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Reject The Phony Patients' Bill Of Rights....we Don't Have To Continue Down The Path Of Socialized Medical Care, Especially In America Where Free Markets Have Provided So Much For So Many.

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Reject The Phony Patients' Bill Of Rights....we Don't Have To Continue Down The Path Of Socialized Medical Care, Especially In America Where Free Markets Have Provided So Much For So Many.

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If Somebody's In Prison For Non-violence, Drug Usage, And Never Committed A Hard Crime, They Should Be Pardoned And Let Out.

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Unskilled And Inexperienced Workers Are The Ones Most Often Deprived Of Employment Opportunities By Increases In The Minimum Wage.

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Sexually-transmitted Diseases Is Caused By Sexual Activity And Promiscuity It Spreads Diseases. That's Been Known, You Know, About 400 Or 500 Years, That Somehow These Diseases Are Spread. If Fault Comes With People Because Of Their Personal Behavior But It Isn't To Be Placed On A Burden On Other People, Innocent People, Why Should They Have To Pay For The Consequences?

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I Would Say That I'm Pretty Mainstream.

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Social Pressure

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I Am Convinced That There Are More Threats To American Liberty Within The 10-mile Radius Of My Office On Capitol Hill Than There Are On The Rest Of The Globe.

In The American Political Lexicon, 'change' Always Means More Of The Same: More Government, More Looting Of Americans, More Inflation, More Police-state Measures, More Unnecessary War, And More Centralization Of Power.

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Mr. Speaker, I Once Again Find Myself Compelled To Vote Against The Annual Budget Resolution For A Very Simple Reason: It Makes Government Bigger.

Cliches About Supporting The Troops Are Designed To Distract From Failed Policies, Policies Promoted By Powerful Special Interests That Benefit From War, Anything To Steer The Discussion Away From The Real Reasons The War In Iraq Will Not End Anytime Soon.

Get Rid Of Irs; Get Rid Of Income Tax; Get Rid Of Spending.

There Is No Reason, In A Free Society, That Farmers Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Raise Hemp. Hemp Is A Good Product.

Your Money Has Never Been Safe In The Government's Hands, And It Never Will Be. Governments Spend Money; It's Just Their Nature.

It Is Not Democracy To Send In Billions Of Dollars To Push Regime Change Overseas. It Isn't Democracy To Send In The Ngos To Re-write Laws And The Constitution In Places Like Ukraine. It Is None Of Our Business.

Another Term For Preventive War Is Aggressive War - Starting Wars Because Someday Somebody Might Do Something To Us. That Is Not Part Of The American Tradition.

Close Dept. Of Education, But Don't Dismantle Public Schools.

The Catch-all Phrase "the War On Terrorism", In All Honesty, Has No More Meaning Than If One Wants To Wage A War Against "criminal Gangsterism". Terrorism Is A Tactic. You Can't Have A War Against A Tactic. It's Deliberately Vague And Non-definable In Order To Justify And Permit Perpetual War Anywhere And Under Any Circumstance.

Remember, Politicians Get Votes By Promising Everything To Everyone, Always At The Expense Of Some Other Invisible Taxpayers.

I Will Always Vote What I Have Promised, And Always Vote The Constitution, As Well As I Will Not Vote For One Single Penny That Isn't Paid For, Because Debt Is The Monster, Debt Is What's Going To Eat Us Up And That Is Why Our Economy Is On The Brink.

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Political Opinions

The Reality Is That Our Military Presence On Foreign Soil Is As Offensive To The People That Live There As Armed Chinese Troops Would Be If They Were Stationed In Texas. We Would Not Stand For It Here, But We Have Had A Globe-straddling Empire And A Very Intrusive Foreign Policy For Decades That Incites A Lot Of Hatred And Resentment Toward Us.

When People Become Frightened, They Look For Things Of Real Value. They Will Go To Monetary Metals, Gold And Silver, And They Will Buy Other Things, Such As Buying Property. But No Matter What We Have, Whether We Have Our Gold Coins Or We Have Our Property, If We Have An Authoritarian Government, That Is Our Greatest Threat. So, I Would Like To Think That There Is No Perfect Protection, Other Than Shrinking The Size And Scope And Power Of Government, So That We Can Be Left Alone And Take Care Of Ourselves.

You Don't Quit Because You Happen To Be Behind. You Want To See How You Do. And Who Knows? Maybe Somebody Will Stumble.

Freedom Is Living Without Government Coercion. So When A Politician Talks About Freedom For This Group Or That, Ask Yourself Whether He Is Advocating More Government Action Or Less.

The True Patriot Is Motivated By A Sense Of Responsibility And Out Of Self-interest For Himself, His Family, And The Future Of His Country To Resist Government Abuse Of Power. He Rejects The Notion That Patriotism Means Obedience To The State.

The Most Sinister Of All Taxes Is The Inflation Tax And It Is The Most Regressive. It Hits The Poor And The Middle Class. When You Destroy A Currency By Creating Money Out Of Thin Air To Pay The Bills, The Value Of The Dollar Goes Down, And People Get Hit With A Higher Cost Of Living. It's The Middle Class That's Being Wiped Out. It Is Most Evil Of All Taxes.

White Castle Has A Unique Position In The Midwest. It Is A Cult Brand That Has Developed A Strong, Loyal Following.

I Had The Privilege Of Practicing Medicine In The Early '60s, Before We Had Any Government. It Worked Rather Well, And There Was Nobody On The Street Suffering With No Medical Care.

I Never Voted To Spend One Penny Of Social Security Money.

The Only Thing We Should Prohibit Is Violence.

As Long As We Live Beyond Our Means, We Are Destined To Live Beneath Our Means.

Real Patriotism Is A Willingness To Challenge The Government When It's Wrong.

There Was A Time When A Willingness To Criticize One's Own Government When It Was Wrong Was The Very Definition Of Patriotism.

It's Not Like I'm Just Trying To Win And Get Elected. I'm Trying To Change The Course Of History.

Trying To Change

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Political Opinions

Strictly Speaking, It Probably Is Not “necessary” For The Federal Government To Tax Anyone Directly; It Could Simply Print The Money It Needs. However, That Would Be Too Bold A Stroke, For It Would Then Be Obvious To All What Kind Of Counterfeiting Operation The Government Is Running. The Present System Combining Taxation And Inflation Is Akin To Watering The Milk; Too Much Water And The People Catch On.

For Those Who Have Asked, I Freely Confess That Jesus Christ Is My Personal Savior, And That I Seek His Guidance In All That I Do.

War Is Never Economically Beneficial Except For Those In Position To Profit From War Expenditures.

Washington Bureaucrats Have Classified The Very Air We Exhale As A Pollutant And Have Gone Unchallenged In This Incredible Assertion. The Logical Consequence Is That There Will Come A Time When We Will Have To Buy A Government Permit Just To Emit Carbon Dioxide Into The Atmosphere From Our Own Lungs!

Al-awlaki Was Born Here, He Is An American Citizen. He Was Never Tried Or Charged For Any Crimes. No One Knows If He Killed Anybody. We Know He Might Have Been Associated With The Underwear Bomber. But If The American People Accept This Blindly And Casually That We Now Have An Accepted Practice Of The President Assassinating People Who He Thinks Are Bad Guys, I Think It's Sad.

The Most Basic Principle To Being A Free American Is The Notion That We As Individuals Are Responsible For Our Own Lives And Decisions. We Do Not Have The Right To Rob Our Neighbors To Make Up For Our Mistakes, Neither Does Our Neighbor Have Any Right To Tell Us How To Live, So Long As We Aren’t Infringing On Their Rights. Freedom To Make Bad Decisions Is Inherent In The Freedom To Make Good Ones. If We Are Only Free To Make Good Decisions, We Are Not Really Free.

If You Ever Can Bring About Revolutionary Changes, Two Things Would Be Required: Young People Would Have To Be Involved And You Would Need Music.

If You Can’t Protect Life, Then How Can You Protect Liberty?

Without Question, The True Goal Of Some In Congress Is To Create A System Of Socialized Medicine. It's Politically Expedient To Slap A "patients’ Rights" Label On Legislation That Simply Leads Us Closer To A Complete Government Takeover Of Medicine.

Each Of Us Should Choose Which Course Of Action We Must Take; Education, Conventional Political Action, Or Even Peaceful Civil Disobedience To Bring About Necessary Changes, But Let It Not Be Said That We Did Nothing.

Necessary Change

The Boston Bombing Provided The Opportunity For The Government To Turn What Should Have Been A Police Investigation Into A Military-style Occupation Of An American City. This Unprecedented Move Should Frighten Us As Much Or More Than The Attack Itself.

America's Heart And Soul Is More Embedded In Our Love Of Liberty, Self-reliance, And Tolerance Than By Our Foreign Policy, Driven By Powerful Special Interests With Little Regard For The Constitution.

Back A Hundred Years Ago, Especially Around Woodrow Wilson, What Happened In This Country Is We Took Freedom And We Chopped It Into Pieces.

The Original American Patriots Were Those Individuals Brave Enough To Resist With Force The Oppressive Power Of King George... Patriotism Is More Closely Linked To Dissent Than It Is To Conformity And A Blind Desire For Safety And Security.

The Federal Reserve And Congress Have Systematically Taught The American People To Trust The Government And That Caution In Spending Is Harmful To The Economy.

America Was Founded By Men Who Understood That The Threat Of Domestic Tyranny Is As Great As Any Threat From Abroad. If We Want To Be Worthy Of Their Legacy, We Must Resist The Rush Toward Ever-increasing State Control Of Our Society. Otherwise, Our Own Government Will Become A Greater Threat To Our Freedoms Than Any Foreign Terrorist.

It Is A Dangerous Notion That We Need A Government To Protect Us From Ourselves.

No Matter What Politicians Promise, Social Security Reform Will Not Change The Fact That Your Money Is Taken From Your Paycheck And Sent To Washington, Where It Will Be Spent.

Secession Is A Deeply American Principle. This Country Was Born Through Secession.

We Must Educate Ourselves And Others About Our Precious Civil Liberties To Ensure That We Never Accept Demands That We Give Up Our Constitution So That The Government Can Pretend To Protect Us.

Both Sides Of The Political Spectrum Must One Day Realize That Limitless Government Intrusion In The Economy, In Our Personal Lives, And In The Affairs Of Other Nations Cannot Serve The Best Interests Of America.

But Let It Not Be Said That We Did Nothing. Let Not Those Who Love The Power Of The Welfare/warfare State Label The Dissenters Of Authoritarianism As Unpatriotic Or Uncaring. Patriotism Is More Closely Linked To Dissent Than It Is To Conformity And A Blind Desire For Safety And Security. Understanding The Magnificent Rewards Of A Free Society Makes Us Unbashful In Its Promotion, Fully Realizing That Maximum Wealth Is Created And The Greatest Chance For Peace Comes From A Society Respectful Of Individual Liberty.

When The Goal Of Political Action Is No Longer The Defense Of Liberty, No Word Other Than Demagoguery Can Describe The Despicable Nature Of Politics.

Liberty Is Lost Through Complacency And A Subservient Mindset. When We Accept Or Even Welcome Automobile Checkpoints, Random Searches, Mandatory Identification Cards, And Paramilitary Police In Our Streets, We Have Lost A Vital Part Of Our American Heritage. America Was Born Of Protest, Revolution, And Mistrust Of Government. Subservient Societies Neither Maintain Nor Deserve Freedom For Long.

Demanding Domestic Security In Times Of War Invites Carelessness In Preserving Civil Liberties And The Right Of Privacy. Frequently The People Are Only Too Anxious For Their Freedoms To Be Sacrificed On The Altar Of Authoritarianism Thought To Be Necessary To Remain Safe And Secure.

There's Been A Coup, Have You Heard? It's The Cia Coup. The Cia Runs Everything, They Run The Military. They're The Ones Who Are Over There Lobbing Missiles And Bombs On Countries. ... And Of Course The Cia Is Every Bit As Secretive As The Federal Reserve. ... And Yet Think Of The Harm They Have Done Since They Were Established [after] World War Ii. They Are A Government Unto Themselves. They're In Businesses, In Drug Businesses, They Take Out Dictators ... We Need To Take Out The Cia.

You Have To Remember, Rights Don't Come In Groups We Shouldn't Have 'gay Rights'; Rights Come As Individuals, And We Wouldn't Have This Major Debate Going On. It Would Be Behavior That Would Count, Not What Person Belongs To What Group.

I'm All For Raw Milk. I Think You Should Make Your Own Choice On Whether You Drink Raw Milk Or Not.

It Is Incumbent On A Great Nation To Remain Confident, If It Wishes To Remain Free. We Need Not Be Ignorant To Real Threats To Our Safety, Against Which We Must Remain Vigilant. We Need Only To Banish To The Ash Heap Of History The Notion That We Ought To Be Ruled By Our Fears And Those Who Use Them To Enhance Their Own Power.

Big Government Flourishes Under Republicans.

Speak Up, Speak Often And Don’t Worry About Those That At This Point Cannot Understand As They Can Never Un-hear What We Tell Them.

Liberty Has Meaning Only If We Still Believe In It When Terrible Things Happen And A False Government Security Blanket Beckons.

Jury Verdicts, Basketball Games, And Even Music Are Enough To Set Off Black Rage, It Seems.

Our Forefathers Would Think It's Time For A Revolution. This Is Why They Revolted In The First Place... They Revolted Against Much More Mild Oppression.

I Would Like To Restore Your Right To Drink Raw Milk Anytime You Like.

The Concept Of Equal Pay For Equal Work Is Not Only An Impossible Task, It Can Only Be Accomplished With The Total Rejection Of The Idea Of The Voluntary Contract... The Idea That A Businessman Must Hire Anyone And Is Prevented From Firing Anyone For Any Reason He Chooses, And In The Name Of Rights, Is A Clear Indication That The Basic Concept Of A Free Society Has Been Lost.

When We Finally Decide That Drug Prohibition Has Been No More Successful Than Alcohol Prohibition, The Drug Dealers Will Disappear.

They've Been Taught By Too Many That This War Was Necessary When It Isn't.

Believe Me, The Next Step Is A Currency Crisis Because There Will Be A Rejection Of The Dollar, The Rejection Of The Dollar Is A Big, Big Event, And Then Your Personal Liberties Are Going To Be Severely Threatened.

No Single Person, Including The President Of The United States, Should Ever Be Given The Power To Make A Medical Decision For Potentially Millions Of Americans. Freedom Over One's Physical Person Is The Most Basic Freedom Of All, And People In A Free Society Should Be Sovereign Over Their Own Bodies. When We Give Government The Power To Make Medical Decisions For Us, We In Essence Accept That The State Owns Our Bodies.

Every Country Ended Slavery Without Civil War; Us Could Have.

Spain Has Been Massively Diverting Capital From The Private Sector Into Politically Favored Environmental Projects For The Better Part Of A Decade...every Green Job Created, Eliminated 2.2 Real Jobs And Cost Around $800,000 Each!

First Reason Is, It's Not Authorized In The Constitution, It's An Illegal Institution. The Second Reason, It's An Immoral Institution, Because We Have Delivered To A Secretive Body The Privilege Of Creating Money Out Of Thin Air; If You Or I Did It, We'd Be Called Counterfeiters, So Why Have We Legalized Counterfeiting? But The Economic Reasons Are Overwhelming: The Federal Reserve Is The Creature That Destroys Value.

I Am Absolutely Opposed To A National Id Card. This Is A Total Contradiction Of What A Free Society Is All About. The Purpose Of Government Is To Protect The Secrecy And The Privacy Of All Individuals, Not The Secrecy Of Government. We Don't Need A National Id Card.

...[the Federal] Government [has No Authority] To Deliver A Service,...and There's No Evidence To Show That Government Has Ever Been Efficient [at] Delivering...service.

We Need To Surrender Our Attachments To Government In Every Aspect Of Life. We Need To Give Up Our Dependencies On The State, Materially And Spiritually. We Should Not Look To The State To Provide Us Financially Or Psychologically. Let Us Give Up Our Longing For Welfare, Our Love Of War, And Our Desire To See The Government Control And Shape Our Fellow Citizens.

I'm Not Against The Fbi Investigation In Doing A Proper Role, But I'm Against The Fbi Spying On People Like Martin Luther King. I'm Against The Cia Fighting Secret Wars And Overthrowing Government.

Let The Revolution Begin.

We Need To Make Sure That People Can Save All The Money They Spend On Medical Care By Getting It Back From Their Taxes, By Reducing Their Tax Burden.

We Have To Restore Confidence That The Marketplace Can Deliver Services As Well As It Can Goods.

Outsourcing Is A Reflection Of A Bad Economic Environment Domestically. If You Fix That, You Fix Outsourcing. Our Primary Export Is Paper Money, And That Should Change If You Change The Monetary Policy.

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