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There's A Guy In California Who Was Voting 24 Years After He Died. I Mean, So To Suggest To Us That People Who Are Concerned About Honest Elections Are Somehow Nutty, I Think, Is A Mistake.

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There's A Guy In California Who Was Voting 24 Years After He Died. I Mean, So To Suggest To Us That People Who Are Concerned About Honest Elections Are Somehow Nutty, I Think, Is A Mistake.

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An Energy Tax Punishes Senior Citizens, It Punishes Rural Americans, If You Use Electricity It Punishes You. This Bill Will Increase Your Cost Of Living And May Kill Your Job.

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Our Generation Had Been Told That Life Had Seriousness, And We Came In (to Politics) With Purpose. We Were Serving History.

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We Used To Be A Serious Country. When We Got Attacked At Pearl Harbor, We Took On Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy And Nazi Germany. We Beat All Three In Less Than Four Years. We're About To Enter The Seventh Year Of This Phony War Against ... [terrorist Groups], And We're Losing.

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That Is The Most Accurate, Predictive Model For His Behavior....i Think Obama Gets Up Every Morning With A Worldview That Is Fundamentally Wrong About Reality...if You Look At The Continuous Denial Of Reality, There Has Got To Be A Point Where Someone Stands Up And Says That This Is Just Factually Insane.

I Think Donald Trump Is Very, Very Cautious About Nuclear Weapons, And He's Seriously Concerned. And This Might Be One Of The Reasons He Wants To Deal With Putin Carefully, Because He's Aware Of How Many Nuclear Weapons Putin Has, And That Russian Doctrine Is Much More Open About Using Nuclear Weapons Than Is American Doctrine.

If You Import A Commercial Quantity Of Illegal Drugs. It Is Because You Have Made The Personal Decision That You Are Prepared To Get Rich By Destroying Our Children. I Have Made The Decision That I Love Our Children Enough That We Will Kill You If You Do This.

I'm Not A Natural Leader. I'm Too Intellectual; I'm Too Abstract; I Think Too Much.

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America Is Fed Up With Political Correctness, And It Is Fed Up With Government That Doesn't Work. It's Fed Up With Weakness Being Interpreted As Wisdom.

Christmas Represents Love And Mercy. It Was Ushered In By The Star Of Hope And Remains Forever Consecrated By The Sacrifice Of The Cross. Christmas Holds Its Place In The Hearts Of Men Because They Know That Love Is The Greatest Thing In The World. Christmas Is Celebrated In The True Spirit Only By Those Who Make Some Sacrifice For The Benefit Of Their Fellow Men.

America Is Not A Country That Wanders Around Trusting People With Power. This Is A Country That Wants Accountability.

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We Need A Dramatically Expanded Use Of Statecraft.

It's Going To Be A Bummer If Mars Turns Out To Be Like Us.

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As A Historian I Understand How Histories Are Written. My Enemies Will Write Histories That Dismiss Me And Prove I Was Unimportant. My Friends Will Write Histories That Glorify Me And Prove I Was More Important Than I Was. And Two Generations Or Three From Now, Some Serious Sober Historian Will Write A History That Sort Of Implies I Was Whoever I Was.

We Have Got To Get Beyond This Political Bologna. I'm Not Allowed To Say Anything Positive About Hillary Clinton Because Then I'm Not A Loyal Republican, And She's Not Allowed To Say Anything Positive About Me Because Then She's Not A Loyal Democrat. What A Stupid Way To Run A Country.

The Greatest Leaders In Fighting For An Integrated America In The Twentieth Century Were In The Democratic Party. The Fact Is, It Was The Liberal Wing Of The Democratic Party That Ended Segregation. The Fact Is That It Was Franklin Delano Roosevelt Who Gave Hope To A Nation That Was In Despair And Could Have Slid Into Dictatorship. And The Fact Is, Every Republican Has Much To Learn From Studying What The Democrats Did Right.

I Discourage A Cult Of Personality.

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I Think That One Of The Great Problems We Have In The Republican Party Is That We Don't Encourage You To Be Nasty. We Encourage You To Be Neat, Obedient, And Loyal And Faithful And All Those Boy Scout Words, Which Would Be Great Around The Camp Fire, But Are Lousy In Politics.

It Is False To Suggest That Thomas Jefferson Or Any Other Founding Father Believed In A Legal Barrier To God In The Public Square.

The Mother Killing Her Two Children In South Carolina Vividly Reminds Every American How Sick The Society Is Getting And How Much We Have To Have Change. I Think People Want To Change And The Only Way You Get Change Is To Vote Republican.

I Balanced The Budget For Four Straight Years, Paid Off $405 Billion In Debt - Pretty Conservative. The First Entitlement Reform Of Your Lifetime - In Fact, The Only Major Entitlement Reform Now Is Welfare.

Gop Represents People, But Dems Communicate Better.

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More People Are On Food Stamps Today Because Of Obamas Policies Than Ever In History. I Would Like To Be The Best Paycheck President In American History. ... And So Im Prepared If The Naacp Invites Me, Ill Go To Their Convention And Talk About Why The African-american Community Should Demand Paychecks And Not Be Satisfied With Food Stamps.

African American

Part Of Why The Tea Party So Deeply Threatened The Elite Media Is The Tea Party Looked Around And Suddenly Realized, There Are More Of Us Than There Are Of Them.

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I Believe We Are Now In A Struggle Over Whether Or Not We Are Going To Save America.

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?

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Heterosexual Marriage Is The Heart Of Our Civilization.

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Would You Pick Me? I Am So Much My Own Agent, It Would Be - Its Inconceivable.

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Russia Is Modernizing Its Nuclear Systems. They're Moving Toward More Effective Tactical Nuclear Systems. They're Moving Toward Delivery Systems Designed To Evade Anti-ballistic Missile Defenses. The Russians Are Investing, By The Way, In Robotic Weapons, Including A Potential Robotic Tank. Their Investment In New Technology, I Suspect, Outweighs All Of The European Defense Research And Development Spending Combined.

The Folks Who Want To Build This Mosque, Who Are Really Radical Islamists, Who Want To Triumphfully Prove They Can Build A Mosque Next To A Place Where 3,000 Americans Were Killed By Radical Islamists. Those Folks Don't Have Any Interest In Reaching Out To The Community. They're Trying To Make A Case About Supremacy... This Happens All The Time In America. Nazis Don't Have The Right To Put Up A Sign Next To The Holocaust Museum In Washington. We Would Never Accept The Japanese Putting Up A Site Next To Pearl Harbor.

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

I Think Putin Has Already Gotten Used To The Idea Of Obama And His Secretary Of State, John Kerry, Making Noise - It Just Doesn't Seem To Impress Moscow At All.

There Are Whole States Where People [with Addiction Or Mental Health Issues] Can't Get To A Doctor. If That Were True Of Pancreatic Cancer, If That Were True Of Heart Disease, If That Were True Of Diabetes, We'd All Understand That It Made No Sense At All. And Yet We Somehow Approach Mental Health From A Very Different Standard.

I Suspect That Donald Trump Is Going To Be Very Tough With Those Countries That Don't Spend At Least 2 Percent Of Their Gross Domestic Product On Defense. He Will Ask Them Why Should We Allow A Free-ride Policy.

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Deadline For Iraqi Withdrawal Is Legislating Defeat.

Adolescence Was Invented In The 19th Century To Enable Middle-class Families To Keep Their Children Out Of Sweatshops. But It Has Degenerated Into A Process Of Enforced Boredom And Age Segregation That Has Produced One Of The Most Destructive Social Arrangements In Human History: Consigning 13-year-old Males To Learning From 15-year-old Males.

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The Growth And Opportunity Project Is The Most Successful Reexamination Of A National Party In Modern Times. Te Disciplined Focus Of Chairman Reince Priebus Has Turned Its Suggestions Into Realities That Are Changing The Political Setting Of Elections. No One Should Underestimate The Boldness Of These Changes And The Courage They Took.

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There’s A Large Part Of Me That’s Four Years Old. I Wake Up In The Morning And I Know That Somewhere There’s A Cookie. I Don’t Know Where It Is But I Know It’s Mine And I Have To Go Find It. That’s How I Live My Life. My Life Is Amazingly Filled With Fun.

Military Tribunals To Lock People Up The Way Lincoln Did.

I Think To Close Half Of Magic Kingdom For The Purpose Of A White House Invitation Town Hall Meeting On A Phony Main Street On Behalf Of A Phony President Just Strikes Me As Weird.

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We've Had An Invented Palestinian People, Who Are In Fact Arabs, And Were Historically Part Of The Arab Community. And They Had A Chance To Go Many Places. And For A Variety Of Political Reasons We Have Sustained This War Against Israel Now Since The 1940's, And I Think It's Tragic.

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I Want To Say Unequivocally That While I Cherish Every Person Who Comes From Anywhere, Who Comes Here Legally And Seeks To Pursue Happiness, And I Hope All Of Them Decide To Stay And Become American Citizens, But I Want Them To Become American. And Part Of Becoming American Involved English. It Is Vital Historically To Assert And Establish That English Is The Common Language At The Heart Of Our Civilization.

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Show True Cost Of Fica-double What Is Shown On Paychecks.

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I Was Attacked The Other Night For Being Grandiose. I Would Just Want You To Note: Lincoln Standing At Council Bluffs Was Grandiose. The Wright Brothers Standing At Kitty Hawk Were Grandiose. John F. Kennedy Was Grandiose. I Accept The Charge That I Am Grandiose And That Americans Are Instinctively Grandiose.

I Think The Destructive, Vicious, Negative Nature Of Much Of The News Media Makes It Harder To Govern This Country, Harder To Attract Decent People To Run For Public Office.

Support Charters; Insist On Change For Failing Schools.

Nothing Gets Done (in Congress) Unless It's Bipartisan. And The Reason That Matters Is That It's A Function Of Reality.

Remember, Most Of The Bureaucrats Voted For Hillary Clinton. Most Of The Bureaucrats Deeply Dislike What Trump Is Trying To Accomplish, And Most Of The Bureaucrats Think They Can't Be Fired, So They Can Outlast You.

I Have Six Times As Many Twitter Followers As All The Other Candidates Combined, But It Didn't Count Because If It Counted I'd Still Be A Candidate; Since I Can't Be A Candidate That Can't Count.

With Bill Clinton, There Were Things I Had To Have And Things I Couldn't Have. Clinton Had Things He Had To Have And Things He Couldn't Have. And There Was Space In The Middle Where You Could Have A Deal.

Measured Against The Scale And Momentum Of The Soviet Empire's Challenge, The Reagan Administration Has Failed, Is Failing, And Without A Dramatic Change In Strategy Will Continue To Fail.

The Long Experiment With Professional Politicians And Professional Government Is Over, And It Failed.

If You Are The Normal White American, Truth Is You Don't Understand Being Black In America, And You Instinctively Underestimate The Level Of Discrimination And The Level Of Additional Risk.

Donald Trump's Not A Sexual Predator.

We're At The Crossroads. Down One Road Is A European Centralized Bureaucratic Socialist Welfare System In Which Politicians And Bureaucrats Define The Future. Down The Other Road Is A Proud, Solid, Reaffirmation Of American Exceptionalism.

What More Do I Need To Say? Conservative Books Sell. I Can't Help It If Liberal Books Don't Sell.

I Am Excited About The Next Generation Of Leaders. I Have A Hunch There Will Be A Whole Group Of People Who Will Decide They Will Stand Up; I Know People 15 Years Old Asking Me How To Get Into Politics. So We Will Have A Steady Stream Of New Blood.

If We'd Had Government On [today's] Scale In The 1840s, The Stagecoaches Would Have Hired Lobbyists To Get A Bill Passed That Railroads Could Not Travel Faster Than A Horse Because It Would Be An Unfair Competitive Advantage.

Politics And War Are Remarkably Similar Situations.

It Is Perfectly American To Be Wrong.

For Most Of The Rise Of Modern Medicine, The Brain Was A Really Unknown Zone And Was All Based In Guesswork. Well, That's All Changing. And The Opioid Recovery Is A Very Good Example Of The Scale Of Change We're Seeing.

There's No Question At Times Of My Life, Partially Driven By How Passionately I Felt About This Country, That I Worked Far Too Hard And Things Happened In My Life That Were Not Appropriate.

Convert To Ira-based System.

Social Security

President Obama Is A President So Weak That He Makes Jimmy Carter Look Strong.

The Constitution Gives The President Of The United States An Extraordinarily Wide Grant Of Authority To Use The Power Of The Pardon.

I Think If I Were To Look For The Most Foolish Clinton Supporter And Ask You To Give Them Equal Time Nationally, I Could Find You Some Pretty Nutty People Who Are For Hillary Clinton.

Really Poor Children In Really Poor Neighborhoods Have No Habits Of Working And Have Nobody Around Them Who Works.

Poor Neighborhoods

My Fine Friends Who Are Perfectionists, Each In Their Own World Where They Are Petty Dictators, Could Write A Perfect Bill. Those Of Us Who Have Grown Up And Matured...understand That We Have To Work Together On The Big Issues.

Donald Trump Is Not An Immigrant Basher. His Mother Was A Legal Immigrant. His Wife Is A Legal Immigrant. He Employs Legal Immigrants. He Just Likes His Immigrants To Be Legal.

You Serve The Country, And You Help The President. If The President Wants You To Leave, You Know, You Are Two Corridors Down.

This Is... One Of The Great Tragedies Of The Bush Administration. The More Successful They’ve Been At Intercepting And Stopping Bad Guys, The Less Proof There Is That We’re In Danger... It’s Almost Like They Should Every Once In A While Have Allowed An Attack To Get Through Just To Remind Us.

Iran - The World's Leading Sponsor Of Terrorism - Is Close To Having Nuclear Weapons.

The Time Has Come To Tell The Truth About The Corruption Of The Government Employee Unions In This Country.

Without Jimmy Carter We Might Not Have Gotten Ronald Reagan, Without Ronald Reagan There Would Probably Still Be A Soviet Union.

In Every Election In American History Both Parties Have Their Cliches. The Party That Has The Cliches That Ring True Wins.

If A Bunch Of Republicans Are Too Stiff- Necked, Too Proud, Or In Some Cases Too Committed To The Old Order, After The Election, I Think They're Going To Be Very Sobered By Their Position.

Change Is Healthy And Useful. It Has To Be Fought For Most Of The Time. It's Not Inevitable. It Takes Real Leadership And Real Effort. But I Think It's Really Important Not To Take Yourself Too Seriously. Dwight Eisenhower Used To Have A Rule That You Should Always Take Your Job Seriously But Not Yourself.

You Can't Talk About Attacking Or Assassinating The President Of The United States And You Shouldn't Be Able To.

Focus On Prevention; Would Save $14b With Diabetes.

White Man Racist Nominee Would Be Forced To Withdraw. Latina Woman Racist Should Also Withdraw.

This Is A Serious Problem That Will Lead To A Serious Debate About The First Amendment.

Donald Trump Has To Be Donald Trump. And The Country Will Organize Itself Around Who He Is.

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.

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

Centralized Health Dictatorship.

Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less.

Opposing Taxes Is A Key Conservative Value.

Donald Trump Really Is Who He Is, And I Think, For Example, He'll Probably Tweet His Entire Life - And That's A Fact. I Just Hope People Get Over It.

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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.

Hillary Clinton Is Lying Again And Again.

Again And Again

Elected On Anti-corruption Platform In 1978.

Can We Drop A Little Bit Of The Pious Baloney? The Fact Is, You Ran In '94 And Lost. That's Why You Weren't Serving In The Senate With Rick Santorum. The Fact Is, You Had A Very Bad Re-election Rating, You Dropped Out Of Office, You Had Been Out Of State For Something Like 200 Days Preparing To Run For President. You Didn't Have This Interlude Of Citizenship While You Thought About What You Do. You Were Running For President While You Were Governor.

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.

People Like Me Are What Stand Between Us And Auschwitz.

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.

The Aclu Is An Organization With A Long And Distinguished History Of Fighting To Protect Freedom Of Speech. On The Other Hand, In Recent Years, It Has Carried Its Mandate To Ever More Eccentric And Often Highly Destructive Lengths. While Is May Have Been Perfectly Honorable For Dukakis To Belong To The Aclu, It Was Equally Legitimate For Bush To Attack Him For It. And With What Enormous Relish He Did The Job!

My Strength And My Weakness Is That I See Normally Impersonal Events Vividly And Personally.

Imagine A Judicial Nominee Said 'my Experience As A White Man Makes Me Better Than A Latina Woman.' Wouldn't They Have To Withdraw? New Racism Is No Better Than Old Racism.

Authorize The Exploration Of Proven Energy Reserves To Reduce Our Dependence On Foreign Energy Sources From Unstable Countries And Reduce Regulatory Barriers.

Now, We Don't Get Rid Of It In Round One Because We Don't Think That That's Politically Smart, And We Don't Think That's The Right Way To Go Through A Transition. But We Believe It's Going To Wither On The Vine Because We Think People Are Voluntarily Going To Leave It - Voluntarily.

Donald Trump Has A Compulsion To Counterattack And Is Very Pugnacious.

Leadership Matters And Solving Things Before A Crisis Is Important.

I'm Against Obamacare, Which Is Imposing Radical Change, And I Would Be Against A Conservative Imposing Radical Change.... I Don't Think Right-wing Social Engineering Is Any More Desirable Than Left-wing Social Engineering... I Don't Think Imposing Radical Change From The Right Or The Left Is A Very Good Way For A Free Society To Operate.

Our Rights Come From Our Creator And It Is Impossible To Define America If You Do Not Talk In Public About Where Your Rights Come From.

Criminals Thrive On Society's Understanding.

When A Court Goes Too Far, It Actually Weakens Our Respect For Judicial Institutions.

When We Have 13,000 Americans Living On The Moon, They Can Petition To Become A State.

So I'd Be Quite Happy To Have A Three-hour Lincoln/douglas Style Debate With Barack Obama. I'd Let Him Use A Teleprompter. I'll Just Rely On Knowledge. We'll Do Fine.

I Read Men Who Hate Women And The Women Who Love Them And I Found Frightening Pieces That Related To…my Own Life.

We Have To Rethink, How Do We Get A Complete 360-degree Understanding Of The Patient?

All Of Us Have A Responsibility To Help Pay For Health Care.

It Is Time To Know More About Would-be Terrorists, To Profile For Terrorists And To Actively Discriminate Based On Suspicious Terrorist Information.

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