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President Obama, I Think, Wanted What Was Best For The Country, But I Think It Didn't Work Well. I Think We Have The Death Spiral, And I Think Particularly Premiums In The Individual Market Are Going Through The Roof. Republicans Want What's Best For The Country, But I Think They're Not Fixing The Death Spiral Of Obamacare. They're Going To Subsidize It With A Lot Of Taxpayer Money. So, Characterizing Something As Mean Or Generous I Think Goes To People's Motives, And I Think It Is Sort Of Why We Have Such An Angry Country Now. We Think That People Have Ill Motives.

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President Obama, I Think, Wanted What Was Best For The Country, But I Think It Didn't Work Well. I Think We Have The Death Spiral, And I Think Particularly Premiums In The Individual Market Are Going Through The Roof. Republicans Want What's Best For The Country, But I Think They're Not Fixing The Death Spiral Of Obamacare. They're Going To Subsidize It With A Lot Of Taxpayer Money. So, Characterizing Something As Mean Or Generous I Think Goes To People's Motives, And I Think It Is Sort Of Why We Have Such An Angry Country Now. We Think That People Have Ill Motives.

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Black And White

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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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Cut Defense Spending As Part Of Cutting All Federal Spending.

I've Put Pencil To Paper... And I've Said I Would Cut Spending, And I've Said Exactly Where. Each One Of My Budgets Has Taken A Meat Axe To Foreign Aid, Because I Think We Ought To Quit Sending It To Countries That Hate Us.

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

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

African American

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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 Want My Marriage Or My Guns Registered In Washington.

I Think It's A Mistake To Downgrade And Say Surveillance Is No Big Deal. It Is A Huge Deal That We Are Collecting Millions Of Americans Phone Calls And That Someone Can Go To A Keyboard And Put Your Name In And Search It Without A Warrant.

I Want To See The Original Long-form Certificate Of Donald Trump's Republican Registration.

You Can Tell A Person's Religion 85 Percent Of The Time From Their Phone Records.

Foreign Aid Is Not Something The Vast Majority Of Americans Support, But Definitely Not Conservatives.

Should It Be Prohibited For Private Entities Such As A Church, Bed And Breakfast Or Retirement Neighborhood That Doesn't Want Noisy Children? Absolutely Not.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

If You Are Going To Kill The Families Of Terrorists, Realize That There's Something Called The Geneva Convention We're Going To Have To Pull Out Of. It Would Defy Every Norm That Is America.

I Have Allowed The President To Pick His Political Appointees…but I Will Not Sit Quietly And Let Him Shred The Constitution.

I Would Never Belong To Any Club That Excluded Anybody For Race.

I'm A Different Kind Of Republican. I've Introduced A Five-year Balanced Budget. I've Introduced The Largest Tax Cut In Our History. I Stood For Ten And A Half Hours On The Senate Floor To Defend Your Right To Be Left Alone. But I've Also Gone To Chicago. I've Gone To Detroit. I've Been To Ferguson, I've Been To Baltimore, Because I Want Our Party To Be Bigger, Better And Bolder...

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

Well, I Think A Handshake Is Something That Honorable Men Do. Before We Had Contracts We Had Handshakes That Expressed That We Were Making An Arrangement That Was Based On Our Honor. And I Don't Think I Can Shake The Hand Of Someone Who Shows And Lacks Honor By Attacking A Man's Faith.

Why Don't We See Any Questions From The Press? Why Don't We See Anybody From The Media Saying, 'mr. President, It's Illegal, You Started It, You Are Performing A Program That Is Collecting All Of The Phone Records From All Americans, It's Been Declared Illegal From The Second Highest Court In The Land, Why Don't You Stop?'

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

It's A Little Different When You Spend 30 Years Developing All These Companies That We Just Ask [donald Trump] To Sell Them. So I Don't Think That's A Fair Request.

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.

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

2007 Was A Long Time Ago, And Events Do Change Over Long Periods Of Time.

Join Us In The Fight To Defeat The Washington Machine. It’s Fun And Easy To Get Started. You Can Make A Difference And Change The Direction Of Our Country! Join Today.

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.

When I Asked The President [barack Obama], Can You Kill An American On American Soil, It Should Have Been An Easy Answer. It's An Easy Question. It Should Have Been A Resounding And Unequivocal No. The President's Response, He Hasn't Killed Anyone Yet.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I Do Believe People Ought To Be Left Alone. I Don't Care Who You Are Or What You Do At Home Or Who Your Friends Are Or Where You Hang Out, What Kind Of Music You Listen To, What You Do In Your Home Is Your Own Business. That's Always Been Who I Am. I Am A Leave Me Alone Kind Of Guy.

[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.

If Our Freedom Is Taken, The American Dream Will Wither And Die.

There Is Nothing Conservative About Bailing Out Wall Street. Likewise, There Is Nothing Progressive About Billion Dollar Loans To Millionaires To Build Solar Panels.

No Republican Questions Or Disputes Civil Rights. I Have Never Wavered In My Support For Civil Rights Or The Civil Rights Act.

I Don't Care If You're A Republican Or A Democrat, There Is Something Profoundly Un-american About Using The Brute Force Of Government To Bully Someone.

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