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We All Either Work For Rich People Or We Sell Stuff To Rich People, So Just Punishing Rich People Is As Bad For The Economy As Punishing Anyone. Let's Not Punish Anyone.

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We All Either Work For Rich People Or We Sell Stuff To Rich People, So Just Punishing Rich People Is As Bad For The Economy As Punishing Anyone. Let's Not Punish Anyone.

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

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

I Think You'll Find That These Are Measures That Have Great Bipartisan Support, And So I Expect, Not Only Did We Do Well In The Primary, I Think We'll Win By A Wide Margin In The Fall Because We're Going To Get A Lot Of Independents And Conservative Democrats Coming To Us.

I’m Not For Profiling People On The Color Of Their Skin Or On Their Religion. But I Would Take Into Account Where They've Been Traveling And Perhaps You Might Indirectly Have To Take Into Account Whether Or Not They've Been Going To Radical Political Speeches By Religious Leaders. It Wouldn't Be That They Are Islamic. But If Someone Is Attending Speeches From Someone Who Is Promoting The Violent Overthrow Of Our Government, That’s Really An Offense That We Should Be Going After. They Should Be Deported Or Put In Prison.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

We Should Not Have The U.s. Government Buying Stock In American Industries - The Financial Industry Or Any Other Industry.

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.

We're For The Balanced Budget Amendment And Yet The Budget We're Going To Introduce, That We're Going To Repeal Obamacare With Never Balances.

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.

I Went To My First National Convention In 1976, When My Family Supported [ronald] Reagan Over [gerald] Ford, So We've Always Been Republicans, But We've Always Wanted The Republican Party To Be The Party Of Fiscally Conservative, Limited-government Types. And I Think, Sometimes, We Haven't Done That As Well.

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