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The Iranians Have A Lousy Government, So Therefore Their Economy Is Lousy, Even Though They Have Significant Oil Revenues. So I Am Convinced That Together, We Can, With The French, With The British, With The Germans And Other Countries, Democracies Around The World, We Can Affect Iranian Behavior. But Have No Doubt, But Have No Doubt That The Iranians Continue On The Path To The Acquisition Of A Nuclear Weapon. And It Is A Threat Not Only In This Region But Around The World.

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The Iranians Have A Lousy Government, So Therefore Their Economy Is Lousy, Even Though They Have Significant Oil Revenues. So I Am Convinced That Together, We Can, With The French, With The British, With The Germans And Other Countries, Democracies Around The World, We Can Affect Iranian Behavior. But Have No Doubt, But Have No Doubt That The Iranians Continue On The Path To The Acquisition Of A Nuclear Weapon. And It Is A Threat Not Only In This Region But Around The World.

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The Question Is Not Whether You Would Like To Be President Or Not. The Question Is: Do You Think You Can Win And Do You Want To Run? And None Of Those Are Clear To Me.

I've Already Heard From Some Military Commanders Who Feel They've Been Undercut By The Vice President Of The United States, And There's A Lot Of Justification For Their View.

I Wrestled And Played Football In High School And In My Last Year, I Started As A Wrestler And Actually Had A Fairly Good Record. But I Hated To Lose. I Always Gave It Everything I Had Which, Unfortunately, Was Not As Much As I'd Hoped For. But Keep In Mind, I Feel Like I Got The Most Out Of My Ability. One Moment That Was Special Above All The Rest Was Winning My Last Bout At The Naval Academy To Finish The Entire Summer Undefeated. That Was Thrilling, But What's More, It Helped Me In Prison Because The First Time I Got Knocked Around By The Vietnamese, It Did Not Come As A Total Shock.

Today More People Lose Their Seats In The Politburo In Havana Than In The Congress Of America, ... We Need To Have Competitive Races For The Legislature. ... We Have To Have A Clash Of Ideas.

The Benefit Of An Open Town Hall Meeting Is One That You Get To Hear A Lot Of Different Views, And Two It Has Credibility.

I Will Not Leave The Republican Party, ... The Republican Party Is My Home.

The Abuse Of Prisoners Hurts America's Cause In The War On Terror, Endangers Us Service Members Who Might Be Captured By The Enemy, And Is Anathema To The Values Americans Have Held Dear For Generations.

He Was A Superb Military Officer But He Was Also An Extraordinarily Gifted Politician. That He Was An Unusually Open, Honest And No-nonsense Politician Did Not Make Him Unsuited For The Profession, Only Uncommon. In Uniform And In Politics Barry's Purpose Was Always The Defense Of Freedom. And Nobody Before Or Since Managed The Task More Ably Or More Colorfully Than Barry Goldwater.

I'm A Proud Reagan Conservative.

The Facts Are Facts And Records Are Records.

Our Economy, I Think, Is Still -- The Fundamentals Of Our Economy Are Strong.

Americans Want To Win; Bin Laden Thinks He's Winning Now.

There Is No Moral Equivalent Between That Butcher And Thug And Kgb Colonel Vladimir Putin And The United States Of America, The Country That Ronald Reagan Used To Call A Shining City On A Hill.

Vladimir Putin Is A War Criminal.

The Iranians Have A Lousy Government, So Therefore Their Economy Is Lousy, Even Though They Have Significant Oil Revenues. So I Am Convinced That Together, We Can, With The French, With The British, With The Germans And Other Countries, Democracies Around The World, We Can Affect Iranian Behavior. But Have No Doubt, But Have No Doubt That The Iranians Continue On The Path To The Acquisition Of A Nuclear Weapon. And It Is A Threat Not Only In This Region But Around The World.

There's One Big Difference Between Me And The Others - I Won't Take Every Last Dime Of The Surplus And Spend It On Tax Cuts That Mostly Benefit The Wealthy. I'll Use The Bulk Of The Surplus To Secure Social Security Far Into The Future To Keep Our Promise To The Greatest Generation.

Round Up And Deport Two Million Aliens Who Committed Crimes.

We Are Americans First, Americans Last, Americans Always... Let Us Argue Our Differences. But Remember We Are Not Enemies, But Comrades In A War Against A Real Enemy...

Congress And The American People Have Good Reason To Fear That We Are Heading Toward Another Permanent Garrison Of Americans In A Balkan Country Where Our Mission Is Confused, And Our Exit Strategy A Complete Mystery.

This Is The Free Enterprise System. The Only Place In The World That I Can Recall Where Companies Never Failed Was The Old Soviet Union. This Is What Investors Do In Free Enterprise And Capitalism System. [...[ And, Yes, Free Enterprise System Can Be Cruel. But The Problem With This Administration Is That Small Businesses Are The One Who Had Suffered The Most, The Kind That Need Investors, The Kinds That Don't Need The Hundreds Of Pages, Thousands Of Pages Of Regulations That Continue To Plague Them And Have Them Hold Back On The Hiring Investment.

Torture Gives You Reliable And Unreliable Information. That's The Reason Why Most People In The World Don't Do It. So This Idea That You Have To Torture People In Order To Protect National Security Is A False Argument, And I Reject It.

I, 100 Percent Don't Think That's Where The American People At, Because When There's Viral Pictures As A Baby Is In Aleppo With, You Know, Rubble All Over Them Going Viral, And Then There Are Celebrities Tweeting Why Haven't We Done Nothing About This? And Like, Oh, There Are Actually Many People For Years Who've Been Trying To Send Aid Then And This President Won't Let Us.

I Observed A Thousand Acts Of Courage, Compassion And Love [as A Pow] And I Will Always Treasure That Memory Above All Others.

I Think That It Has To Be A Very Humane Approach To This Issue, And We Have To Come Up With Solutions To It. But We Also Have To Do Something About The Drugs That Are Coming Across Our Southern Border That Are Killing Our Kids... I Think There Are Some People Who Want To Leave This Country And Return To The Country They Came From, But Obviously It Requires A Broader Solution That That, And We All Know That.

There's A Misnomer That Hillary Clinton Is As Hawkish As I Am, Basically.

It's Always The Wacko Birds On Right And Left That Get The Media Megaphone.

Don't Let Anyone Tell You Otherwise - Not Our Political Opponents, And Certainly Not A Disingenuous Filmmaker, Who Would Have Us Believe.

Russia Is A Gas Station Masquerading As A Country. It's Kleptocracy, It's Corruption, It's A Nation That's Really Only Dependent Upon Oil And Gas For Their Economy.

On My Honor, I Swear To You, That From My First Day In Office To The Last Breath I Draw, I Will Do Everything In My Power To Make You Proud Of Your Government.

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