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The Idea That The United States Can't Guard Its Own Border Is Silly. It's A Sign That Were Not Serious About This...people Who Legally Shouldn't Be Here. When The State Is Forced To Take Care Of Them - For Example, If They Have An Illegal Alien In Their Prison - The Federal Government Should Pay For It. If Washington Has To Pay For It, Washington's Going To More Rapidly Understand Why We Have To Take Some Necessary Steps.

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The Idea That The United States Can't Guard Its Own Border Is Silly. It's A Sign That Were Not Serious About This...people Who Legally Shouldn't Be Here. When The State Is Forced To Take Care Of Them - For Example, If They Have An Illegal Alien In Their Prison - The Federal Government Should Pay For It. If Washington Has To Pay For It, Washington's Going To More Rapidly Understand Why We Have To Take Some Necessary Steps.

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Centralized Health Dictatorship.

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Indicate Which Principles You Support Regarding Affirmative Action And Discrimination. 1. The Federal Government Should Discontinue Affirmative Action Programs. 2. The Federal Government Should Prosecute Cases Of Discrimination In The Public Sector. 3. The Federal Government Should Prosecute Cases Of Discrimination In The Private Sector.

If You Want To See Why President Obama Is Worried This November, Watch The Hope And The Change.

I Think Donald Trump Needs To Set A Direction That Allows People Who Are Deeply Opposed To Obamacare To Realize It's Gradually Going To Be Reformed And Rethought.

As A Citizen, I Would Rather Have A President Mccain That We Fight With 20% Of The Time, Than A President Clinton Or A President Obama That We Fight With 90% Of The Time.

You Know, You Try To Move The Brussels Bureaucracy, And Unless You Have Some Capacity To Really Break It, You Can't Move It. It Just Sits There And Stares At You.

There Should Be No Mosque Near Ground Zero In New York So Long As There Are No Churches Or Synagogues In Saudi Arabia.

Opposing Taxes Is A Key Conservative Value.

Oh, He Was Asking To Have An Open Marriage And I Refused.

You Cannot Compare America And Russia.

Somebody Ought To Have The Courage To Tell The Truth. These People Are Terrorists.

Telling The Truth

You Know, Presidents Have To Be Disciplined, And In That Sense Hillary Clinton Is Probably Better Trained To Be President, Just Because She's The Most Corrupt Person To Ever Get The Nomination Of A Major Party.

If You Have Depression, You Are Dramatically More Likely To Be Sick. Now To Say You Don't Need To Treat Depression Because It's Not A Medical Reality - When In Fact It Clearly Affects Your Interaction With The Entire World Around You - Is Just Frankly Reactionary.

We're Not Going To Beat Barack Obama With Some Guy Who Has Swiss Bank Accounts, Cayman Island Accounts, Owns Shares Of Goldman Sachs While It Forecloses On Florida And Is Himself A Stockholder In Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac While He Tries To Think The Rest Of Us Are Too Stupid To Put The Dots Together To Understand What This Is All About.... People Matter More Than Wall Street.

The Congress Is Pretty Powerful If It Wants To Be.

So When People Tell You, Oh, You Can't Have The Ten Commandments On Public Property, They're Just Wrong. It's Historically False. It's Not True. Now, You Can Decide To Invent A New America In Which You Shouldn't Say "one Nation Under God" As Part Of The Pledge Because, After All, You Will Offend Three Atheists. But That's Not The America You Inherited. That's A Different Country. And I Think It's A Weaker Country And I Think It's A Country That Has No Roots In Terms Of Where Its Rights Come From.

I Will Focus On Being Substantive And I Will Focus On Barack Obama.

I'm Willing To Go Through A Full Body Scan Or Anything Else You Need To. What I Am Offended By Is The Absolute Unwillingness Of Obama's Administration. Callista And I Did A Movie Called "america At Risk: The War With No Name," Where We Outlined - Who Are The People Who've Been Terrorists In The Last Three Or Four Years? They're All Males. They're All Young. They're All Fairly Identifiable In Other Ways. So We're Going To A Point - We're Going To Have A Full Body Scan Of An 83-year-old Nun From Des Moines Because We Don't Want To Be Honest About Who Our Enemies Are?

Now You Have To Ask A Question - Is That Really, Is Capitalism Really About The Ability Of A Handful Of Rich People To Manipulate The Lives Of Thousands Of Other People And Walk Off With The Money? Or Is That In Fact Somehow A Little Bit Of A Flawed System? And So I Do Draw Distinction Between Looting A Company, Leaving Behind Broken Families And Broken Neighborhoods And Then Leaving A Factory That Should Be There.

If Combat Means Living In A Ditch, Females Have Biological Problems Staying In A Ditch For 30 Days Because They Get Infections... Males Are Biologically Driven To Go Out And Hunt Giraffes.

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