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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.

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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.

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You Need To Have People Within Your Own Party That Have The Wherewithal To Stand Up To You.

The Callous Use Of General Warrants And The Disregard For The Bill Of Rights Must End. Forcing Us To Choose Between Our Rights And Our Safety Is A False Choice And We Are Better Than That As A Nation And As A People.

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.

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.

If I Were To Look At Foreign Policy, I Would Say John Mccain Has Been Wrong On Just About Everything Over The Last Four Decades.

What Worries Me Most About Trump, Other Than All Of The Other Crazy Things, Is That I Believe That He Wants Power And I Believe From My Point Of View That Power Corrupts, And That The Whole Purpose Of Our Founding Fathers And America Was To Contain Power.

I Don't Care If You're A Republican Or A Democrat, There Is Something Profoundly Un-american About Using The Brute Force Of Government To Bully Someone.

Roll Back Federal Spending To 2008 Levels.

Federal Spending

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

The Fourth Amendment Was What We Fought The Revolution Over!

Fourth Amendment

Why Don't We See Any Questions From The Press? Why Don't We See Anybody From The Media Saying, 'mr. President, It's Illegal, You Started It, You Are Performing A Program That Is Collecting All Of The Phone Records From All Americans, It's Been Declared Illegal From The Second Highest Court In The Land, Why Don't You Stop?'

Big And Oppressive Government Has Long Been The Enemy Of Freedom, Something Black Americans Know All Too Well.

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.

Cut Defense Spending As Part Of Cutting All Federal Spending.

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

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

I Think What We've Had In The Past Is The Government Has Said, "well, We Need To Collect The Whole Haystack." And The Haystack Is Americans' Privacy. Every Americans' Privacy. We Have To Give Up All Of Our Privacy.

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

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.

I Think Ultimately That The Rules That You Make For Gun Control, People Who Are Intent On Killing Themselves Aren't Too Concerned With The Rules. Law-abiding Citizens Are.

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.

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.

Foreign Aid Is Not Something The Vast Majority Of Americans Support, But Definitely Not Conservatives.

I Have A Question, A Question For The President: Do You Hate All Rich People, Or Just Rich People Who Don't Contribute To Your Campaign? Do You Hate Poor People Or Do You Just Hate Poor People With Jobs?

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

I Think Most People, In Their Lifetime, Have Seen Somebody Who Has The Ability To Use Force Lord It Over Other Individuals. I See A Lot Of Those Videos, And I Am Disturbed By People Being Yanked Out Of Their Cars, And It Seems To Be A Disproportionate Amount Of Young Black Men. I'm Disturbed By It.

Democrats In Louisville Were Led By Courier-journal Editor Henry Watterson And Were Implacably Opposed To Blacks Voting.

We Should Offer The American Public Less Expensive Insurance.

The Gop Of Old Has Grown Old And Moss Covered.

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

You Can Be Strong Without Being Involved In Every Single Civil War Around The World.

America's Not The World's Policeman. Terrible Things Happen Across The Globe And It Is Beyond Our Means To Right Every Wrong. But When, With Modest Effort And Risk, We Can Stop Children From Being Gassed To Death And Thereby Make Our Own Children Safer Over The Long Run, I Believe We Should Act.

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

Nobody Ever Was Fired For 9/11. Instead Of Firing The People Who Didn't Do A Good Job, We Gave Them Medals. The Guy Who Did A Good Job, I Don't Know What Happened To Him. And What We Did Was We Decided We'd Just Collect Everybody's Information. That We'd Sort Of Scrap The Bill Of Rights.

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

Separation Of Powers

If Americans Were Attacked, It Does Change The Equation. The Problem Is, Is That With Regard To This Is There've Been Horrendous Killings Of Civilians With Conventional Weapons.

I Will Advocate For Kentucky's Interests.

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

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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.

The History Of African-american Repression In This Country Rose From Government-sanctioned Racism. Jim Crow Laws Were A Product Of Bigoted State And Local Governments.

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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.

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I Would Set Aside All These Budget Cuts That Are Going To Devastate The F.b.i., The C.i.a., And The N.s.a. Sequestration, Cuts, Are Not Only Gutting The Military, They're Gutting The F.b.i. So If I Were President, I Would Set These Cuts Aside. I Would Reinstate The N.s.a. Program As Robust As Possible Within The Constitutional Limits.

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.

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Losing Ourselves

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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.

President Obama Said, Oh, We Want To Make Insurance Perfect For People, But He Added All These Regulatory Mandates, Made It Too Expensive. Young, Healthy People Didn't Buy It, And The People Remaining In The Insurance Pool Were Sicker And Sicker. That's The Adverse Selection And The Death Spiral Of Obamacare. And So Really We Do Need To Discuss The Intricacies Of What Worked And What Didn't Work In Obamacare. And I Think The Better Way To Do This Is To Let Individuals Have The Freedom To Choose What Kind Of Insurance Is Best For Them. The Government Doesn't Always Know Best.

I Will Not Let The Patriot Act, The Most Unpatriotic Of Acts, Go Unchallenged. At The Very Least, We Should Debate. We Should Debate Whether Or Not We Are Going To Relinquish Our Rights, Or Whether Or Not We Are Going To Have A Full And Able Debate Over Whether Or Not We Can Live Within The Constitution, Or Whether Or Not We Have To Go Around The Constitution.

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I'm Here In Whoopi Goldberg's Office Trying To Choose Some Shoes. We've Seen [marco] Rubio Has Those Cool New Boots And I Don't Want To Be Outdone.

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."

I Think The Entire World Knows, And North Korea Knows, That If They Used Any Weapons On Our Soldiers They Would Be Obliterated. And It Would Be An Overwhelming Response.

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The Paris Attack Was Highly Sophisticated, Well-planned, Very Clever, Took Months In The Making, Very Much Like 9/11. And There Is A 9/11-style Attack Coming To America.

It's Curious That Only In Washington Can You Spend $2 Billion And Claim That You're Saving Money.

I Have A Great Deal Of Concern For Any President And The Amount Of Power They Accumulate Versus Congress. I'm A Stickler About The Idea Of Separation Of Powers.

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Hardened Terrorists Are Coming Here To Hit Us Hard If We Don't Hit Them First.

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I've Put Pencil To Paper... And I've Said I Would Cut Spending, And I've Said Exactly Where. Each One Of My Budgets Has Taken A Meat Axe To Foreign Aid, Because I Think We Ought To Quit Sending It To Countries That Hate Us.

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

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Parents Own The Children, And It Is An Issue Of Freedom And Public Health.

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

The Republican Promise Is For Policies That Create Economic Growth. Republicans Believe Lower Taxes, Less Regulation, Balanced Budgets, A Solvent Social Security And Medicare Will Stimulate Economic Growth.

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'm The Third Of Five Children.

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

Giving Someone A One-time Stimulus Check, Or A One-time Tax Cut That Expires Doesn't Allow The Predictability That Business Needs.

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.

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.

In Battle, Combatants Engaged In War Against America Get No Due Process And May Lawfully Be Killed. But Citizens Not In A Battlefield - However Despicable - Are Guaranteed A Trial By Our Constitution. No One Argues That Americans Who Commit Treason Shouldn't Be Punished. The Maximum Penalty For Treason Is Death. But The Constitution Specifies The Process Necessary To Convict.

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

Benjamin Netanyahu Said That Ultimately, They Will Be Stronger When They're Independent. My Position Is Exactly The Same. We Shouldn't Borrow Money From China To Send It Anywhere, But Why Don't We Start With Eliminating Aid To Our Enemies.

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

Sense Of Urgency

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 Don't Like The Idea Of Telling Private Business Owners. I Abhor Racism. I Think It's A Bad Business Decision To Ever Exclude Anybody From Your Restaurant. But At The Same Time I Do Believe In Private Ownership. I Think There Should Be Absolutely No Discrimination In Anything That Gets Public Funding.

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.

What I Can Say Is, Is That If You Do A Poll, And One Of The Worldwide Polling Companies Did This, And They Asked People In 50 Countries, "would You Like To Come To America," It's About 700 Million Would Come Next Year. We Would Double Our Population.

Does The Owner Of The Restaurant Own His Restaurant? Or Does The Government Own His Restaurant?

I Say Not One Penny More To Countries That Are Burning Our Flag.

The State Doesn’t Own Your Children. Parents Own The Children.

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.

Congress Shall Pass No Law That Exempts Themselves!

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.

I'm A Different Kind Of Republican. I've Introduced A Five-year Balanced Budget. I've Introduced The Largest Tax Cut In Our History. I Stood For Ten And A Half Hours On The Senate Floor To Defend Your Right To Be Left Alone. But I've Also Gone To Chicago. I've Gone To Detroit. I've Been To Ferguson, I've Been To Baltimore, Because I Want Our Party To Be Bigger, Better And Bolder...

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

The Key To Winning Any General Election In The Usa Is To Excite Your Base And Then Expand Your Base - Get Independent Voters And Voters Who Haven't Been Voting For Your Party To Come To Your Party.

We Must Always Embrace Individual Liberty And Enforce The Constitutional Rights Of All Americans-rich And Poor, Immigrant And Native, Black And White.

Black And White

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.

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

I Don't Think He Fully Analyzes The Situation. If You Destabilize [bashar] Assad And Punish Assad, You Do Embolden Terrorists. You Embolden Al-qaida Because Al-qaida Is On The Other Side Of This War. So, One Side Wins If You Destabilize The Other Side. So, He Will Be Emboldening Al-qaida And The Islamic Rebels. And I'm Not So Sure They're Better Than Assad.

I Call Myself A Constitutional Conservative.

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'm Going To Reserve Judgment On [rex] Tillerson. But I'll Ask Him The Same Question I've Asked The Others: Do You Understand The Historic Lesson That The Iraq War Was A Failure, A Strategic Mistake, That's What Donald Trump Says.

Well, Let's Be Clear, I'm The Only One On The Stage Who Actually Has A Five-year Budget That Balances.

You Know, When Republicans Were In Charge, We Doubled The Debt. But, Now, Our Concern Is The Democrats Are In Charge And They're Tripling The Debt. So, Really, Our Concern Is That We Want Smaller Government.

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

African American

According To This Woman, Who Requested Anonymity Because Of Her Current Job As A Clinical Psychologist, "he And Randy Came To My House, They Knocked On My Door, And Then They Blindfolded Me, Tied Me Up, And Put Me In Their Car. They Took Me To Their Apartment And Tried To Force Me To Take Bong Hits. They'd Been Smoking Pot."

Republicans Traditionally Say, 'oh, We'll Cut Domestic Spending, But We Won't Touch The Military.' The Liberals - The Ones Who Are Good - Will Say, 'oh, We'll Cut The Military, But We Won't Cut Domestic Spending.'

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.

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?

We Need A Revival In The Country,” Paul Said. “we Need Another Great Awakening With Tent Revivals Of Thousands Of People Saying, 'reform Or See What's Going To Happen If We Don't Reform.'

I Think We Can't Be Naive In Dealing With The Russians Or Dealing With The Syrians. But At The Same Time, I Think We Could Try To Encourage - And I Think This Is What Diplomacy Should Do - Encourage The Self-interests Of All Parties To Believe That It Is In Their Best Interest To Get Evil Actors Or Rogue Actors Such As Syria Or Iran, If You Try To Have Less Belligerent And Less Bellicose Behavior.

Some People Say I Chastise The Republican Party Too Much.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

[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.

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

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.

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 Believe People Ought To Be Treated Fairly Under The Law. I See No Reason Why If The Marriage Contract Conveys Certain Things That If You Want To Marry Another Woman That You Can Do That And Have A Contract. But The Thing Is Is The Religious Connotation Of Marriage That Has Been Going On For Thousands Of Years, I Still Want To Preserve That. And You Probably Could Have Both. You Could Have Both Traditional Marriage, Which I Believe In. And Then You Could Also Have The Neutrality Of The Law That Allows People To Have Contracts With Another.

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.

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.

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.

The Republican Party's History Is Rich And Chock Full Of Emancipation And Black History.

We Shouldn't Be Fearful Of Freedom, We Shouldn't Be Fearful Of Individual Liberty.

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

To Put Everyone In Government Housing And Food Stamps And Bring Them In From Around The World I Think Is A Mistake. To Give Of Your Own Money, I've Given To My Church. My Church Has Helped People That Came From Bosnia. That's A Good Thing.

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.

Overall Do I Believe Exchange With Other Cultures Is Good, People Going Back And Forth Is Good, Trade Is Good. Yes, All Of These Things Are Good. But I Think You Have To Make Sure The System's Working. We Need To Know, Virtually 100 Percent Of The Time, When You Come And When You Leave. It's Called Entry And Exit.

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.

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

African American

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.

Both Sides Of The Aisle - Republican And Democrat - Have Been Unwilling And Afraid To Address The Deficit, And Someone's Got To.

I Love The Mexican People; I Respect The Mexican Leaders - But The Leaders Are Much Sharper, Smarter And More Cunning Than Our [american] Leaders.

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.

I Believe We Should Work To End All Racism In American Society And Staunchly Defend The Inherent Rights Of Every Person. I Have Clearly Stated In Prior Interviews That I Abhor Racial Discrimination And Would Have Worked To End Segregation. Even Though This Matter Was Settled When I Was 2, And No Serious People Are Seeking To Revisit It Except To Score Cheap Political Points, I Unequivocally State That I Will Not Support Any Efforts To Repeal The Civil Rights Act Of 1964.

The President Began This Program By Executive Order. He Should Immediately End It By Executive Order. For Over A Year Now, He Has Said The Program Is Illegal, And Yet He Does Nothing.

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

A Tea Party Tidal Wave Is Coming.

We Are Borrowing $40,000 Per Second.

These Attacks Prove One Thing For Certain: The Liberal Establishment Is Desperate To Keep Leaders Like Me Out Of Office, And We Are Sure To Hear More Wild, Dishonest Smears During This Campaign.

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

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

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.

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.

I Won't Support Any Budget, Whether It's A Republican Or A Democrat Budget, That Doesn't Lead To Balance.

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.

I Don't Know About [rex] Tillerson, But I Do Know That John Bolton Doesn't Get It. He Still Believes In Regime Change. He's Still A Big Cheerleader For The Iraq War. He's Promoted A Nuclear Attack By Israel On Iran. He Wants To Do Regime Change In Iran. So, I Think John Bolton Is So Far Out Of It And Has Such A Naive Understanding Of The World. If He Were To Be The Assistant Or The Undersecretary For Tillerson, I'm An Out Automatic No On Bolton.

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.

Our Intervention To Destabilize The Assad Regime Has Really Made The Chaos Worse In Syria. And If You Were To Get Rid Of Assad Today, I Would Actually Worry About The 2 Million Christians That Are Protected By Assad.

I Think That We Have To Be Very Careful About Who Comes Here From The Middle East.

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 We Defeat Terrorism By Showing Them That We Do Not Fear Them.

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.

The U.s. Should Never Get Involved Where We Have No Clear National Interest. We Should Not Intervene Militarily In A Country Like Syria, Where We Can’t Separate Friend From Foe And Might End Up Arming The Very People Who Hate Us The Most.

I'm Not Opposed To Letting People Work And Labor In Our Country, But We Shouldn't Provide An Easy Route To Citizenship. We're The Only Country I Know Of Where A Person Can Come In Illegally And That Baby Becomes A Citizen And I Think That Should Stop Also.

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.

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 Will Tell , Though, That Donald Trump Got 70 Percent In Eastern Kentucky And I Don't Think It Had Anything To Do With The Russian. He Got 70 Percent Because In Eastern Kentucky We Didn't Like What President [barack] Obama Or Hillary Clinton Wanted To Do To Our Coal Jobs. It Didn't Have Anything To Do With The Russians.

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.

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

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.

I Was Told I Got 10 Measly Minutes, But Just In Case, I Brought 13 Hours Worth Of Material.

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.

I Worry That The Senate Is Working To Consider A Series Of Little-noticed Provisions In Comprehensive Immigration Reform That May Provide A Pathway To A National Id Card For All Individuals Present In The United States - Citizens And Noncitizens.

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.

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.

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.

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

I Will Speak Until I Can No Longer Speak. I Will Speak As Long As It Takes, Until The Alarm Is Sounded From Coast To Coast That Our Constitution Is Important, That Your Rights To Trial By Jury Are Precious, That No American Should Be Killed By A Drone On American Soil Without First Being Charged With A Crime, Without First Being Found To Be Guilty By A Court.

We Need To Be Fearful Of Companies That Get So Big That They Can Actually Be Directing Policy.

Let Me Be Clear: I Support The Civil Rights Act Because I Overwhelmingly Agree With The Intent Of The Legislation, Which Was To Stop Discrimination In The Public Sphere And Halt The Abhorrent Practice Of Segregation And Jim Crow Laws.

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

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 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.

Fear & Complacency Allow Power To Accumulate & Liberty & Privacy To Suffer

Any Time We Give People The Ability To Use Force, We Have To Be Very Careful. It's Sort Of Like The People Who Spy On Us - You've Got To Watch The Watchers.

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

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.

My Belief Has Always Been That National Defense Is The Most Important Thing We Do, But We Shouldn't Borrow To Pay For It.

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 Think We Need To Treat Everybody With Dignity.

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