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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.

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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.

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[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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

The Vast Majority Of My Time Is Traveling And Talking About The Issues. It Isn't Really Calling And Asking For Money.

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.

, 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.

Congress Shall Pass No Law That Exempts Themselves!

Roll Back Federal Spending To 2008 Levels.

Federal Spending

Some People Say I Chastise The Republican Party Too Much.

This Whole Sort Of 'war On Women' Sort Of Thing, I'm Scratching My Head Because If There Was A War On Women, I Think They Won.

Really, While Gas Is An Awful Thing To Watch - The Death Is Painful - To Even Watch These Deaths - It's Also Bad To Die From A Bullet, A Hand Grenade, Or A Machete.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Constitution Was Not Written To Restrain The Citizen's Behavior, It Was Writtne To Restrain The Government's Behavior.

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.

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.

Because Republicans Believe That The Federal Government Is Limited In Its Function-some Have Concluded That Republicans Are Somehow Inherently Insensitive To Minority Rights. Nothing Could Be Further From The Truth.

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 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.

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

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

A Free Society Will Abide Unofficial, Private Discrimination, Even When That Means Allowing Hate-filled Groups To Exclude People Based On The Color Of Their Skin.

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

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

I Think 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.

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.

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.

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.

What I've Always Said Is That I'm Opposed To Institutional Racism, And I Would've, Had I've Been Alive At The Time, I Think, Had The Courage To March With Martin Luther King To Overturn Institutional Racism, And I See No Place In Our Society For Institutional Racism.

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!

You Either Believe In The Constitution, Or You Don't.

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.

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

Out Of Regime Change You Get Chaos. From The Chaos You Have Seen Repeatedly The Rise Of Radical Islam. So We Get This Profession Of, Oh, My Goodness, They Want To Do Something About Terrorism And Yet They're The Problem Because They Allow Terrorism To Arise Out Of That Chaos.

I Need To Be Very Careful About Going On Certain Networks That Seem To Have A Bias.

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.

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

Every Gun Regulation That President [barack] Obama Has Advocated For, California Has Already. And It Didn't Stop Terrorism.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

People Who Want To Come To This Country Don't Have Constitutional Rights. Once They Get Here, They Do. But Coming Here Is Not A Constitutional Right. So With Do, As A Nation, Have The Ability And Should Have The Ability To Decide Who Comes Here And When They Come Here.

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.

We Have A Lot Of Politicians Who Have Really Small Brains And Really Big Hearts.

So If We Announce We're Going To Have A No-fly Zone, And Others Have Said This. Hillary Clinton Is Also For It. It Is A Recipe For Disaster. It's A Recipe For World War Iii. We Need To Confront Russia From A Position Of Strength, But We Don't Need To Confront Russia From A Point Of Recklessness That Would Lead To War.

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 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.

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.'

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

I'm Being Unfairly Targeted By A Bunch Of Hacks And Haters.

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

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.

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 Someone Has Ebola At A Cocktail Party They're Contagious And You Can Catch It From Them.

If You Give Up Your Rights Now, Don’t Expect To Get Them Back.

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.

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

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.

In 1997, I, Along With 200 Other Young Ophthalmologists Formed The National Board Of Ophthalmology To Protest The American Board Of Ophthalmology's Decision To Grandfather In The Older Ophthalmologists And Not Require Them To Recertify.

Do You Hate Poor People Or Do You Just Hate Poor People With Jobs?

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

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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

Perhaps It Is Time To Be More Careful What We Ask Government To Do, And Where We Allow It To Become Part Of Our Lives.

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 We're Actually Using The Constitutional Tools That We Have In An Appropriate Fashion.

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 If We Ban Certain Religions, If We Censor The Internet, I Think That At That Point The Terrorists Will Have Won.

Freedom Of Speech

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I Think Saudi Arabia Often Finances Radical Islam And The Teaching Of Hatred To The West And Hatred Of Americans. I Think It Is Important That We Know That. It's Important That We Know That There Is A Threat Within And A Threat Without. I Think We Can Stop It With More Aggressive Use Of Actual Constitutional Tools.

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

Are You So Afraid That You Are Willing To Trade Your Freedom For Security?

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.

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

I Call Myself A Constitutional Conservative.

Bipartisanship Is Not What Is Missing In Washington. Common Sense Is.

There Are Still People - The Majority On The Stage, They Want To Topple [bashar] Assad. And Then There Will Be Chaos, And I Think Isis Will Then Be In Charge Of Syria.

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.

We Don't Have Enough Money To Rebuild Our Own Country If We're Rebuilding Everyone Else's Countries.

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

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.

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?'

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?

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.

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

I Think There Is Some Overreach In The Sense That The Epa Now Says: If Congress Doesn't Pass Greenhouse Emissions Regulations Or Testing, We'll Simply Do It On Our Own. I Think That's An Arrogance Of A Regulatory Body Run Amok.

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.

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.

We Have To Think Before We Act.

What Gets Lost Is That The Republican Party Has Always Been The Party Of Civil Rights And Voting Rights.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The Democrats Promised Equalizing Outcomes Through Unlimited Federal Assistance While Republicans Offered Something That Seemed Less Tangible - The Promise Of Equalizing Opportunity Through Free Markets.

I'm A Reagan Conservative. Reagan Did Negotiate With The Soviets. But You Have To Negotiate From A Position Of Strength.

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

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.

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

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 Really Think That Discrimination And Racism Is A Horrible Thing. And I Don't Want Any Form Of It In Our Government, In Our Public Sphere.

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

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.

There Is Often Variations Of Evil On Both Sides Of The War. What We Have To Decide Is Whether Or Not Regime Change Is A Good Idea. It's What The Neoconservatives Have Wanted. It's What The Vast Majority Of Those On The Stage Want.

I Think My Dad Has Helped Me Tremendously.

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

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.

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.

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

Separation Of Powers

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

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

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

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

Someone Is An Ignoramus Who Would Say That, 'oh, We Had Three Hurricanes This Year. This Proves That Somehow The Climate Is Warming.' The Earth Is 4.5 Billion Years Old, And You're Going To Say That We Had Four Hurricanes And So It Proves A Theory?

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.

I Hate That Mosul Is Falling, But I Also Think That For 10 Years We Have Supplied The Iraqis And They Can't Stand Up And Do Anything To Defend Their Country, And It Is All Up To Us?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

We Still Need To Secure Our Southern Border. The Other Thing I Would Say Is We Need To Secure Who Visits Us In The Country.

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.

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

I Would Have Never Released The Sanctions [for Iran] Before There Was Consistent Evidence Of Compliance.

40 Percent Of People Who Come To Visit America On A Visa Overstay Their Visa And We Have No Idea Where They Are. On 9/11, At Least 2 Of The Hijackers Were Here On Visa. They Were Traveling Back And Forth To The Middle East. And We Really Had No Idea Where They Were Or What They Were Doing. And They Were Overstaying Their Visa. So There Are Problems I Think In The Immigration System That Need To Be Fixed For Our Safety.

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

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.

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'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.

We Don't Need Bigger Government. We Need To Shrink The Size Of Government.

Washington Is Horribly Broken. We Are Encountering A Day Of Reckoning And This Movement, This Tea Party Movement, Is A Message To Washington That We're Unhappy And That We Want Things Done Differently.

On Vague Wording Of Drone Strike Criteria: “are You Going To Just Drop A Hellfire Missile On Jane Fonda? Are You Going To Drop A Missile On Kent State? That’s Gobbledygook.

As Long As I Sit At Henry Clay's Desk, I Will Remember His Lifelong Desire To Forge Agreement, But I Will Also Keep Close To My Heart The Principled Stand Of His Cousin, Cassius Clay, Who Refused To Forsake The Life Of Any Human, Simply To Find Agreement.

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

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

Our Legislative Victory - An End To Earmarks.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

African American

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.

I Would Argue That The Objective Evidence Shows That Big Government Is Not A Friend To African Americans.

African American

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 Think Women Have Come A Long Way. Women Are In Positions Not Because They're Women, They're In Positions Because They're Intelligent And They Should Be Equal To Their Counterparts And Treated Equally.

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.

As Commander-in-chief, I Will Do Whatever It Takes To Defend America. But In Defending America, We Cannot Lose What America Stands For.

Whatever It Takes

The Main Thing I Say On War Is That We Need To Obey The Law And Formally Declare War.

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

I Would Pay To Have Those Adjudications Enrolled Into The Federal Background System So We Could Detect People Who Are Mentally Ill Before They Buy A Gun. That Is A Real Problem.

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."

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

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.

The Fourth Amendment Was What We Fought The Revolution Over!

Fourth Amendment

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...

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

I'm Not Someone Who's Sort Of Still Trying To Figure Out What I Believe In.

If You're White And You're Rich In The Usa, If You Get Busted For Drugs, You Get A Good Attorney, And You In All Likelihood Serve No Time. But If You're Poor, Black, Hispanic, Or Poor And White For That Matter, You Can Get Put In Jail.

I Would Have Handled It Differently Than The Mayor Of Baltimore, That's For Sure. I Think It's A Mistake To Say, Hey, Guys, You Can Pillage The City For A While And We'll Let That Go, And We'll Be Sort Of Standing Back. I Think It's Also Important To Know Some Of The Underlying Causes Of Why There's Unease In Our Country.

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.

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