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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.

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We Should Be Proud

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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.

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Losing Ourselves

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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.

Let's Start That Conversation By Acknowledging We Aren't Going To Deport 12 Million Illegal Immigrants. If You Wish To Work, If You Wish To Live And Work In America, Then We Will Find A Place For You.

We Have Islamic Rebels [in Syria] Who've Been Eating The Hearts Or Organs Of Their Enemies. We Have Priests That Have Been Killed. We Have Christian Villages That Have Been Razed By Islamic Rebels. We Have Islamic Rebels Who Say They Don't Recognize Israel And Would Just As Soon Attack Israel As [bashar] Assad. So Really, I See No Clear-cut American Interest, And I'm Afraid That Sometimes Things Unravel, And The Situation Could Become Less Stable And Not More Stable.

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

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

Currently, The United States Has Troops In Dozens Of Countries And Is Actively Fighting In Iraq, Syria, Libya, And Yemen (with The Occasional Drone Strike In Pakistan). In Addition, The United States Is Pledged To Defend 28 Countries In Nato. It Is Unwise To Expand The Monetary And Military Obligations Of The United States Given The Burden Of Our $20 Trillion Debt.

I'll Tell You What A Weakness Is Of This Country [the Usa]: There Are A Lot Of People Who Are Sick And Tired Because Washington Does Not Play By The Same Rules That The American People Have To Play By.

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

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

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

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I Do Believe People Ought To Be Left Alone. I Don't Care Who You Are Or What You Do At Home Or Who Your Friends Are Or Where You Hang Out, What Kind Of Music You Listen To, What You Do In Your Home Is Your Own Business. That's Always Been Who I Am. I Am A Leave Me Alone Kind Of Guy.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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

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

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 Would Prefer The [usa] Government To Be The Policeman And Not The Businessman.

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

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

When I Asked The President [barack Obama], Can You Kill An American On American Soil, It Should Have Been An Easy Answer. It's An Easy Question. It Should Have Been A Resounding And Unequivocal No. The President's Response, He Hasn't Killed Anyone Yet.

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.

We Are Borrowing $40,000 Per Second.

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.

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.

Just Because A Couple People On The Supreme Court Declare Something To Be 'constitutional' Does Not Make It So.

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

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

Right Now In The Insurance Markets, We Have Sort Of A Disaster Unfolding, A Downward Spiral, Adverse Selection, Premiums In The Individual Market Going Through The Roof. People Can't Afford Insurance And Insurance Companies Are Losing Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars. If You Repeal Part Of Obamacare To Get Rid Of The Individual Mandate But Keep Some Of The Ideas, That People Can Still Buy Insurance After They're Sick, The Situation Gets Extraordinarily Worse. And So What We're Seeing Now Could Be Tenfold Greater If You Only Repeal Part Of Obamacare.

When We Toppled [muammar] Gadhafi In Libya, I Think That Was A Mistake. I Think Isis Grew Stronger, We Had A Failed State, And We Were More At Risk.

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.

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

You Don't Win As A Party Unless You Become A Bigger Party.

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

I Think When People Voted For Donald Trump, They Realized He Owned A Lot Of Stuff With His Name On It. I Think The Concern Over Conflict Of Interest Seems To Be Higher In The Media Than The Public. People Saying, Oh, He Has To Sell All Of His Stuff.

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

I've Introduced Legislation To Say, "for Right Now, Let's Stop It," From About 34 Countries.

For Example, The Use Of Chemical Weapons [in Syria]- Some On The Democrat Side Have Said Well, This Encourages The North Koreans To Use Chemical Weapons Against Our Troops.

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.

The Problem Or The Fundamental Flaw Of Obamacare Was That They Put Regulations On The Insurance, About 12 Regulations, Which Increased The Cost Of The Insurance. And So President Obama Wanted To Help Poor, Working-class People, But He Actually Hurts Them By Making The Insurance Too Expensive To Want To Buy. I Had Someone At The House Just Recently Was Doing Some Work, And He Said: "oh, My Son Doesn't Have Insurance, He's Paying The Penalty Because It's Too Expensive."

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 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.

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

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

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