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In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it … But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don’t vote on this.

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Unless you really stand for something, people aren’t motivated to go out and vote for you.
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I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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You can’t have it both ways. You can’t tell me that you’re taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, ‘Bring me home some bacon.’ The pig has been picked clean.
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No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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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.
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Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.
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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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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.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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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.
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I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
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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.
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And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
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In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it … But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don’t vote on this.

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In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it … But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don’t vote on this.

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