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The One Way, Possibly, Out Of This Is For [bashar] Assad To Abdicate And Plead, Perhaps To Russia Or Somewhere Else. Would Save Another Wave Of Civilian Casualties If We Could Get Him To Abdicate.

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The One Way, Possibly, Out Of This Is For [bashar] Assad To Abdicate And Plead, Perhaps To Russia Or Somewhere Else. Would Save Another Wave Of Civilian Casualties If We Could Get Him To Abdicate.

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African American

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Institutional Racism

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African American

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I Think This Sets A Very Bad Precedent, The President Unilaterally On His Own Starting War Without Any Consent From Congress.

I Think You'll Find That These Are Measures That Have Great Bipartisan Support, And So I Expect, Not Only Did We Do Well In The Primary, I Think We'll Win By A Wide Margin In The Fall Because We're Going To Get A Lot Of Independents And Conservative Democrats Coming To Us.

I Think Republicans Will Not Win Again In My Lifetime ... Unless They Become A New Gop, A New Republican Party. And It Has To Be A Transformation. Not A Little Tweaking At The Edges.

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 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.

I Think When We Think About The Judgment Of Someone Who Might Want World War Iii, We Might Think About Someone Who Might Shut Down A Bridge Because They Don't Like Their Friends.

I Think [donald Trump] Has To Do Everything He Can To Set Up A Firewall Between Him And His Businesses. But I Think It's Unrealistic For People To Be Saying, Oh, He Should Just Sell All Of His Businesses.

I Will Continue To Fight For Legislation That Forces Congress To Read The Bills! I Will Fight For A Vote On My Bill That Calls For A Waiting Period For Each Page Of Legislation. I Will Continue To Object When Congress Sticks Special Interest Riders On Bills In The Dead Of Night! And If Congress Refuses To Obey Its Own Rules, If Congress Refuses To Pass A Budget, If Congress Refuses To Read The Bills, Then I Say: Sweep The Place Clean. Limit Their Terms And Send Them Home!

I Will Not Let The Patriot Act, The Most Un-patriotic Of Acts, Go Unchallenged.

The Most Important Thing You Will Do Is Yet To Be Seen. For Me, I Found My Important Thing To Do When I Learned To Do Surgery On The Eye, When I Learned To Restore A Person's Vision.

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.

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

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.

Actually We're Very Lucky John Mccain Is Not In Charge Because I Think We Would Be In Perpetual War.

The Idea Of Foreign Policy Realism, I Think, Fits More Neatly With President Trump. And With John Mccain, The Neoconservative Label Of Let's Make The World Safe For Democracy And We're Going To Topple Every Regime Hasn't Worked.

I Think If We Want To Defeat Terrorism, I Think If We Truly Are Sincere About Defeating Terrorism, We Need To Quit Arming The Allies Of Isis. If We Want To Defeat Terrorism, The Boots On The Ground - The Boots On The Ground Need To Be Arab Boots On The Ground.

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.

We Have To Decide Whether Our Fear Is Going To Get The Better Of Us. Once Upon A Time We Had A Standard In Our Country That Was 'innocent Until Proven Guilty.' We've Given Up On So Much. Now, People Are Talking About A Standard That Is 'if You Have Nothing To Hide, You Have Nothing To Fear.' Think About It. Is That The Standard We're Willing To Live Under?

The Republican Platform Specifically Says We Don't Believe In Bailing Out Private Business, And Yet We Did.

I Want To Collect More Records From Terrorists, But Less Records From Innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment Was What We Fought The Revolution Over! John Adams Said It Was The Spark That Led To Our War For Independence, And I'm Proud Of Standing For The Bill Of Rights, And I Will Continue To Stand For The Bill Of Rights.

We All Either Work For Rich People Or We Sell Stuff To Rich People, So Just Punishing Rich People Is As Bad For The Economy As Punishing Anyone. Let's Not Punish Anyone.

To Understand How Republicans Lost The African American Vote, We Must First Understand How We Won The African American Vote.

African American

In A Free Society We Will Tolerate Boorish People, Who Have Abhorrent Behavior, But If We're Civilized People We Publicly Criticize That And Don't Belong To Those Groups Or Associate With Those People.

I Think The Vast Majority Of The American People Say You Shouldn't Be Able To Collect My Phone Records If I'm Not Suspicious, If You Don't Have Probable Cause.

I Think That If You Believe In Regime Change, You're Mistaken. In 2013, We Put 600 Tons Of Weapons - Us, Saudi Arabia, And Qatar - Into The War Against [bashar] Assad. By Pushing Assad Back, We Did Create A Safe Space.

[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.

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