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The Question Is, How Do We Keep America Safe From Terrorism? [donald]trump Says We Ought To Close That Internet Thing. The Question Really Is, What Does He Mean By That? Like They Do In North Korea? Like They Do In China?

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The Question Is, How Do We Keep America Safe From Terrorism? [donald]trump Says We Ought To Close That Internet Thing. The Question Really Is, What Does He Mean By That? Like They Do In North Korea? Like They Do In China?

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My Great Grandfather, Like Many, Came To This Country In Search Of The American Dream.

[john] Bolton Is So Far Out There, He`s Advocating Bombing Everyone In The World.

The Only Way To Save Social Security Is To Raise The Retirement Age.

My Worry Now Is That Many People Are Talking About A Partial Repeal Of Obamacare. If You Only Repeal Part Of It And You Leave If Some Sort Of Obamacare Light, Which Some Are Talking About, My Fear Is The Situation Actually Gets Worse.

I'll Do Anything To Try To Prevent John Bolton From Getting Any Position, Because I Think His World View Is Naive. He Believes We're Going To Spread Democracy. We're Going To Topple Governments Everywhere And They're Going To Elect Thomas Jefferson. That's Not The Way It Works In The Middle East.

When I Asked The President [barack Obama], Can You Kill An American On American Soil, It Should Have Been An Easy Answer. It's An Easy Question. It Should Have Been A Resounding And Unequivocal No. The President's Response, He Hasn't Killed Anyone Yet.

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

The Gop Of Old Has Grown Stale And Moss-covered. I Don't Think We Need To Name Any Names, Do We? Our Party Is Encumbered By An Inconsistent Approach To Freedom. The New Gop Will Need To Embrace Liberty In Both The Economic And The Personal Sphere.

Let's Make The Haystack Smaller. Let's Say For A While, Until We Can Figure Out Who's Coming, Who's Going, And Who's Overstayed Their Visa, Let's Have Extra Scrutiny And Figure Out What's Going On, Because There's A Whole Segment Of The World That Is Intent On Sending People Here To Attack Us.

If There Are Few Conservatives In The Senate Wing Of The Republican Party That Will Say No To A Budget That Never Balances, We Could Have The Power To Say To The Leadership, You Know What, Need A Better Budget.

If Our Freedom Is Taken, The American Dream Will Wither And Die.

I've Had An Interest In Politics Since I Was A Little Kid.

For Example, The Use Of Chemical Weapons [in Syria]- Some On The Democrat Side Have Said Well, This Encourages The North Koreans To Use Chemical Weapons Against Our Troops.

It Is Impossible For African-americans Not To Feel Like Their Government Is Particularly Targeting Them.

African American

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

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.

I Think If Russia Is Really An Honest Signatory To The Chemical Weapons Ban, If Syria Wants To Be, Ultimately Someone Has To Be Responsible For Killing Civilians. And That's The Hard Part Out Of This.

The President's Rattling The Saber And Beating The Drums May Have An Effect.

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.

The Question's Whether Or Not There's An American Interest In The Civil War [in Syria]. The Question Is Whether Or Not A Military Strike On [bashar] Assad Will Cause Him To Be Encouraged To Use More Weapons Or Discouraged. It's Easy Enough To Say - And The President [barack Obama] Says Though This Will Teach Him A Lesson - But His Military Strike Is Intended Not To Target Him Individually, Not To Bring About Regime Change.

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.

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.

You Don't Go Into Politics Unless You Want To Win.

I Think We Can All Agree [bashar] Assad Is A Bad And Evil Actor, But I'm Not So Sure That We Want The Islamic Rebels To Be In Charge Of Syria Either.

I Do Believe People Ought To Be Left Alone. I Don't Care Who You Are Or What You Do At Home Or Who Your Friends Are Or Where You Hang Out, What Kind Of Music You Listen To, What You Do In Your Home Is Your Own Business. That's Always Been Who I Am. I Am A Leave Me Alone Kind Of Guy.

If I Have A Weakness, It's That I Try To Live By The Rules. I Try To Live By The Rules, No Matter What They Are, And I Was Brought Up That Way As A Kid. Play By The Rules.

In Our State, I'm Really Proud Of The Fact That The Ones Who Overturned Jim Crow In Kentucky Were Republicans Fighting Against An Entirely Unified Democrat Party. So I Am Proud To Be Republican. I Can't Imagine Being Anything Else.

On The Gang Of Eight Bill, There Was No Provisions Really For Extra Scrutiny Or Safety For Refugees. At The Time The Bill Came Up, Two Iraqi Refugees Came To My Home Town, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Their Fingerprints Were On A Bomb From Iraq. They Were In The Database, But We Didn't Pick Them Up.

We Have To Have A More Realistic Foreign Policy And Not A Utopian One Where We Say, Oh, We're Going To Spread Freedom And Democracy, And Everybody In The Middle East Is Going To Love Us. They Are Not Going To Love Us.

I Think That, Most Importantly, When I See Issues Of War, I See Them In A Personal Vein, And I Am Reluctant To Go To War Unless There's A Real, Valid American Interest Because I've Seen The Wounded Soldiers.

I Think We Need To Treat Everybody With Dignity.

I Am Pleased Though That There's A Possibility Of A Diplomatic Solution [in Syria]. I Remain Somewhat Skeptical, But I Am Pleased That It's A Possibility And I Think People Like Myself Who've Been Arguing For Delaying This Bombing, Have Allowed This Diplomatic Possibility To Occur.

Al Qaeda Has Been Placed On The Run, But Not Destroyed.

If You Hear Me Out, I Believe You'll Discover That What Motivates Me More Than Any Other Issue Is The Defense Of Everyone's Rights.

I Don't Think I've Ever Used The Word 'gay Rights,' Because I Don't Really Believe In Rights Based On Your Behavior.

You Can't Have It Both Ways. You Can't Tell Me That You're Taxed Enough Already, And That You Want Constitutional Government And Then In The Next Breath Say, 'bring Me Home Some Bacon.' The Pig Has Been Picked Clean.

If You Are Going To Kill The Families Of Terrorists, Realize That There's Something Called The Geneva Convention We're Going To Have To Pull Out Of. It Would Defy Every Norm That Is America.

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.

America Does Not Need To Continue To Have Regime Change Throughout The World, Nation-building.

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?

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

The Problem Or The Fundamental Flaw Of Obamacare Was That They Put Regulations On The Insurance, About 12 Regulations, Which Increased The Cost Of The Insurance. And So President Obama Wanted To Help Poor, Working-class People, But He Actually Hurts Them By Making The Insurance Too Expensive To Want To Buy. I Had Someone At The House Just Recently Was Doing Some Work, And He Said: "oh, My Son Doesn't Have Insurance, He's Paying The Penalty Because It's Too Expensive."

Isil Is Not The Jv Team. I Cannot Stress Enough That There's A Terrorist Army In Syria And Iraq That Wants To Attack The Homeland And We're Not Doing Anything About It. So How Do You Defeat The Ideology? Build Up Others? You Reject Rand Paul.

Do We Fear Terrorism So Much That We Throw Out Our Constitution, And Are We Unwilling And Afraid To Debate Our Constitution?

No Republican Questions Or Disputes Civil Rights. I Have Never Wavered In My Support For Civil Rights Or The Civil Rights Act.

We Should Be Proud That So Many Want To Come To America, That It Is Still Seen As The Land Of Opportunity. Let's Make It A Land Of Legal Work, Not Black-market Jobs. Let's Make It A Land Of Work, Not Welfare. Our Land Should Be One Of Assimilation, Not Hiding In The Shadows.

Hiding In The Shadows

What My Bill Would Do Would Be Only For Refugees Going Forward. So I Haven't Taken A Position On Sending Anyone Home. But I Have Taken The Position That We Have A Lot Of Problems Here In Our Country. And That One Of The Things That We Do - Charity Is About Giving Your Own Money. Charity Isn't Giving Someone Else's Money.

If There Were An Ounce Of Courage In This Body I Would Be Joined By Other Senators… Saying They Will Not Tolerate This.

President Obama, I Think, Wanted What Was Best For The Country, But I Think It Didn't Work Well. I Think We Have The Death Spiral, And I Think Particularly Premiums In The Individual Market Are Going Through The Roof. Republicans Want What's Best For The Country, But I Think They're Not Fixing The Death Spiral Of Obamacare. They're Going To Subsidize It With A Lot Of Taxpayer Money. So, Characterizing Something As Mean Or Generous I Think Goes To People's Motives, And I Think It Is Sort Of Why We Have Such An Angry Country Now. We Think That People Have Ill Motives.

Our Legislative Victory - An End To Earmarks.

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.

Secretary [john] Kerry Has Called Civil War [in Syria] An Unbelievably Small War That We're Going To Get Involved With.

I Do Not Yet Know If I Will Find A Romney Presidency More Acceptable On Foreign Policy. But I Do Know That I Must Oppose The Most Recent Statements Made By Mitt Romney In Which He Says He, As President, Could Take Us To War Unilaterally With Iran, Without Any Approval From Congress.

Gun Control Is Not Part Of A Strategy To Defeat Radical Islam Or Take Isil Down. However It Is A Problem Back Here At Home. A Million People Have Been Adjudicated A Danger To Themselves Or To Others At The State Court Level.

We Need A Republican Party That Shows Up On The South Side Of Chicago And Shouts At The Top Of Our Lungs, 'we Are The Party Of Jobs And Opportunity! The Gop Is The Ticket To The Middle Class.

I Think It's A Huge Mistake. I Think Regime Change In Syria, And This Is What - I've Been Saying This For Several Years Now. In 2013 When We First Went In, I Said, You Are Going To Give Arms To The Allies Of Al Qaida, To Radical Jihadists? That's Crazy.

I Would Introduce And Support Legislation To Send Roe V. Wade Back To The States.

We Didn't Create Isis - Isis Created Themselves, But We Will Stop Them, And One Of The Ways We Stop Them Is By Not Funding Them, And Not Arming Them.

This Is An Ongoing Threat From A Variety Of Sources Around The World. And Actually I Think It Works Both Ways. I'm Not Privy To It, But I Think All Of The Various Country That Have The Ability Are Invading Each Other's Computers All The Time. But We Have To Protect Our Data. It's Very Important.

We Need To Get Insurance Out Of The Way And Let The Consumer Interact With Their Doctor The Way They Did Basically Before World War Ii.

I Don't Think It's So Much Trump Lobbing Us For Changes. It's Us Asking Him For Help In Getting The Changes Done. I Think Trump Has The Bully Pulpit. He Has A Great Deal Of Influence With The Republican Party On Both The House And The Senate Side. The Bill Right Now To The Conservative Point Of View Doesn't Have Enough Repeal. It Looks Like We're Keeping A Lot Of Obamacare. So We Actually Think That There Needs To Be More Repeal. That's The Message I Took To Trump.

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 Support Local Solutions To Illegal Immigration As Protected By The 10th Amendment. I Support Making English The Official Language Of All Documents And Contracts.

After Ensuring Border Security, I Then Would Normalize The Status Of 11 Million Undocumented Citizens So They Can Join The Work Force And Pay Taxes...i Would Normalize Them At A Rate Of About Two Million Per Year.

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.

Join Us In The Fight To Defeat The Washington Machine. It’s Fun And Easy To Get Started. You Can Make A Difference And Change The Direction Of Our Country! Join Today.

The President Wants More Tax Money In Washington. I Want More Money Left In The Communities, Particularly Poor Communities, Particularly Communities That Have High Unemployment.

There Comes A Time, There Comes A Time In The History Of Nations When Fear And Complacency Allow Power To Accumulate And Liberty And Privacy To Suffer. That Time Is Now And I Will Not Let The Patriot Act, The Most Unpatriotic Of Acts Go Unchallenged.

You Don't Win As A Party Unless You Become A Bigger Party.

You Don't Know Who The Next Group Is That's Unpopular. The Bill Of Rights Isn't For The Prom Queen. The Bill Of Rights Isn't For The High School Quarterback. The Bill Of Rights Is For The Least Among Us. The Bill Of Rights Is For Minorities. The Bill Of Rights Is For Those Who Have Minority Opinions.

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.

Let's Say Tomorrow That There Was A President, That We Elected A President That Eliminated The Bulk Collection Of Data. Let's Just Say It Happened. What Do You Think Would Happen? People Are Like 'the Sky Would Fall. We Would Be Overrun With Jihadists.' Maybe We Could Rely On The Constitution. Maybe We Could Get Warrants. ... If You Make The Warrant Specific, There's No Limit To What You Can Get Through A Warrant.

I'm The Leading Voice In America For Not Arming The Allies Of Isis.

The Gop Of Old Has Grown Old And Moss Covered.

The Greatest Threat To Our National Security Is Our Debt. We Borrow A Million Dollars A Minute.

[marco] Rubio Says We Should Collect All Americans' Records All Of The Time. The Constitution Says Otherwise. I Think They're Both Wrong. I Think We Defeat Terrorism By Showing Them That We Do Not Fear Them.

When The Government Tries To Invade The Church To Enforce Its Own Opinion On [gay] Marriage, That's When It's Time To Resist.

I'm Not In Favor Of Any Discrimination Of Any Form.

During The Great Depression African Americans Understood That Republicans Championed Citizenship And Voting Rights, But They Became Impatient For Economic Emancipation.

Right Now In The Insurance Markets, We Have Sort Of A Disaster Unfolding, A Downward Spiral, Adverse Selection, Premiums In The Individual Market Going Through The Roof. People Can't Afford Insurance And Insurance Companies Are Losing Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars. If You Repeal Part Of Obamacare To Get Rid Of The Individual Mandate But Keep Some Of The Ideas, That People Can Still Buy Insurance After They're Sick, The Situation Gets Extraordinarily Worse. And So What We're Seeing Now Could Be Tenfold Greater If You Only Repeal Part Of Obamacare.

If Someone Tries To Put Limits On The Press, I'll Be The First One Standing Up For The Right Of Press, Left And Right, To Continue Saying And Being Part Of The Discussion And Forwarding The Discussion.

If Congress Refuses To Obey Its Own Rules. If Congress Refuses To Pass A Balanced Budget. If Congress Refuses To Read The Bills. Then I Say, Sweep The Place Clean, Limit Their Terms, And Send Them Home!

Any Time You Make An Analogy To Horrific People In History, Mussolini Or Hitler, People Say, 'oh, You're Exaggerating, You're Talking About, It's Hyperbole.' Maybe It Is. ... But I Would Say Is That If You Are Not Concerned That Democracy Could Produce Bad People, I Don't Think You're Really Thinking This Through Too Much.

The Coarsening Of Our Culture Towards Violent Death Has More Consequences Than War. Tragically, This Same Culture Has Led To The Death Of 50 Million Unborn Children In The Last 40 Years. I Don't Think A Civilization Can Long Endure That Does Not Have Respect For All Human Life, Born And Not Yet Born. I Believe There Will Come A Time When We Are All Judged On Whether Or Not We Took A Stand In Defense Of All Life From The Moment Of Conception Until Our Last Natural Breath.

I Think That Most Manufacturing And Mining Should Be Under The Purview Of State Authorities.

We've Had Presidents That Have Put Their Stock Into Account And They Didn't Know What Their Stock Mix Was And I Like That. And I Think Donald Trump Has Agreed That He Would Do The Same On His Stock. He's Either Sold It Or Will Do It.

I Think Really That You Shouldn't Run As A Conservative If You're Not.

Well, I Think A Handshake Is Something That Honorable Men Do. Before We Had Contracts We Had Handshakes That Expressed That We Were Making An Arrangement That Was Based On Our Honor. And I Don't Think I Can Shake The Hand Of Someone Who Shows And Lacks Honor By Attacking A Man's Faith.

When You Ask Yourself, Whoever You Are, That Think You're Going To Support Donald Trump, Think, Do You Believe In The Constitution? Are You Going To Change The Constitution?

I Don't Think I'm Really Open To Having Washington Change Me.

Some In Washington Say That You Have To Trade Your Liberty For Security.

Currently, The United States Has Troops In Dozens Of Countries And Is Actively Fighting In Iraq, Syria, Libya, And Yemen (with The Occasional Drone Strike In Pakistan). In Addition, The United States Is Pledged To Defend 28 Countries In Nato. It Is Unwise To Expand The Monetary And Military Obligations Of The United States Given The Burden Of Our $20 Trillion Debt.

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

We Have To Think Before We Act.

If We Believe [obama] To Be A Good Man Who Would Never Kill Noncombatants In A Cafe In Houston, Sitting Out In A Sidewalk Cafe, Smoking - Oh, That's Right You're Not Allowed To Smoke Cigarettes Anymore.

It's A Little Different When You Spend 30 Years Developing All These Companies That We Just Ask [donald Trump] To Sell Them. So I Don't Think That's A Fair Request.

You Can Not Be A Conservative If You're Going To Keep Promoting New Programs That You're Not Going To Pay For.

I Don't Want To Live In A Nanny State Where People Are Telling Me Where I Can Go And What I Can Do.

I Think We Ought To Quit Sending [help] To Countries That Burn Our Flag.

I Think It's A Real Debate How Big Nato Should Be And Whether Or Not It's More Provocative Than Good. Whenever There's A War Fought, Our Soldiers Fight It And Our Dollars Pay For It. And, Really, Our Decisions Need To Be About Our National Security.

I Don't Think Edward Snowden Deserves A Death Penalty Or Life In Prison. I Think That's Inappropriate. I Think That's Why He Fled, [because] That Is What He Faced.

I Think A Lot Of Things Could Be Handled Locally.

I Think The Problem With John Bolton Is He Disagrees With President Trump's Foreign Policy. He Would Be Closer To John Mccain's Foreign Policy. John Bolton Still Believes The Iraq War Was A Good Idea. He Still Believes That Regime Change Is A Good Idea. He Still Believes That Nation-building Is A Good Idea.

Every Chance At Destabilizing [bashar] Assad... The Bombing Campaign Causes A Flood Of Refugees Into Jordan, There's Already Half A Million In Jordan. I Think A Bombing Campaign - I Think It's Hard To Argue That A U.s. Bombing Campaign Is Going To Cause Less Refugees. And I Think It Causes More Refugees And More Of A Humanitarian Disaster. I Think It Causes, Or Allows, The Risk Of Israel Being Attacked With A Gas Attack To Go Up, If We Attack Assad. So There's All Kinds Of Bad Things.

I Think We're Never Fully Protected, But I Think We Need To Do Everything We Can To Stop Threats To Us.

American Inventiveness And The Desire To Build Developed Because We Were Guaranteed The Right To Own Our Success.

There Was A Conservative Consensus For An Amendment I Put Forward Called Trust, But Verify That Would Have Strengthened Border Security On Both Refugees, Students And Those Coming Here. And Marco Sided And I Guess Was More Sympathetic To Chuck Schumer And To The President Than He Was To Conservative Principles.

The Fundamental Reason Why Medicare Is Failing Is Why The Soviet Union Failed - Socialism Doesn't Work.

The Separation Of Powers Is About Legislative Powers. It Isn't About Discussion Or Words.

Separation Of Powers

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

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

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.

Just Because A Couple People On The Supreme Court Declare Something To Be 'constitutional' Does Not Make It So.

The Power To Tax And Spend Is Restricted By The Enumerated Powers.

You Can Tell A Person's Religion 85 Percent Of The Time From Their Phone Records.

What I Don't Like From The President's Administration Is This Sort Of, 'i'll Put My Boot Heel On The Throat Of Bp.' I Think That Sounds Really Un-american In His Criticism Of Business. And I Think It's Part Of This Sort Of Blame-game Society In The Sense That It's Always Got To Be Someone's Fault Instead Of The Fact That Sometimes Accidents Happen.

The Insurance Companies Make About $15 Billion A Year. They Have Doubled Their Profit Margin Under Obamacare. And So Now We're Going To Take A Lot Of This And Call It A Stabilization Fund, But Really It's A Bailout Of Insurance Companies. And I Just Think That's Wrong. I Just Can't See Why Ordinary, Average Taxpayers Would Be Giving Money To Very, Very Wealthy Corporations. An Analogous Situation Would Be This: We All Complain That New Cars Cost Too Much. Why Don't We Have A New Car Stabilization Fund And Give $130 Billion To Car Companies?

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.

What I Say Is, National Defense Is The Most Important Thing We Do In Washington, But There's Still Waste In The Military Budget.

We As Republicans Have Taken The Easy Way Out A Lot Of Times.

You Can See Why There Are More People Wanting To Come From Economically-distressed Areas, And They Can't All Come To America. So It Gets Into The Valid, Legitimate Debate Over Immigration As To How Do We Choose. Do We Have A Diversity Lottery And Take People From Everywhere, Do We Base It More On Merit?

I Say The Phone Records Of Law Abiding Citizens Are None Of Their Damn Business!

The Current Budget That The Republicans Are Looking At Never Balances. How Can That Be Fiscally Responsible? And How Can We Look At The Public With A Straight Face And Say Yes We Ran On Balanced Budgets.

The Bill Of Rights Existed Long Before President Obama Was Elected, And As Long As I’m A U.s. Senator, I Will Fight To Protect The Basic Rights And Liberties That Belong To All Of Us As American Citizens.

My Goodness, What We Want In A Leader Is Someone With Judgment, Not Someone Who Is So Reckless As To Stand On The Stage And Say, "yes, I'm Jumping Up And Down; I'm Going To Shoot Down Russian Planes." Russia Already Flies In That Airspace. It May Not Be Something We're In Love With The Fact That They're There, But They Were Invited By Iraq And By Syria To Fly In That Airspace.

Toppling Secular Dictators In The Middle East Has Only Led To Chaos And The Rise Of Radical Islam.

We Live In A World, A Medieval Type Of World, Where Someone Can Accuse You - Through Gossip And Hearsay, And All Of A Sudden You're Supposed To Respond To Specific Charges From People You Don't Know, Are Not Aware Of Who These People Are, And You're Supposed To Respond To Their Specific Allegations?

My Goal Right Now Is To Actually Help Donald Trump. He's The Republican President. He's Doing A Lot Of Things That Conservatives Are For. I'm For. And So My Goal Is To Help Kentucky By Repealing Regulations That Are Killing Our Coal Industry. And I Think On That, We're Very Much Aligned.

I Think There's A Racial Outcome To A Lot Of What Goes In America, But I Don't Think Race Is Always The Reason.

Many States And Even Many People Who Are In Support Of The Death Penalty Question Their Support Of The Death Penalty Because Of The Imperfection Of Our Courts. Through Dna Testing, We Don't Always Get It Right, Even With That.

The Question Is, How Do We Keep America Safe From Terrorism? [donald]trump Says We Ought To Close That Internet Thing. The Question Really Is, What Does He Mean By That? Like They Do In North Korea? Like They Do In China?

I’ve Never Argued Against Any Technology Being Used When You Have An Imminent Threat, An Active Crime Going On. If Someone Comes Out Of A Liquor Store With A Weapon And Fifty Dollars In Cash, I Don’t Care If A Drone Kills Him Or A Policeman Kills Him.

2007 Was A Long Time Ago, And Events Do Change Over Long Periods Of Time.

The Founders Never Intended For Americans To Trust Their Government. Our Entire Constitution Was Predicated On The Notion That Government Was A Necessary Evil, To Be Restrained And Minimized As Much As Possible.

We Must Protect Ourselves From Jihadis Without Losing Ourselves.

Losing Ourselves

I Would Have Voted 'no' On The Iraq War And 'yes' To Afghanistan.

How Would You Possibly Sell 700 Companies In A Fire Sale And Hope To Get What They Were Worth?it's Just An Unrealistic Sort Of Standard They're Trying To Hold [donald Trump] To.

We Are More Polarized. And Some Of That Comes From The People And Some Of That Comes From The Media.

My Grandfather Would Live To See His Children Become Doctors And Ministers, Accounts And Professors.

In The Aftermath Of 9/11, The Patriot Act Was Rushed To The Floor. Several Hundred Pages. Nobody Read It ... But People Voted Because They Were Fearful And People Said There Could Be Another Attack And Americans Will Blame Me If I Don't Vote On This.

There's A Sense Of Urgency That The President Does Not Possess, That There Is A 9/11 In The Making.

Sense Of Urgency

People Don't Like To Vote Against Something That's So Incredibly Popular.

If You Think You Have The Right To Health Care, You Are Saying Basically That I Am Your Slave. I Provide Health Care... My Staff And Technicians Provide It... If You Have A Right To Health Care, Then You Have A Right To Their Labor.

I Think If You Have A Two-story Office And You Hire Someone Who's Handicapped, It Might Be Reasonable To Let Him Have An Office On The First Floor Rather Than The Government Saying You Have To Have A $100,000 Elevator.

There Comes A Time, In The History Of Nations When Fear And Forgetfulness Cause A Nation To Hesitate, To Waver And Perhaps Even To Succumb. When That Time Comes Those Who Love Liberty Must Rise To The Occasion. Will You? Will You Lovers Of Liberty, Will You Rise To The Occasion?

I Think Those Who Have Wanted Regime [of Bashar Assad] Change Have Made A Mistake.

The Stamp Act Was A Direct Tax Imposed On The Colonies By King George Iii. This Act Inevitably Led To The American Revolution. Just As The Stamp Act Did In 1765, Obamacare Should Act As A Wake-up Call. Chief Justice Roberts Provides Us With A Similar Call To Action.

Well, There’s 10 - There’s 10 Different - There’s 10 Different Titles, You Know, To The Civil Rights Act, And Nine Out Of 10 Deal With Public Institutions. And I’m Absolutely In Favor Of One Deals With Private Institutions, And Had I Been Around, I Would Have Tried To Modify That.

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.

How Much Liberty Do With Want To Give Up For A False Sense Of Security?

I Tell People I Won't Vote To Go To War Unless I'm Ready To Go Or Send My Kids.

Republicans Who Criticize The Use Of Two Languages, I Think, Make A Great Mistake.

Cut Defense Spending As Part Of Cutting All Federal Spending.

I Think We Need To Get To The Bottom Of It. And I Think There Should Be An Investigation [of Hackers Attacks] Because In Order To Defend Ourselves Against Other Adversarial Countries, We Have To Protect Our Information.

I Think My Dad Has Helped Me Tremendously.

I Think We Have A Tea Party Mandate, And That Tea Party Mandate Is For Good-government Type Of Things, Things Like Term Limits, Things Like A Balanced Budget Amendment, Things Like Read The Bills For Goodness Sakes, Things Like That Maybe Congress Should Only Pass Legislation That They Apply To Themselves As Well.

I Think That There Is A Bipartisan Consensus That's Incorrect That We Should Have The Whole World Be In Nato. For Example, If We Had Ukraine And Georgia In Nato - And This Is Something Mccain And The Other Neocons Have Advocated For - We Would Be At War Now Because Russia Has Invaded Both Of Them.

I Am Encouraged President Obama Now Says He Will Fulfill His Constitutional Obligation To Seek Authorization For Any Potential Military Action In Syria. This Is The Most Important Decision Any President Or Any Senator Must Make, And It Deserves Vigorous Debate

One Of The Things That Came Out Of The Campaign, As I Recall, Was A High Ranking [hillary's] Clinton Official, I Believe, Sent Their Password Via Email. We Also Need To Learn How To Protect Our Own Information. And I Think That's Important As Well.

I Read All Of Ayn Rand's Novels When I Was 17.

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

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?

There Is Nothing Conservative About Bailing Out Wall Street. Likewise, There Is Nothing Progressive About Billion Dollar Loans To Millionaires To Build Solar Panels.

If I Had Been Told To Get Out Of The Street As A Teenager, There Would Have Been A Distinct Possibility That I Might Have Smarted Off. But, I Wouldn’t Have Expected To Be Shot.

We Had People Coming To Our Foreign Relations Committee And Saying, "oh, We Need To Arm The Allies Of Al Qaida." They Are Still Saying This. It Is A Crazy Notion. This Is The Biggest Debate We Should Be Having Is Is Regime Change A Good Idea; Has It Been A Good Idea.

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.

I'm Not Accusing Anybody Of Being [hitler].

The People Who Get The Ability To Use Force Have To Be Watched Carefully By Civilians To Make Sure They Don't Use It Excessively.

What Is Immoral For An Individual To Do, Is Immoral For A Government To Do

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.

You Know, You Look At Term Limits, You Poll Term Limits, 70, 80 Percent Of Republicans Or Democrats Are For It.

The More We Can Have Peaceful Trade Both With Russia, With China, And With Others, You Know, There's A Self Interest In This For Everyone.

I Believe We Should Work To End All Racism In American Society And Staunchly Defend The Inherent Rights Of Every Person.

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

Should It Be Prohibited For Private Entities Such As A Church, Bed And Breakfast Or Retirement Neighborhood That Doesn't Want Noisy Children? Absolutely Not.

When We Toppled [muammar] Gadhafi In Libya, I Think That Was A Mistake. I Think Isis Grew Stronger, We Had A Failed State, And We Were More At Risk.

I Have Allowed The President To Pick His Political Appointees…but I Will Not Sit Quietly And Let Him Shred The Constitution.

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.

We Should Offer The American Public Less Expensive Insurance.

I Also Think Regime Change In Syria Is A Bad Idea. And That's An Ongoing Question. It's One Of The Things I Like About Donald Trump, One Of The Reasons I Endorsed Him Is He Thinks Regime Change Is A Mistake. But John Bolton Thinks Completely The Opposite. They Are Diametric Opposites.

We Should Understand The Limitations Of War. We Should Understand The Sacrifices Our Young Men And Women Go Through Losing Lives And Limbs. And They Should Only Do It For The Highest Of Purposes.

We Do Not Project Power From Bankruptcy Court. We're Borrowing A Million Dollars A Minute.

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.

As Our Voices Rise In Protest, The Nsa Monitors Your Every Phone Call. If You Have A Cell Phone, You Are Under Surveillance. I Believe What You Do On Your Cell Phone Is None Of Their Damn Business.

For Most Of Our History, No One Dared To Tell Americans, You Don't Build That.

Congress Shall Pass No Law That Exempts Themselves!

I Want To See The Original Long-form Certificate Of Donald Trump's Republican Registration.

I Think We've Made The Collection Haystack So Big, No One's Ever Getting Through The Haystack To Find The Needle. What We Really Need To Do Is Isolate The Haystack Into A Group Of Suspicious People And Spend Enormous Resources Looking At Suspicious People, People Who We Have Probable Cause.

I Am Running For President To Return Our Country To The Principles Of Liberty And Limited Government.

Who Gets To Decide Who's An Enemy Combatant And Who's An American Citizen? Are We Really So Frightened And So Easily Frightened That We Would Give Up A Thousand-year History?

You Have To Decide In Advance Whether You're Ready Go To War. If You Guys Are Ready To Send A Million Troops Into Ukraine And Fight World War Iii, You're Going To Do It Without My Support Because I Think That's A Really Foolish Notion.

There's 150,000 Students Here From The Middle East. If 40% Of Them Have Overstayed Their Visa, Don't We Need To Know Where They Are, What They're Doing, Are They Obeying Our Rules?

The Other Thing To Realize Is That Almost All These Shootings, Including This Shooting [in San-bernardino], Happened In A Government Building Where People Are Not Allowed To Defend Themselves. While It's Not The Ultimate Answer, The Ultimate Answer Would Be No Violence, Part Of The Answer Is Saying, "we Need To Allow People To Defend Themselves."

If Senator Rubio Were Doing His Job And In Congress More, He Might Know That The Program 'phone Records Of A Potential Terrorist Cause' Continues. It's Been Ongoing For The Last Six Months. So The Paris Tragedy, This Tragedy Happened While We Were Still Doing Bulk Collection, All Bulk Collection. Also In France, They Have A Program A Thousand-fold More Invasive, Collecting All Of The Data Of All Of The French.

And When The Time Is Right, I Hope That African Americans Will Again Look To The Party Of Emancipation, Civil Liberty, And Individual Freedom.

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 That By Arming The Allies Of Isis, The Islamic Rebels Against [bashar] Assad, That We Created A Safe Space Or Made That Space Bigger For Isis To Grow.

Using Taxes To Punish The Rich, In Reality, Punishes Everyone Because We Are All Interconnected. High Taxes And Excessive Regulation And Massive Debt Are Not Working.

I Think There's Evil On Both Sides [of Syria], And I Think That's One Reason I Don't Want To Be Involved In Civil War. I See Things In Personal Terms. I Just Can't See Sending One Of My Sons - Or Your Son Or Daughter - To Fight In A Civil War, Where On One Side We Have A Dictator, Who In All Likelihood Gassed His People.

I Think It's A Little Premature To Talk About Response Until We Know Exactly What Happened, But We Should Know What Happened. And We Should Know How To Defend [against Hackers Attacks] Ourselves Without Question.

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