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This Is The Free Enterprise System. The Only Place In The World That I Can Recall Where Companies Never Failed Was The Old Soviet Union. This Is What Investors Do In Free Enterprise And Capitalism System. [...[ And, Yes, Free Enterprise System Can Be Cruel. But The Problem With This Administration Is That Small Businesses Are The One Who Had Suffered The Most, The Kind That Need Investors, The Kinds That Don't Need The Hundreds Of Pages, Thousands Of Pages Of Regulations That Continue To Plague Them And Have Them Hold Back On The Hiring Investment.

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This Is The Free Enterprise System. The Only Place In The World That I Can Recall Where Companies Never Failed Was The Old Soviet Union. This Is What Investors Do In Free Enterprise And Capitalism System. [...[ And, Yes, Free Enterprise System Can Be Cruel. But The Problem With This Administration Is That Small Businesses Are The One Who Had Suffered The Most, The Kind That Need Investors, The Kinds That Don't Need The Hundreds Of Pages, Thousands Of Pages Of Regulations That Continue To Plague Them And Have Them Hold Back On The Hiring Investment.

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I 'don't See How It Matters' That I Don't Know The Price Of Gas.

I Think We've Got To Make A Case That I'm Ready, That I Put My Country First, And It's Time To Put Aside Partisan Rancor And Differences And Work Together For The Country And That I Can Create Jobs And Restore Our Economy And Keep Our Country Safe.

Working Together

I Guarantee You, As President Of The United States, I Know How To Heal The Wounds Of War, I Know How To Deal With Our Adversaries, And I Know How To Deal With Our Friends.

I Watch Sports All The Time. My Wife Cindy Says I Would Watch The Thumb-suckers Play The Bed-wetters. I Watch All Sports And I Enjoy All Sports. It's Been Great Fun In My Life And A Great Diversion.

The United States Of American Business Pays The Second-highest Business Taxes In The World, 35 Percent. Ireland Pays 11 Percent. Now, If You're A Business Person, And You Can Locate Any Place In The World, Then, Obviously, If You Go To The Country Where It's 11 Percent Tax Versus 35 Percent, You're Going To Be Able To Create Jobs, Increase Your Business, Make More Investment, Et Cetera. I Want To Cut That Business Tax. I Want To Cut It So That Businesses Will Remain In The United States Of America And Create Jobs.

Inexperience Because Of (president Barack) Obama's Inexperience.look That Would Be One Of The Challenges.

We Have To Love Our Freedom, Not Just For The Private Opportunities It Provides, But For The Goodness It Makes Possible.

There Is No Confidence In The Arab World Today In The United States Of America.

If The United States Had Not Intervened In Afghanistan, Then Obviously, We Would Have Then Allowed The Attacks Of 9/11 To Go Unanswered. I Don't Think Most Of Americans Wanted That To Happen.

While I Support A More Comprehensive Bill And Hope A More Extensive Package Will Eventually Past The Senate, I Also Am A Realist And Know That We Must Not Let The Perfect Bill Be The Enemy Of Real Reform.

Just By Coincidence, Senator Teddy Kennedy And I, In The Last Couple Of Days, After Several Months Of Negotiations, Have Reached An Agreement For An Immigration Proposal That We Will Be Putting Out Next Week, ... Our Proposal Is Along The Lines Of Make Them Pay A Fine Of A Couple Thousand Dollars, Make Them Work For Three Years, And After Three Years They Can Get In The Back Of The Line For A Green Card And Then Eventually Become Citizens.

As You Know, There Are Al Qaeda Operatives That Are Taken Back Into Iran, Given Training As Leaders, And They’re Moving Back Into Iraq.

Only A Fool Or A Fraud Talks Tough Or Romantically About War.

The Day That The Leadership Of The Military Comes To Me And Says, "senator, We Ought To Change The Policy," Then I Think We Ought To Consider Seriously Changing It.

Everybody Says That They're Against The Special Interests. I'm The Only One The Special Interests Don't Give Any Money To.

We Still Have A Long Way To Go Before We Can Declare America Safe, And That Means Doing A Better Job Along Our Borders, As Well.

I Spent Most Of My Time Wrestling Looking Up At The Lights.

I Am All In Favor Of Pay Equity For Women, But This Kind Of Legislation, As Is Typical Of What's Being Proposed By My Friends On The Other Side Of The Aisle, Opens Us Up To Lawsuits For All Kinds Of Problems.

We Make The Future Better Than The Past. We Don't Hide From History. We Make History.

I Have Had A Strong And A Long Relationship On National Security, I've Been Involved In Every National Crisis That This Nation Has Faced Since Beirut, I Understand The Issues, I Understand And Appreciate The Enormity Of The Challenge We Face From Radical Islamic Extremism. I Am Prepared. I Am Prepared. I Need No On-the-job Training. I Wasn't A Mayor For A Short Period Of Time. I Wasn't A Governor For A Short Period Of Time.

I've Seen Enough Killing In My Life. I Know How Precious Human Life Is And I Don't Need A Lecture From You.

And We Are In A Strange Conundrum. You Can Kill An American Citizen Overseas. But According To This Administration, If You Capture Him In The United States, They've Got To Be Read Their Miranda Rights.

At No Time Have I Ever Done Anything That Would Betray The Public Trust.

Sarah Palin Knows More About Energy Than Probably Anyone Else In The United States Of America.

The Way You Have Bipartisan Negotiations, You Sit Down Across The Table, As We Did With Ted Kennedy, As I've Done With Many Other Members, And You Say, 'ok, Here's What I Want, Here's What You Want. We'll Adhere To Your Principles, But We'll Make Concessions.'

I Know The Veterans. I Know Them Well. And I Know That They Know That I'll Take Care Of Them. And I've Been Proud Of Their Support And Their Recognition Of My Service To The Veterans.

Iraq Is Now The Central Front In The War Against Al-qaeda.

I Have Said For A Long Time That I Thought The President Would Be Best Served If The Attorney General Resigned So I Think It's The Right Thing To Do.

There Is Always An Element Of Realpolitik That Has To Be Present In The Conduct Of Any Nation's National Security Affairs. At The Same Time, We Have To Also Have A Balance Between Realpolitik And Wilsonian Principles Of Freedom And Democracy And Human Rights. And Maintaining That Balance Is The Greatest Challenge That We In The West, Including The Federal Republic Of Germany, Have To Face Because It's Many Times A Very Difficult Decision-making Process.

America Has The Strongest, Best-trained, Best-led Military Force In The World, And We Have Failed Them. Our Military Today Is Struggling In Virtually Every Category That Measures Preparedness.

I Am The Son And Grandson Of Navy Admirals, And I Was Born Into America's Service. It Wasn't Until I Was Deprived Of Her Company That I Fell In Love With America.

I'm A Proud Reagan Conservative.

Arizona May Be The Only State In America Where Mothers Don't Tell Their Children That Someday, They Can Grow Up And Be President Of The United States.

God May Have Mercy, But We Won't.

I, 100 Percent Don't Think That's Where The American People At, Because When There's Viral Pictures As A Baby Is In Aleppo With, You Know, Rubble All Over Them Going Viral, And Then There Are Celebrities Tweeting Why Haven't We Done Nothing About This? And Like, Oh, There Are Actually Many People For Years Who've Been Trying To Send Aid Then And This President Won't Let Us.

I Didn't Decide To Run For President To Start A National Crusade For The Political Reforms I Believed In, Or To Run A Campaign As If It Were Some Grand Act Of Patriotism. In Truth, I Wanted To Be President Because It Had Become My Ambition To Be President.

(obama) Really Has No Experience Or Knowledge Or Judgment About The Issue Of Iraq And He Has Wanted To Surrender For A Long Time.

Sooner Or Later, People Are Going To Figure Out If All You Run Is Negative Attack Ads You Don’t Have Much Of A Vision For The Future Or You’re Not Ready To Articulate It.

Our Nation Has Both An Obligation And Self-interest In Facing Head-on The Serious Environmental, Economic And National Security Threat Posed By Global Warming.

The Benefit Of An Open Town Hall Meeting Is One That You Get To Hear A Lot Of Different Views, And Two It Has Credibility.

What Was Fascinating To Me, Is That She [hillary Clinton] Still Cannot Answer Eloquently, Answers About Her E-mails, She Still Can't Explains To Me Why She's Not A Third Term Of [barack] Obama.

When We're Talking About A Trillion Dollars Of Taxpayer Money, "trust Me" Just Isn't Good Enough.

It's A Tough Path To Citizenship. You've Got To Pay Back Taxes. You've Got To Learn English. You've Got To Have A Clear Record. You've Got To Get To The Back Of The Line Behind Other People Who Have Come Here Legally Or Even Waiting Legally.

What If There's Another Terrorist Attack? I Cringe At The Ideas Of Our Enemies Watching This, Knowing Much Like The President We Have Now. You Can Do Anything You Want, You Can Jerk Us Around, You Can Harass Our Naval Ships The Way Iran Is Doing Right Now, And We're Not Going To Do Anything. We're Not Going To React.

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I Think [social Media] Is Fundamentally Restructuring The Whole Nature Of Information And How It's Expressed In America.

Neither Party Should Be Defined By Pandering To The Outer Reaches Of American Politics And The Agents Of Intolerance, Whether They Be Louis Farrakhan And Al Sharpton On The Left, Or Pat Robertson Or Jerry Falwell On The Right.

But I'm Still A Work In Progress. My Mother Calls Me Quite Frequently With Various Critiques Of My Performance On Tv And Other Public Events. She's Usually Pretty Severe With Her Comments.

The Facts Are Facts And Records Are Records.

Katrina Did Not Declare A Truce On Iraq.

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Stocks Have Tanked. Shouldn't You Have Asked For That Money Back?

We Have A Lot Of Work To Do And I‘m Afraid That It‘s A Very Hard Struggle, Particularly Given The Situation On The Iraq/pakistan Border.

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I Will Follow Osama Bin Laden To The Gates Of Hell.

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The Issue Of Economics Is Not Something I've Understood As Well As I Should. I've Got Greenspan's Book.

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I'm Not Sure, If I Were President Clinton, I Wouldn't Want To Be Pardoned For Something That I Believed That I Didn't Do.

The 'main Street' Retailers ... See Customers Come To The Store To Locate Items ... Only To Leave And Order The Items Over The Internet Just To Escape The Sales Tax.

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The Abuse Of Prisoners Hurts America's Cause In The War On Terror, Endangers Us Service Members Who Might Be Captured By The Enemy, And Is Anathema To The Values Americans Have Held Dear For Generations.

While Secretary Rumsfeld And I Have Had Our Differences, He Deserves Americans' Respect And Gratitude For His Many Years Of Public Service.

I Don't Think It's Bribery; I Think It's Extortion. Bribery, You Know, Is When The Person That's Giving The Money Does It Voluntarily. What It Is In Washington Is Extortion Because They All Ask For The Money.

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Fear Is The Opportunity For Courage, Not Proof Of Cowardice.

My Hero Is A Guy Named Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt Used To Say, Walk Softly, Talk Softly But Carry A Big Stick.

Both Candidates In This Election [2004] Pledge To End This War And Bring Our Troops Home. The Great Difference - The Great Difference Is That I Intend To Win It First.

I Was An Addict. That's Why, ... I Tell You, Addiction Is A Very Cunning Enemy.

We Send Cruise Missiles And Then We Think Everything's All Right Or We Try To Bring Them To Trial. My Friends, This Time They've Gone Too Far. This Time We're Serious. This Time We Won't Quit Until They Are Gone, Completely Gone From The Face Of The Earth

The President(obama) Comparing Him To A Kid In The Back Of A Classroom, I Think, Is Very Indicative Of The President's Lack Of Appreciation Of Who Vladimir Putin Is. He's An Old Kgb Colonel That Has No Illusions About Our Relationship, Does Not Care About A Relationship With The United States, Continues To Oppress His People, Continues To Act In An Autocratic Fashion.

This Kind Of Horror Has Become All Too Familiar To Us. As Parents, Cindy And I Offer Our Prayers To The Memory Of The Slain Children And Ask That God Ease The Pain Of Littleton's Suffering Families, ... The Students Of Columbine High School And Children Everywhere Have A Basic Right To Learn In An Environment Free Of Fear And Violence. We Must Redouble Our Efforts To See That This Is A Reality.

There Are Neighborhoods In Baghdad Where You And I Could Walk Through Those Neighborhoods Today.

I Would Never Want To See Myself Viewed As Beating The Drums Of War, ... But I Would Rather Live With That Image Than Look Into The Mirror And See A Member Of Congress Who Failed To Do His Duty.

Senator Obama Voted Against Justice Breyer And Justice Roberts On The Grounds That They Didn't Meet His Ideological Standards. That's Not The Way We Should Judge These Nominees. Elections Have Consequences.

How Does It Make Sense To Remove An Option, To Tell Your Enemy Before You Go Into A Conflict, That You Will Not Exercise Whatever Options Are Necessary In Order To Achieve Victory?

Presidential Ambition Is A Disease That Can Only Be Cured By Embalming Fluid.

We Have Many Advantages In The Fight Against Global Warming, But Time Is Not One Of Them. Instead Of Idly Debating The Precise Extent Of Global Warming, Or The Precise Timeline Of Global Warming, We Need To Deal With The Central Facts Of Rising Temperatures, Rising Waters, And All The Endless Troubles That Global Warming Will Bring. We Stand Warned By Serious And Credible Scientists Across The World That Time Is Short And The Dangers Are Great. The Most Relevant Question Now Is Whether Our Own Government Is Equal To The Challenge.

After All This Time And All This, Quote, "experience," How Is She [hillary Clinton] Not Better At This [military]?

[vladimir] Putin Supporting Bashar Al-assad, Helping With The Syrian Refugee Crisis And, I Think For Any Republican, He [donald Trump] Has Got To Stop Saying This, Because I Was With Him. I Was With Him And He Said That, It Was Like, I'm Out. I'm Out. It's Too Crazy.

The Day That I Can Land At The Airport In Baghdad And Ride In An Unarmed Car Down The Highway To The Green Zone Is The Day That I'll Start Considering Withdrawals From Iraq.

I Have A Fundamental Belief In The Goodness And Strength Of The American Worker. And The American Worker Is The Most Productive, The Most Innovative. America Is Still The Greatest Producer, Exporter And Importer. I Have A Fundamental Belief In The United States Of America. And I Still Believe, Under The Right Leadership, Our Best Days Are Ahead Of Us.

Vladimir Putin Is A War Criminal.

I Am Learning To Get Online Myself, And I Will Have That Down Fairly Soon, Getting On Myself. I Don’t Expect To Be A Great Communicator, I Don’t Expect To Set Up My Own Blog, But I Am Becoming Computer Literate To The Point Where I Can Get The Information That I Need.

I'm Going To Be Honest: I Know A Lot Less About Economics Than I Do About Military And Foreign Policy Issues. I Still Need To Be Educated.

I Voted For Justice Breyer And Justice Ginsburg. Not Because I Agreed With Their Ideology, But Because I Thought They Were Qualified And That Elections Have Consequences When Presidents Are Nominated.

It's A Matter Of Fact That Senator Obama Has Spent More Money On Negative Ads Than Any Political Campaign In History.

I Am Proud To Be A Conservative ... But I Am Also Proud Throughout My Life To Have Attracted The Support And The Love And Affection Of People From All Over America And All Parts Of It.

Many Of The Countries Outpacing The United States In The Deployment Of High Speed Internet Services, Including Canada, Japan And South Korea, Have Successfully Combined Municipal Systems With Privately Deployed Networks To Wire Their Countries, .. As A Country, We Cannot Afford To Cut Off Any Successful Strategy If We Want To Remain Internationally Competitive.

We Should Be I Hope Finally Realizing What Vladimir Putin Is. He's An Old Colonel, Kgb, Apparatchik, And He Dreams Of The Restoration Of The Russian Empire.

The Question Is Not Whether You Would Like To Be President Or Not. The Question Is: Do You Think You Can Win And Do You Want To Run? And None Of Those Are Clear To Me.

My Preference Would Be To Remain In The Senate, ... But You Can't Say I Would Refuse To Serve In One Of Those (cabinet) Capacities. It's Not The Same As Vice President.

Thanks To General Petraeus, Our Leadership And The Sacrifice Of Brave Young Americans. To Deny That Their Sacrifice Didn't Make Possible The Success Of The Surge In Iraq, I Think Does A Great Disservice...the Progress Has Been Immense.

The Problem Is That Most Members Of Congress Don’t Pay Attention To What’s Going On.

We've Got To Start Also Holding People Accountable, And We've Got To Reward People Who Succeed. But Somehow In Washington Today - And I'm Afraid On Wall Street - Greed Is Rewarded, Excess Is Rewarded, And Corruption - Or Certainly Failure To Carry Out Our Responsibility Is Rewarded.

It Is Because I Owe America More Than She Has Ever Owed Me That I Am A Candidate For President To The United States.

Why Is Chelsea Clinton So Ugly? Because Her Father Is Janet Reno.

There's A Whole Generation That's Retiring. It Is Unconscionable That The Average Salary Of A Lawyer Is $79,000 A Year And The Average Salary Of A Teacher Is $39,000 A Year.

Americans Have Got To Understand That We Are Paying Present-day Retirees With The Taxes Paid By Young Workers In America Today. And That's A Disgrace. It's An Absolute Disgrace And It's Got To Be Fixed.

Congress And The American People Have Good Reason To Fear That We Are Heading Toward Another Permanent Garrison Of Americans In A Balkan Country Where Our Mission Is Confused, And Our Exit Strategy A Complete Mystery.

On My Honor, I Swear To You, That From My First Day In Office To The Last Breath I Draw, I Will Do Everything In My Power To Make You Proud Of Your Government.

Our Political Differences, Now Matter How Sharply They Are Debated, Are Really Quite Narrow In Comparison To The Remarkably Durable National Consensus On Our Founding Convictions.

Political Differences

Our Enemies Didn't Adhere To The Geneva Convention. Many Of My Comrades Were Subjected To Very Cruel, Very Inhumane And Degrading Treatment, A Few Of Them Even Unto Death. But Every One Of Us - Every Single One Of Us - Knew And Took Great Strength From The Belief That We Were Different From Our Enemies, That We Were Better Than Them, That We, If The Roles Were Reversed, Would Not Disgrace Ourselves By Committing Or Countenancing Such Mistreatment Of Them.

Each Middle East Country Has Their Own Unique Kinds Of Challenges; But The Fundamentals, The Desire For Democracy And Freely Elected Governments Is A Common Thread Throughout.

Even In This Room Full Of Proud Manhattan Democrats. I Can't Shake That Feeling That Some People Here Are Pulling For Me ... I'm Delighted To See You Here Tonight, Hillary.

I Know What War's Like. I Know What Scene's Like.

The Role Of The Vice President Is To Break Ties In The Senate And Inquire Daily Into The Health Of The President.

Just Stop At One Of These Construction Sites And Look And See Who Those Workers Are. They're All Hispanic ... And I Bet You They're Illegal.

Construction Sites

We Need Not Risk Our National Honor To Prevail In This Or Any War.

I'm Very Optimistic About My Home State Of Arizona...

We Got Results That Would Not Have Been Possible Without A Negotiating Partner Like Joe Biden.

For Decades We Have Been Living Lives Of Abundance, With Little Regard For Our Natural Resources Or Global Health. But We Are Now Facing Hard Choices In Our Energy Policy. Future Generations - My Children And Grandchildren, Along With Yours - Will Have To Live With The Decisions We Make Today. And So It Is Time For Us To Make Some Tough And - Hopefully - Smart Choices Regarding Our Energy Use And Production Before It Is Too Late.

Thank God For Our Form Of Government. The Media Won't Let There Be Any Cover-up.

It's A Fundamental Aspect Of The Free Enterprise System And Economics: If There's No Penalty Associated With Increased Costs, Why Not Lay On Increased Costs?

I Don’t E-mail, I’ve Never Felt The Particular Need To E-mail.

Some Urge We Do Nothing Because We Can't Be Certain How Bad The (climate) Problem Might Become Or They Presume The Worst Effects Are Most Likely To Occur In Our Grandchildren's Lifetime. I'm A Proud Conservative, And I Reject That Kind Of Live-for-today, 'me Generation,' Attitude. It Is Unworthy Of Us And Incompatible With Our Reputation As Visionaries And Problem Solvers. Americans Have Never Feared Change. We Make Change Work For Us.

Under My Plan, 85 Percent Of America Will Pay No Tax Or Have A Flat Tax At Our Lowest Rate Of 15 Percent.

I Am Proud To Do So For I Know That By Supporting George W. Bush, I Serve My Country Well.

Democrats Proposing Failure In Iraq By Withdrawing.

I Spent Five And A Half Years In Prison. The Worst Part Was Coming Home And Finding Out Green Acres Had Been Cancelled. What The Hell Was I Fighting For?

Anybody Who Believes The Surge Has Not Succeeded, Militarily, Politically And In Most Other Ways, Frankly, Does Not Know The Facts On The Ground.

I Think We Also Ought To Prepare The American Public, By Way Of Informing Them, That Saddam Hussein Has These Weapons, Continues To Attempt To Improve Their Capability, And Would Not Be Reluctant To Export Them To Other Countries. So He Presents A Clear And Present Danger.

You May Have Noticed That Senator Obama’s Supporters Have Been Saying Some Pretty Nasty Things About Western Pennsylvania Lately. And You Know, I Couldn’t Agree With Them More.

Because The People Of New Hampshire Take Their Responsibilities As Citizens Of The Republic Seriously, They Keep It Interesting For Candidates Who, Believe It Or Not, Can Get A Little Tired Of The Mannered, Predictable, And Unimaginative Qualities That Typically Afflict Modern Political Campaigns.

I Intend To Do What I Can, Working With My Congressional Colleagues, Republicans And Democrats, To Help Bring About The Changes To The Practices And Institutions Of Our Democracy That They Want And Deserve.

Our Economy, I Think, Is Still -- The Fundamentals Of Our Economy Are Strong.

I Am Sure That Senator Clinton Would Make A Good President. I Have No Doubt That Senator Clinton Would Make A Good President.

We Are Americans First, Americans Last, Americans Always... Let Us Argue Our Differences. But Remember We Are Not Enemies, But Comrades In A War Against A Real Enemy...

I Believe That We're Going To Find Out That America Made A Lot Of Mistakes Diplomatically, Economically, Militarily, Intel-wise. But, I Also Think We're Going To Find Out The U.s. Has Done A Lot Of Good Things Too.

There's Going To Be Other Wars. I'm Sorry To Tell You, There's Going To Be Other Wars. We Will Never Surrender, But There Will Be Other Wars.

I Can Tell You That I Think America Is Safer Today Than It Was On 9/11. But That Doesn't Mean That We Don't Have A Long Way To Go.

I Say That The United States Of America Is A Unique Experiment In History. I Believe In American Exceptionalism. I Wasn't For Sending Ground Forces Into Libya. It Would Have Been Counterproductive, But We Are An Inspiration To These People. I Know Because I've Looked Them In The Eyes, And They Looked At Me. They Look To America For Inspiration And Leadership.

We Must Be True To Ourselves. And We Must Be True To Others, Whether They Believe We Are Or Not.

Just Because They Broke The Law Doesn't Mean They're Condemned Forever To A Twilight Status. So, I Think That Most Americans, If These People Who Have Come Illegally, As Long As They Pay Back Taxes, Pay A Fine, Learn English And Get Behind Everybody Else, That's A Key Element Of It. And Most Americans Now Realize We Can't Have 11 Million People Sit In The Twilight - The Shadows Of America, Forever.

My Reading Of The Threat From Iran Is That If Iran Acquires Nuclear Weapons, It Is An Existential Threat To The State Of Israel And To Other Countries In The Region Because The Other Countries In The Region Will Feel Compelling Requirement To Acquire Nuclear Weapons As Well. Now We Cannot A Second Holocaust.

As Almost Anyone With War Experience Knows, You're Never Supposed To Show The Enemy What You Won't Do To Win.

Remember The Words Of Chairman Mao: 'it's Always Darkest Before It's Totally Black.'.

[several Candidates Talked Of Problems With The Federal Medicare System, Particularly Concerns About Whether It Would Cover Prescription Drug Costs In The Future.] We're Asking Senior Citizens To Make A Choice Between Their Health And Their Income, ... Medicare Is Probably The Most Difficult Challenge We Face In The Next Century, Because It Has A Lot To Do With Other Things Besides Money.

Parents Are Not The All-knowing, Ideal People We Would Like You To Think We Are. We've Made Wrong Choices Before, And Will Again, Like Everyone Else, .. But Our Mistakes Are Not The Measure Of Our Love For You. You Are That Measure, And How Well You Are Prepared To Make Better Choices Than We Have Made.

America Has Much To Gain In Terms Of Jobs And Trade By Meeting The Growing World Demand For Advanced, Environmentally Sound Technologies.

America's Image Throughout The World Is Very Bad.

I Believe In Evolution. But I Also Believe, When I Hike The Grand Canyon And See It At Sunset, That The Hand Of God Is There Also.

I Say To Our Enemies: We Are Coming. God May Have Mercy On You, But We Won't

The Iranians Have A Lousy Government, So Therefore Their Economy Is Lousy, Even Though They Have Significant Oil Revenues. So I Am Convinced That Together, We Can, With The French, With The British, With The Germans And Other Countries, Democracies Around The World, We Can Affect Iranian Behavior. But Have No Doubt, But Have No Doubt That The Iranians Continue On The Path To The Acquisition Of A Nuclear Weapon. And It Is A Threat Not Only In This Region But Around The World.

We Are An Unfinished Nation.

I Have The Utmost Confidence In General Mattis, General Flynn, General Kelly, Dan Coates. I Couldn't Have Picked A Better Team. And So I'm Confident That Donald Trump Will Listen To Them And Be Guided By Them.

They're All Tied Together: Taxes, Medicare, Social Security, And The Debt. We've Got To Have A Setting Of Priorities, And Looking At It - At Each Of Them As Disconnected, I Think, Doesn't Properly Address These Major Challenges.

I Appreciate The Decision Made By Gov. Brewer To Veto This Legislation. I Hope That We Can Now Move On From This Controversy And Assure The American People That Everyone Is Welcome To Live, Work And Enjoy Our Beautiful State Of Arizona.

Subjecting Prisoners To Abuse Leads To Bad Intelligence, Because Under Torture A Detainee Will Tell His Interrogator Anything To Make The Pain Stop. Second, Mistreatment Of Our Prisoners Endangers U.s. Troops Who Might Be Captured By The Enemy – If Not In This War, Then In The Next. And Third, Prisoner Abuses Exact On Us A Terrible Toll In The War Of Ideas, Because Inevitably These Abuses Become Public.

[i Find It] Impossible [to Imagine] That A Nation Which Is Grounded In Judaeo-christian Principles Would Somehow Select Someone [for President] Who Would Repudiate Those Principles.

In The View Of Everyone, I Am A Viable Candidate And I Should Be On The Ballot.

I Think Conventional Wisdom Is That Time Is Not On Our Side. But There Are A Number Of Members Of Congress Who Have Primaries And When Those Primaries Are Done, They May Be More Inclined To Address The Issue Of Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

You Hear It Every Four Years, ... Scare The Seniors, Scare The Seniors.

As Part Of Social Security Reform, I Believe That Private Savings Accounts Are A Part Of It - Along The Lines That President Bush Proposed.

But Certainly In The Short Term, Or Even The Long Term, I Would Not Support Repeal Of Roe V. Wade, Which Would Then Force X Number Of Women In America To [undergo] Illegal And Dangerous Operations.

I've Been An Imperfect Servant Of My Country For Many Years. But I Have Been Her Servant First, Last And Always. And I've Never Lived A Day, In Good Times Or Bad, That I Didn't Thank God For The Privilege.

All This Money Washing Around Washington And All Of These Contributions Taint All Of Us.

Some Of Us Are More Favorably Disposed Than Others.

What I Don't Know Is What The Unexpected Might Be.

I Don't Know How You Defeat An Insurgency Unless You Have Some Handle On The Number Of People That You Are Facing.

Sen. Obama Is A Decent Person And A Person You Don't Have To Be Scared Of As President Of The United States.

Cindy And I Are Adoptive Parents. We Know What A Treasure And Joy It Is To Have An Adopted Child In Our Lives.

Let's Move Forward To Try To Address The Most Egregious And Outrageous Corrupting Aspect Of Campaigns In America Today And That Is The Incredible Inundation Of Soft Money And Its Pernicious Effects.

To Equate Vladimir Putin And The United States Of America, As Donald Trump Was Asked, You Know, I Guess It Was Bill O'reilly Who Said, "but Putin Is A Killer." And He Basically Said, "so Are We." That Moral Equivalency Is A Contradiction Of Everything The United States Has Ever Stood For In The 20th And 21st Century.

I Am A Republican. I'm Loyal To The Party Of Abraham Lincoln And Theodore Roosevelt. And I Believe That My Party, In Some Ways, Has Strayed From Those Principles, Particularly On The Issue Of Fiscal Discipline.

Iran Launches Monkey Into Space

If You Have A Large Bloc Of Americans Who Believe You're Trying To Keep Their ... Fellow Hispanics Down And Deprive Them Of An Opportunity, Obviously That's Going To Have An Effect...the Republican Party Has Failed To Understand To A Significant Degree The Importance Of This Issue To Our Hispanic Voters. I Think The Trend Will Continue Of Lack Of Support From Hispanic Voters And Also As You Look At The Demographics Of States Like Mine, That Means We Will Go From Republican To Democrat Over Time.

I Think That It Has To Be A Very Humane Approach To This Issue, And We Have To Come Up With Solutions To It. But We Also Have To Do Something About The Drugs That Are Coming Across Our Southern Border That Are Killing Our Kids... I Think There Are Some People Who Want To Leave This Country And Return To The Country They Came From, But Obviously It Requires A Broader Solution That That, And We All Know That.

I Actually Think If The American People Understood What Was Going On Instead Of Just Being Told Tidbits By This Administration, They Would Actually Be A Lot More Supportive Of The Boots On The Ground.

It's Not Social Issues I Care About.

I Think That Decisions Should Rest In The Hands Of The States. I'm A Federalist.

There's One Big Difference Between Me And The Others - I Won't Take Every Last Dime Of The Surplus And Spend It On Tax Cuts That Mostly Benefit The Wealthy. I'll Use The Bulk Of The Surplus To Secure Social Security Far Into The Future To Keep Our Promise To The Greatest Generation.

I Think It's A Very Legitimate Aspect Of American Life To Criticize And To Disagree And To Debate. But I Want To Say I Think It's A Lie To Say That The President Lied To The American People. I Sat On The Robb-silverman Commission. I Saw Many, Many Analysts That Came Before That Committee. I Asked Every One Of Them-i Said, 'did-were You Ever Pressured Politically Or Any Other Way To Change Your Analysis Of The Situation As You Saw?' Every One Of Them Said No.

I Think My Major Challenge, Very Frankly, Is To Maintain The Traction, ... I've Seen Many Campaigns Here In The State Of New Hampshire Look Good For A While, And Then The Air Comes Out Of The Balloon.

Excessive Administration Secrecy... Feeds Conspiracy Theories And Reduces The Public's Confidence In Government.

Immigration And Border Security Remain Critical Issues That I Am Committed To Addressing This Year. The Good News Is That Illegal Immigration Is At An All-time Low, Making Now The Time To Dedicate The Needed Technology And Resources To Finally Secure The Border For Good. As Border Security Improves, I Look Forward To Working In A Bipartisan Manner To Fix Our Broken Immigration System And Address The Millions Of People Living In The United States Outside Of Legal Status.

If Money Is Free Speech, The Big Interests Are Sitting In Front With Megaphones And The Average Citizens Are Sitting In The Back.

Why Am I Running For President? Well, My Wife, Cindy, Says It Is Because I Sustainedseveral Severe Blows To The Head In Prison Camp.

You Know That Old Beach Boys Song, Bomb Iran? Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran.

The Cable Industry Has Risen To New Heights In Their Apparent Willingness And Ability To Gouge The American Consumer. Cable Rates [have] Increased An Unbelievable Five-and-a-half Times Faster Than Inflation.

Teachers Don't Need As Much As $140,000 A Year, ... But, Perhaps Some Senators Don't Need $140,000 A Year Either.

I Will Conduct A Respectful Debate. Now, It Will Be Dispirited -- It Will Be Spirited -- Because There Are Stark Differences. I Am A Proud Conservative, Liberal Republica-- Conservative Republican...hello? Easy There.

In California, It's Hard To Buy All The Media, No Matter How Much Money You Raise Or Spend, Because It's Such A Huge State.

That's Give [donald Trump] So Much Attention. And It's So Funny. There Actually Have Conflicting Opinions On Women In Combat, In The Military. So They Have All The Issues That Stake. I'm More Concerned With The Va Than Anything Else.

I Would Like To Mention That A Couple Days Ago Senator Obama Was Out In Ohio And He Had An Encounter With A Guy Who's A Plumber, His Name Is Joe Wurzelbacher.

So Ahmadinejad Wants To Be The First Iranian In Space - Wasn't He There Just Last Week? 'iran Launches Monkey Into Space.'

Being Chairman Of The Senate Commerce Committee Is Like Being A Mosquito In A Nudist Colony.

Hillary [clinton] Saying We're Never Going To Put Boots On The Ground In Iraq, We Never Going To Put Boots On The Ground In Syria Petrified Me, Simply Because, Why - What If This Continues Despite Out Of Control.

I Take A Backseat To No One In My Affection, Respect And Devotion To Veterans. And I Will Not Accept From Senator Obama, Who Did Not Feel It Was His Responsibility To Serve Our Country In Uniform, Any Lectures On My Regard For Those Who Did.

As Part Of My Misspent Youth, I Spent Too Much Time In The Sun, And Every Few Months, I Have To Go And Have Some Basal Cell Removed From My Old Craggy Features.

We Were Pleased To Hear The President State His Firm Commitment That He Will Do Whatever Is Necessary To Accomplish This Important Goal.

Our Country Doesn't Depend On The Heroism Of Every Citizen. But All Of Us Should Be Worthy Of The Sacrifices Made On Our Behalf.

I Admire Obama, And I Like Him. I Think He Has A Great Deal Of Talent. He Should Be Applauded For His Eloquence And For His Ability To Motivate Millions.

I Love The Veterans. And I'll Take Care Of Them. And They Know That I'll Take Care Of Them. And That's Going To Be My Job. But, Also, I Have The Ability, And The Knowledge, And The Background To Make The Right Judgments, To Keep America Safe And Secure.

Did You Hear The One About The Woman Who Is Attacked On The Street By A Gorilla, Beaten Senseless, Raped Repeatedly, And Left To Die? When She Finally Regains Consciousness And Tries To Speak, Her Doctor Leans Over To Hear Her Sigh Contently And To Feebly Ask, 'where Is That Marvelous Ape?'

I'm Not Surprised That Governor Dean Would Oppose [the $87 Billion To Fund Iraq Reconstruction].... I've Lost Confidence That He Has Any Understanding Of The National Security Responsibilities Of A President... [b]ecause I Don't Believe That He Has Any Understanding Of The International Role That The United States Has To Play In The World. I Think It's A Kind Of A Pseudo-isolationism That Appeals To The Base Of The Caucus Voters. I Do Not Believe That Particularly In The Case Of Iraq That Governor Dean Has Any Fundamental Understanding Of What's At Stake Here.

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