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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.

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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.

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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.

You Can See Why There Are More People Wanting To Come From Economically-distressed Areas, And They Can't All Come To America. So It Gets Into The Valid, Legitimate Debate Over Immigration As To How Do We Choose. Do We Have A Diversity Lottery And Take People From Everywhere, Do We Base It More On Merit?

The Government Has Investigated Our Program Of Collecting Through A Generalized Fashion, Everyone's Phone Records In The Country. And They Found That No Terrorist Case Has Been Thwarted Through This.

Cut Defense Spending As Part Of Cutting All Federal Spending.

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

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

I've Thought For Some Time That The Answer To A Lot Of Problems In The Middle East, Including Iran, Include An Active Role With Russia. And I Think, In Some Ways, We've Taken Show Votes In The U.n. That Are Guaranteed To Failure Before We Take Them.

With Regard To The Idea Of Whether You Have A Right To Health Care, You Have To Realize What That Implies. It’s Not An Abstraction. I’m A Physician. That Means You Have A Right To Come To My House And Conscript Me. It Means You Believe In Slavery. It Means That You’re Going To Enslave Not Only Me, But The Janitor At My Hospital, The Person Who Cleans My Office, The Assistants Who Work In My Office, The Nurses.

I Really Think That Discrimination And Racism Is A Horrible Thing. And I Don't Want Any Form Of It In Our Government, In Our Public Sphere.

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.

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

African American

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.

The Main Thing I Say On War Is That We Need To Obey The Law And Formally Declare War.

As Commander-in-chief, I Will Do Whatever It Takes To Defend America. But In Defending America, We Cannot Lose What America Stands For.

Whatever It Takes

Let's Start That Conversation By Acknowledging We Aren't Going To Deport 12 Million Illegal Immigrants. If You Wish To Work, If You Wish To Live And Work In America, Then We Will Find A Place For You.

Let's Say Tomorrow That There Was A President, That We Elected A President That Eliminated The Bulk Collection Of Data. Let's Just Say It Happened. What Do You Think Would Happen? People Are Like 'the Sky Would Fall. We Would Be Overrun With Jihadists.' Maybe We Could Rely On The Constitution. Maybe We Could Get Warrants. ... If You Make The Warrant Specific, There's No Limit To What You Can Get Through A Warrant.

What Is Immoral For An Individual To Do, Is Immoral For A Government To Do

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

When You Ask Yourself, Whoever You Are, That Think You're Going To Support Donald Trump, Think, Do You Believe In The Constitution? Are You Going To Change The Constitution?

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

I Would Have Never Released The Sanctions [for Iran] Before There Was Consistent Evidence Of Compliance.

For Most Of Our History, No One Dared To Tell Americans, You Don't Build That.

In A Reality, What We Should Be Doing Is Having Quiet Diplomacy With The Russians To Convince Them That It's In Their Self-interest To Have A More Stable Middle East Because Trade Enriches Us All.

I Was Very, Very Concerned About President Obama And How Much Executive Order And How Much Executive Power He Tried To Exert. But I Think I Want To Be, And I Think Congress Will Be, A Check On Any Executive, Republican Or Democrat, That Tries To Grasp Too Much Power. And Really, A Lot Of The Fault Is Not Only Presidents Trying To Take Too Much Power, It's Congress Giving Up Too Much Power.

We Need To Be Fearful Of Companies That Get So Big That They Can Actually Be Directing Policy.

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

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

Institutional Racism

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

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

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

The Bill Of Rights Existed Long Before President Obama Was Elected, And As Long As I’m A U.s. Senator, I Will Fight To Protect The Basic Rights And Liberties That Belong To All Of Us As American Citizens.

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