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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.

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

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

My First Choice Had Always Been My Father. He's Still My First Pick. Now That The Nominating Process Is Over, Tonight, I'm Happy To Announce That I'm Going To Be Supporting Governor Romney.

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

No Republican Questions Or Disputes Civil Rights. I Have Never Wavered In My Support For Civil Rights Or The Civil Rights Act.

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

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 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.

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.

To Me, There Is No Greater Threat Than Our Debt. I'm The Only Fiscal Conservative On The Stage Because I'm Willing To Hold The Line On All Spending.

I Think That If You Believe In Regime Change, You're Mistaken. In 2013, We Put 600 Tons Of Weapons - Us, Saudi Arabia, And Qatar - Into The War Against [bashar] Assad. By Pushing Assad Back, We Did Create A Safe Space.

I Think A Lot Of Things Could Be Handled Locally.

I Think There's A Racial Outcome To A Lot Of What Goes In America, But I Don't Think Race Is Always The Reason.

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.

We Should Not Have Drug Laws Or A Court System That Disproportionately Punishes The Black Community.

Let's Means-test Benefits - Let's Means-test Social Security And Medicare And Make The Rich Pay More For These Benefits.

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.

[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 Think We Can All Agree [bashar] Assad Is A Bad And Evil Actor, But I'm Not So Sure That We Want The Islamic Rebels To Be In Charge Of Syria Either.

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 Don't Plan On Being Bashful.

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

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

If We Believe [obama] To Be A Good Man Who Would Never Kill Noncombatants In A Cafe In Houston, Sitting Out In A Sidewalk Cafe, Smoking - Oh, That's Right You're Not Allowed To Smoke Cigarettes Anymore.

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.

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.

The Gop Of Old Has Grown Old And Moss Covered.

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

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.

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

I'm In Favor Of Everything With Regards To Ending Institutional Racism.

Institutional Racism

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

If You Think You Have The Right To Health Care, You Are Saying Basically That I Am Your Slave. I Provide Health Care... My Staff And Technicians Provide It... If You Have A Right To Health Care, Then You Have A Right To Their Labor.

I Will Not Vote To Send My Sons, Or Your Sons, Daughters, Brothers, Sisters Or Friends To Fight For A Stalemate.

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.

President Obama Said, Oh, We Want To Make Insurance Perfect For People, But He Added All These Regulatory Mandates, Made It Too Expensive. Young, Healthy People Didn't Buy It, And The People Remaining In The Insurance Pool Were Sicker And Sicker. That's The Adverse Selection And The Death Spiral Of Obamacare. And So Really We Do Need To Discuss The Intricacies Of What Worked And What Didn't Work In Obamacare. And I Think The Better Way To Do This Is To Let Individuals Have The Freedom To Choose What Kind Of Insurance Is Best For Them. The Government Doesn't Always Know Best.

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.

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

Join Us In The Fight To Defeat The Washington Machine. It’s Fun And Easy To Get Started. You Can Make A Difference And Change The Direction Of Our Country! Join Today.

Is Donald Trump A Serious Candidate? The Reason I Ask This Is, If You're Going To Close The Internet, Realize, America, What That Entails. That Entails Getting Rid Of The First Amendment, Ok? It's No Small Feat.

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

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.

The Problem Is That In Our Country, They Make It Almost Impossible For Politicians To Win Anything. In England It's Easier To Win A Libel Suit.

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.

A Tea Party Tidal Wave Is Coming.

I've Thought For Some Time That The Answer To A Lot Of Problems In The Middle East, Including Iran, Include An Active Role With Russia. And I Think, In Some Ways, We've Taken Show Votes In The U.n. That Are Guaranteed To Failure Before We Take Them.

Some People Say I Chastise The Republican Party Too Much.

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

We As Republicans Have Taken The Easy Way Out A Lot Of Times.

I Was Told I Got 10 Measly Minutes, But Just In Case, I Brought 13 Hours Worth Of Material.

I Think We've Made The Collection Haystack So Big, No One's Ever Getting Through The Haystack To Find The Needle. What We Really Need To Do Is Isolate The Haystack Into A Group Of Suspicious People And Spend Enormous Resources Looking At Suspicious People, People Who We Have Probable Cause.

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.

Well, I Think A Handshake Is Something That Honorable Men Do. Before We Had Contracts We Had Handshakes That Expressed That We Were Making An Arrangement That Was Based On Our Honor. And I Don't Think I Can Shake The Hand Of Someone Who Shows And Lacks Honor By Attacking A Man's Faith.

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

Gun Control Is Not Part Of A Strategy To Defeat Radical Islam Or Take Isil Down. However It Is A Problem Back Here At Home. A Million People Have Been Adjudicated A Danger To Themselves Or To Others At The State Court Level.

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.

We Need A Republican Party That Shows Up On The South Side Of Chicago And Shouts At The Top Of Our Lungs, 'we Are The Party Of Jobs And Opportunity! The Gop Is The Ticket To The Middle Class.

I Have A Message From The Tea Party, A Message That Is Loud And Clear And Does Not Mince Words. We've Come To Take Our Government Back.

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.

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.

If Our Freedom Is Taken, The American Dream Will Wither And Die.

As Our Voices Rise In Protest, The Nsa Monitors Your Every Phone Call. If You Have A Cell Phone, You Are Under Surveillance. I Believe What You Do On Your Cell Phone Is None Of Their Damn Business.

We Must Always Embrace Individual Liberty And Enforce The Constitutional Rights Of All Americans-rich And Poor, Immigrant And Native, Black And White.

Black And White

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

I Am Running For President To Return Our Country To The Principles Of Liberty And Limited Government.

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.

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.

The Government Has Investigated Our Program Of Collecting Through A Generalized Fashion, Everyone's Phone Records In The Country. And They Found That No Terrorist Case Has Been Thwarted Through This.

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.

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.

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

We Didn't Create Isis - Isis Created Themselves, But We Will Stop Them, And One Of The Ways We Stop Them Is By Not Funding Them, And Not Arming Them.

I Think We're Never Fully Protected, But I Think We Need To Do Everything We Can To Stop Threats To Us.

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

I Think It's A Mistake To Downgrade And Say Surveillance Is No Big Deal. It Is A Huge Deal That We Are Collecting Millions Of Americans Phone Calls And That Someone Can Go To A Keyboard And Put Your Name In And Search It Without A Warrant.

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

Al Qaeda Has Been Placed On The Run, But Not Destroyed.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 Can Tell You Who's Planning Terroris Attacks. The Leaders Of Isil. And I Can Tell You Where They're At. They're In Raqqa, Syria. So For God's Sakes, Mr. President Barack Obama , Change Your Strategy. Come Up With A Ground Force To Go In And Destroy The Caliphate Before We Get Hit Here At Home. That Would Be My Advice To You.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I Read All Of Ayn Rand's Novels When I Was 17.

There Comes A Time, There Comes A Time In The History Of Nations When Fear And Complacency Allow Power To Accumulate And Liberty And Privacy To Suffer. That Time Is Now And I Will Not Let The Patriot Act, The Most Unpatriotic Of Acts Go Unchallenged.

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.

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

I Love The Mexican People; I Respect The Mexican Leaders - But The Leaders Are Much Sharper, Smarter And More Cunning Than Our [american] Leaders.

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.'

We Must Protect Ourselves From Jihadis Without Losing Ourselves.

Losing Ourselves

The Question Is, How Do We Keep America Safe From Terrorism? [donald]trump Says We Ought To Close That Internet Thing. The Question Really Is, What Does He Mean By That? Like They Do In North Korea? Like They Do In China?

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

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.

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.

Who Gets To Decide Who's An Enemy Combatant And Who's An American Citizen? Are We Really So Frightened And So Easily Frightened That We Would Give Up A Thousand-year History?

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

I Call Myself A Constitutional Conservative.

The Other Thing I Said Is The Great Irony Is You Will Be Back Fighting Against Your Own Weapons. Had [bashar] Assad Been Bombed When He Used Chemical Weapons Two Years Ago, Isis Would Be In Charge Of All Of Syria Now.

You Know, When Republicans Were In Charge, We Doubled The Debt. But, Now, Our Concern Is The Democrats Are In Charge And They're Tripling The Debt. So, Really, Our Concern Is That We Want Smaller Government.

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.

We Have 11 Million People Said To Be In Our Country Illegally. Forty Percent Of Them Are Said To Have Overstayed Their Visa. Do We Know Where They Are?

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

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?

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.

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.

Well, There’s 10 - There’s 10 Different - There’s 10 Different Titles, You Know, To The Civil Rights Act, And Nine Out Of 10 Deal With Public Institutions. And I’m Absolutely In Favor Of One Deals With Private Institutions, And Had I Been Around, I Would Have Tried To Modify That.

I've Had An Interest In Politics Since I Was A Little Kid.

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.

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

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.

There's A Sense Of Urgency That The President Does Not Possess, That There Is A 9/11 In The Making.

Sense Of Urgency

During The Great Depression African Americans Understood That Republicans Championed Citizenship And Voting Rights, But They Became Impatient For Economic Emancipation.

I Don't Care If You're A Republican Or A Democrat, There Is Something Profoundly Un-american About Using The Brute Force Of Government To Bully Someone.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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

I Don't Know About [rex] Tillerson, But I Do Know That John Bolton Doesn't Get It. He Still Believes In Regime Change. He's Still A Big Cheerleader For The Iraq War. He's Promoted A Nuclear Attack By Israel On Iran. He Wants To Do Regime Change In Iran. So, I Think John Bolton Is So Far Out Of It And Has Such A Naive Understanding Of The World. If He Were To Be The Assistant Or The Undersecretary For Tillerson, I'm An Out Automatic No On Bolton.

And When The Time Is Right, I Hope That African Americans Will Again Look To The Party Of Emancipation, Civil Liberty, And Individual Freedom.

African American

If I Have A Weakness, It's That I Try To Live By The Rules. I Try To Live By The Rules, No Matter What They Are, And I Was Brought Up That Way As A Kid. Play By The Rules.

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.

Foreign Aid Is Not Something The Vast Majority Of Americans Support, But Definitely Not Conservatives.

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.

If You Are Accused Of Being Associated With Terrorism, Which Could Mean You Are An Arab- American And You've Sent E-mails To A Relative In The Middle East, You Should Get Your Day In Court, And I Think You Should Get A Lawyer And A Trial, And I Think Most Americans Agree To That.

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.

My Great Grandfather, Like Many, Came To This Country In Search Of The American Dream.

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

African American

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.

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.

We Have To Have A More Realistic Foreign Policy And Not A Utopian One Where We Say, Oh, We're Going To Spread Freedom And Democracy, And Everybody In The Middle East Is Going To Love Us. They Are Not Going To Love Us.

I Won't Support Any Budget, Whether It's A Republican Or A Democrat Budget, That Doesn't Lead To Balance.

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.

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

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.

I'll Do Anything To Try To Prevent John Bolton From Getting Any Position, Because I Think His World View Is Naive. He Believes We're Going To Spread Democracy. We're Going To Topple Governments Everywhere And They're Going To Elect Thomas Jefferson. That's Not The Way It Works In The Middle East.

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

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 It's A Real Debate How Big Nato Should Be And Whether Or Not It's More Provocative Than Good. Whenever There's A War Fought, Our Soldiers Fight It And Our Dollars Pay For It. And, Really, Our Decisions Need To Be About Our National Security.

I'm Not Accusing Anybody Of Being [hitler].

I Think If We Want To Defeat Terrorism, I Think If We Truly Are Sincere About Defeating Terrorism, We Need To Quit Arming The Allies Of Isis. If We Want To Defeat Terrorism, The Boots On The Ground - The Boots On The Ground Need To Be Arab Boots On The Ground.

I Think We Have A Tea Party Mandate, And That Tea Party Mandate Is For Good-government Type Of Things, Things Like Term Limits, Things Like A Balanced Budget Amendment, Things Like Read The Bills For Goodness Sakes, Things Like That Maybe Congress Should Only Pass Legislation That They Apply To Themselves As Well.

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

I've Been Accused Of Wanting To Allow Terrorists To Have Weapons To Attack America.

What I Can Say Is, Is That If You Do A Poll, And One Of The Worldwide Polling Companies Did This, And They Asked People In 50 Countries, "would You Like To Come To America," It's About 700 Million Would Come Next Year. We Would Double Our Population.

I Support Local Solutions To Illegal Immigration As Protected By The 10th Amendment. I Support Making English The Official Language Of All Documents And Contracts.

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

Foreign Aid Goes From Poor People In Rich Countries To Rich People In Poor Countries.

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

Of Strong Importance To Me Is The Defense Of Minority Rights, Not Just Racial Minorities, But Ideological And Religious Minorities.

Inherent To Socialism Is The Absence Of Choice. If I Want To Choose My Own Pretzels Or Books Or Iphones, They Prevent Me - They Fine Me, Or Imprison Me. And Those Systems, Not Infrequently Have Historically, Have Developed Into Systems Where There Are Pogroms.

The Great And Abiding Lesson Of American History, Particularly The Cold War, Is That The Engine Of Capitalism - The Individual - Is Mightier Than Any Collective.

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.

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

I Have A Question, A Question For The President: Do You Hate All Rich People, Or Just Rich People Who Don't Contribute To Your Campaign? Do You Hate Poor People Or Do You Just Hate Poor People With Jobs?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Many States And Even Many People Who Are In Support Of The Death Penalty Question Their Support Of The Death Penalty Because Of The Imperfection Of Our Courts. Through Dna Testing, We Don't Always Get It Right, Even With That.

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

All Issues Of Crime Are Better Addressed At The State Level.

We Do Not Project Power From Bankruptcy Court. We're Borrowing A Million Dollars A Minute.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Only Way To Save Social Security Is To Raise The Retirement Age.

This Is An Ongoing Threat From A Variety Of Sources Around The World. And Actually I Think It Works Both Ways. I'm Not Privy To It, But I Think All Of The Various Country That Have The Ability Are Invading Each Other's Computers All The Time. But We Have To Protect Our Data. It's Very Important.

The Source Of The Problem Is In Syria. Raqqa Is The Headquarters Of Isil, Which Is A Lethal Terrorist Organization, Now Army. If You Don't Go After Them Over There, They're Going To Hit Us Over Here, And There's No Substitute For That In My View.

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.

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

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?'

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.

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.

Every Child In Every Neighborhood, Of Every Color, Class And Background, Deserves A School That Will Help Them Succeed.

I Think My Dad Has Helped Me Tremendously.

I Will Not Let The Patriot Act, The Most Un-patriotic Of Acts, Go Unchallenged.

I Think It's A Little Premature To Talk About Response Until We Know Exactly What Happened, But We Should Know What Happened. And We Should Know How To Defend [against Hackers Attacks] Ourselves Without Question.

Republicans Who Criticize The Use Of Two Languages, I Think, Make A Great Mistake.

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.

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."

I Want To Collect More Records From Terrorists, But Less Records From Innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment Was What We Fought The Revolution Over! John Adams Said It Was The Spark That Led To Our War For Independence, And I'm Proud Of Standing For The Bill Of Rights, And I Will Continue To Stand For The Bill Of Rights.

I Don't Think We're Actually Using The Constitutional Tools That We Have In An Appropriate Fashion.

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.

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.

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