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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.

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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.

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Black And White

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Roll Back Federal Spending To 2008 Levels.

Federal Spending

I Believe People Ought To Be Treated Fairly Under The Law. I See No Reason Why If The Marriage Contract Conveys Certain Things That If You Want To Marry Another Woman That You Can Do That And Have A Contract. But The Thing Is Is The Religious Connotation Of Marriage That Has Been Going On For Thousands Of Years, I Still Want To Preserve That. And You Probably Could Have Both. You Could Have Both Traditional Marriage, Which I Believe In. And Then You Could Also Have The Neutrality Of The Law That Allows People To Have Contracts With Another.

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

You Shouldn't Have One Opinion When You're Running And Another When You're President.

What Most Americans Don't Realize Is There Is An Unholy Alliance. They Come Together. There's A Secret Handshake. We Spend More Money On Everything. And We Are Not Stronger Nation If We Go Further Into Debt. We Are Not Projecting Power From Bankruptcy Court.

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

If You Are Accused Of Being Associated With Terrorism, Which Could Mean You Are An Arab- American And You've Sent E-mails To A Relative In The Middle East, You Should Get Your Day In Court, And I Think You Should Get A Lawyer And A Trial, And I Think Most Americans Agree To That.

I Still Say Exactly What My Original Opinion Is. Do You Borrow Money From China To Send It To Anyone? Out Of Your Surplus, You Can Help Your Allies, And Israel Is A Great Ally. And This Is No Particular Animus Of Israel, But What I Will Say, And I Will Say Over And Over Again, We Cannot Give Away Money We Don't Have.

In 1997, I, Along With 200 Other Young Ophthalmologists Formed The National Board Of Ophthalmology To Protest The American Board Of Ophthalmology's Decision To Grandfather In The Older Ophthalmologists And Not Require Them To Recertify.

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.

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.

Bipartisanship Is Not What Is Missing In Washington. Common Sense Is.

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.

If You Force Legislators To Balance, At The End Of The Day, If It Has To Be Balanced, Then They Step Up And They Become Legislators And Can Find Out Where To Cut.

The End Of The Day

I Need To Be Very Careful About Going On Certain Networks That Seem To Have A Bias.

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.

Unless You Really Stand For Something, People Aren't Motivated To Go Out And Vote For You.

The Problem Is That In Our Country, They Make It Almost Impossible For Politicians To Win Anything. In England It's Easier To Win A Libel Suit.

The Money In The Stabilization Fund, $130 Billion Which I Call An Insurance Bailout, Is Put In To Try To Cure The Adverse Selection That Obamacare Created By Making Insurance Too Expensive. Healthy People Didn't Buy It. They Tried To Fix This By Forcing Young People To Buy It Through An Individual Mandate. Even That Didn't Work. So The Way The Republicans Fix It Is They Don't Actually Fix It. They Subsidize It. So We Have To Fix What Went Wrong With Obamacare, Not Just Recapitulate Something That's Broken.

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.

This Flirtation With Isolationism In The Republican Party Is Over. It's Giving Way To A More Muscular Foreign Policy Than I've Been Advocating. But I'm Also Advocating Building Up Others. Build A Small Schoolhouse In Afghanistan To Help A Poor Young Girl Have A Say About Her Children Will Destroy The Ideology More Than A Bomb.

The Fundamental Problem Of Obamacare Is The Insurance Mandates. When You Mandate What Has To Be Insurance, It Elevates The Price. And When You Tell People They Can Buy Insurance After They're Sick, They Will. And You Get What's Called Adverse Selection.

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

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.

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.

For Liberty To Expand, Government Must Shrink. For The Economy To Grow, Government Must Get Out Of The Way.

We Must Protect Ourselves From Jihadis Without Losing Ourselves.

Losing Ourselves

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?

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.

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