who Did Extraordinary Things. A Story Woven Deep Into The Fabric Of Our Society.

I Always Tell People I'm Running Against Two Democrats, One That Admits It And One That Does Not.

Free Enterprise Makes People Prosperous, All People Prosperous, And Big Government Makes People Poorer.

It Wouldn't Be Bad To Have The Secret Service Keeping An Eye On My Teenage Daughter. I Personally Am Not Troubled By The Fact That There Would Be A Couple Of Big Guys With Earpieces Beside Her, Just In Case.

In 2013 We Had Never Faced A Crisis Like The Syrian Refugee Crisis Now. Up Until That Point, A Refugee Meant Someone Fleeing Oppression, Fleeing Communism Like It Is In My Community.

The World Is A Safer And Better Place That The United States Is The Strongest Military Power On Earth. The Stronger You Are, The Less Likelihood You'll Ever Have To Use It.

I Believe We Must Study Which Changes Must Be Made Now That The Immigration System Has Changed, Because We Are Seeing, I Believe, That At This Time We Are Inviting People To Come To The U.s. On Very Dangerous Trips.

Conservatives Aren't Anti-immigrant - Conservatives Are Pro-legal Immigration.

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It Was A Very Unusual Year [2015]. You Usually Don't Have Five Campaigns Operating Full Time In A State This Late Into The Process, Three States In. But I Feel Great That Now That The Choices Have Become Less And Less, More And More That New Voter Or Alternative To Donald Trump Vote, Is Going To Coalesce Around Us.

People Are Really Angry At Washington. And They Have A Right To Be. It's Why I Ran In 2010, By The Way.

For Those Who Aspire To Live In A High Cost, High Tax, Big Government Place, Our Nation And The World Offers Plenty Of Options. Vermont, Canada And Venezuela All Offer You The Opportunity To Live In The Socialist, Big Government Paradise You Long For.

For Years We Have Seen People Coming On Rafts, Etc., But Now We Are Seeing People Entering Central America, Costa Rica, Panama And Then They Have Nowhere To Go Because Those Countries Are Not - For Example, In Nicaragua, The Border Was Closed. I've Always Said That I'm Open To A Study On How Can It Be Changed.

I Have Almost The Same Number Of Days Left As Barack Obama Has In The White House. So We Are Going To Stay Focused On This Job. I Am Enjoying It A Lot. And We Are Going To See If We Can Achieve Some Very Good Things Before The End Of The Year.

Obviously I Don't Agree With Everything He [donald Trump] Says. There's A Lot That We Have A Difference Of Opinion On. But We Can't Ignore That He's Touched On Some Issues That People Are Concerned About. If You Look At The Statements He Made This Week, Obviously I Think He Made Them Partially To Recapture The Limelight After Having Lost It.

I Want Immigration Reform To Pass, I Want People To Be Able To Come Out Of The Shadows.

If Cuba Wants Normal Relations, There's Certain Things They Need To Do Like Become A Normal Country That Respects The Rights Of Their Citizens.

I Spent Six Years As A Child Growing Not Far From Las Vegas.i Use To Sit On The Porch Of Our Home And Listen To My Grandfather Tell Stories As He Smoked One Of Three Daily Cigars.one Of The Things My Grandfather Instilled In Me, Was That I Was Really Blessed Because I Was A Citizen Of The Greatest Country In The History Of Our Mankind.

I'm Simply Asking That People Who Arrive From Cuba Receive The Same Treatment As Any Other Immigrant Who Comes From Another Country. The Only Difference, Obviously, Is That The Cuban Adjustment Act Will Remain In Effect, That A Cuban Who Arrives Today From Cuba May Remain In The U.s.

Cubans Must Prove That They're Political Refugees. And If They Can Prove That They're Really Fleeing Persecution, Well, They Would Qualify As Refugees.

Isis Is The Most Sophisticated Terror Threat We Have Ever Faced. We Are Now At A Time When We Need More Tools, Not Less Tools. And That Took We Lost, The Metadata Program, Was A Valuable Tool That We No Longer Have At Our Disposal.

What I Have Advocated Is That We Pass Law In This Country That Says All Human Life At Every Stage Of Its Development Is Worthy Of Protection. In Fact, I Think That Law Already Exists. It Is Called The Constitution Of The United States.

They Made It To The Middle Class, My Dad Working As A Bartender And My Mother As A Cashier And A Maid. I Didn't Inherit Any Money From Them. But I Inherited Something Far Better - The Real Opportunity To Accomplish My Dreams.

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