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

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Principles
Communicate
And My Point Was One I Think That You'd Agree With, Which Is There's No Room In America For A Black Racist, A Latino Racist, Or A White Racist, Or An Asian Racist, Or A Native American Racist. Now, We're Either Color Blind Or We're Not Color Blind.
Native American
Thinking
Color
Hillary Clinton Is Lying Again And Again.
Lying
Clinton
Again And Again
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.
Morning
Reality
Thinking
I'm A Little Tired Of People Who Have Very Big Moral Positions And Very Small Power In Reality.
Tired
Reality
People
1995 Government Shutdown From Gop Underestimating Clinton.
Government
Underestimate
Clinton
If I Can Get You To A Point Where You Can Lead A Full Life, Sustain A Job, Earn Money For Your Family - You Can Be Completely Engaged As A Citizen.
Jobs
Citizens
Our Family
Under Our [constitutional System] - Either We're Going To Have To Rethink Our Constitution, Or We're Going To Have To Rethink Our Process Of Decision-making.
Decision
Decision Making
Constitution
It's Going To Be A Bummer If Mars Turns Out To Be Like Us.
Science
Mars
Turns
Baby Boomers Becoming Republicans While Dems Become Outdated.
Baby
Principles
Becoming
Donald Trump Is My Leader. And If He Decides To Drop The Swamp And The Alligator, I Will Drop The Swamp And The Alligator.
Leader
Swamps
Alligators
Ongoing Battle Against Liberals Nationalizing Healthcare.
Battle
Ongoing
Care
If You Go To The Lincoln Memorial, The Second Inaugural Is Probably The Most Religious Speech Ever Given By An American President. In Its 732 Words, It References God 14 Times And Has Two Verses Of The Bible.
Religious
Two
Memorial
Book Cover, 'reefer Club' Totalitarianism Is When People Believe They Can Punish Their Way To Perfection.
War
Believe
Book
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.
Senior
Jobs
Cost Of Living
The Problem Isn’t Too Little Money In Political Campaigns, But Not Enough.
Political
Littles
Campaigns
Press Plays "gotcha"; Limit Press Briefings.
Play
Limits
Briefing
Convert To Ira-based System.
Ira
Security
Social Security
And I Think Trump Wants To Change America To Make It Great Again For A Generation, Not Just For Eight Years.
Thinking
I Read Men Who Hate Women And The Women Who Love Them And I Found Frightening Pieces That Related To…my Own Life.
Hate
Men
Pieces
The Bush Administration Has Now Provided Three Case Studies In Arrogance, Isolation And Destructiveness: Michael Brown During Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Jerry Bremer In Baghdad And Secretary Paulson At Treasury. It Is A Tragic And Very Expensive Legacy. No Conservative And No Republican Should Doubt How Much It Has Hurt Our Cause And Our Party.
Hurt
Party
Arrogance
You Can't Talk About Attacking Or Assassinating The President Of The United States And You Shouldn't Be Able To.
President
Able
United States
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!
Jobs
Fighting
Hands
The Constitution Gives The President Of The United States An Extraordinarily Wide Grant Of Authority To Use The Power Of The Pardon.
Giving
President
Use
White Man Racist Nominee Would Be Forced To Withdraw. Latina Woman Racist Should Also Withdraw.
Men
White Man
Racist
We Have To Frankly Break The Back Of The Secular-socialist Machine, Elect People Committed To Representing The American People, And Then Methodically Rip The System Apart.
Rip
People
Machines
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.
Thinking
Doctrine
Nuclear
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.
Cancer
Heart
Issues
You Know, You Try To Move The Brussels Bureaucracy, And Unless You Have Some Capacity To Really Break It, You Can't Move It. It Just Sits There And Stares At You.
Moving
Trying
Break
You Can't Flip-flop And Be Commander-in-chief.
Flip
Chiefs
Commander In Chief
Trump Is Trying To Do A Lot Of Really Big Things. And He's Actually Getting A Lot Of Big Things Done.
Trying
Done
People Like Me Are What Stand Between Us And Auschwitz.
People
Auschwitz
Like Me
In The Middle Of A Recession No Tax Increase Is Justified Because It Kills Jobs, And Any Tax Increase Is A Job-killing Measure And Should Be Defeated.
Jobs
Justified
Killing
The Most Powerful Force Changing Our Society Is The Information Revolution.
Powerful
Our Society
Information
Rethink Every Aspect Of Bureaucracy.
Aspect
Bureaucracy
Donald Trump Has To Be Donald Trump. And The Country Will Organize Itself Around Who He Is.
Country
Organize
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.
Mother
Wife
Likes
To Suggest That It's Ok To Assassinate A President, I Think Is A Felony. And I Think That It Should Be.
Thinking
President
Should
Nothing Gets Done (in Congress) Unless It's Bipartisan. And The Reason That Matters Is That It's A Function Of Reality.
Reality
Done
Matter
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.
Running
Office
President
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.
Brother
Night
Want
I Believe We Are Now In A Struggle Over Whether Or Not We Are Going To Save America.
Believe
Struggle
America
Private Scholarships For Students At Hopeless Schools.
Education
School
Students
When We Have 13,000 Americans Living On The Moon, They Can Petition To Become A State.
Moon
Petitions
States
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.
Children
Years
Class
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.
Party
President
Nominations
We Tried To Have Diplomas Without Learning, We Tried To Have Jobs Without Work, We Tried To Have Houses Without Savings, We Tried To Have Government Without Responsibility.
Jobs
Learning
Responsibility
And In The Wake Of Trump's Elections, There Have Been Reports Across The Country Of Intimidation, Harassment And Violence Against Those Very Groups. So If Trump Is Serious About Unifying The Country, If This Is A Thing He Wants To Do, Then I Think He Needs To Immediately Speak Against These Acts Of Intimidation, Harassment And Violence That Are Happening To Some Degree In The Name Of The Campaign That He Ran.
Country
Thinking
Violence
Donald Trump Has A Grand Direction. He Doesn't Have A Grand Strategy. He Wants To Re-establish American Authority And Power And To Relaunch The American Economy.
Authority And Power
Want
Strategy
Focus On Prevention; Would Save $14b With Diabetes.
Focus
Prevention
Care
I Think That Donald Trump Is Very Concerned About Finding The Right Way To Be Effective In A Responsible Way. And He Wants To Be Effective.
Thinking
Want
Way
It Doesn’t Matter What I Do. People Need To Hear What I Have To Say. There’s No One Else Who Can Say What I Can Say. It Doesn’t Matter What I Live.
People
Matter
Needs
Hillary Clinton Has Built A Huge Machine. Donald Trump's Asset Is People On Facebook And Twitter. He Can Communicate With Them Eight Or 10 Times A Day With No Money. This Is A Different World.
Eight
People
Different
I Will Go To The Naacp Convention, And Explain To The African-american Community Why They Should Demand Paychecks Instead Of Food Stamps.
Community
African American
Demand
The Secular Elites Are So Terrified Of Telling The Truth About Radical Islam. When You Talk About The Radical Islamists, We Have Got To Get Straight And Get Serious And Talk About It In The Right Way.
Islam
Way
Serious
We Have To Rethink, How Do We Get A Complete 360-degree Understanding Of The Patient?
Understanding
Degrees
Patient
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.
Blood
Years
People
Politics And War Are Remarkably Similar Situations.
War
Political
Politics
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