I don’t think we should be engaged in nation-building. It’s not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military’s job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad.
TED CRUZFar too many young people are living in their parents’ basements, and I think it is important for people to have hope and a vision things can be different.
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We deserve leaders who stand for principal, who unite us all behind shared values, who cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect from everybody.
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Move over to Egypt. Once again, the [Barack] Obama administration, encouraged by Republicans, toppled [Hosni] Mubarak who had been a reliable ally of the United States, of Israel, and in its place, [Mohamed] Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood came in, a terrorist organization.
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We`re seeing something fairly remarkable happen on the political train. We`re seeing the Washington establishment abandoning Marco Rubio. I think they`ve made the determination that Marco can`t win. And they`re rushing to support Donald Trump.
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The National Enquirer is complete garbage, it is total lies, it was planted by Donald Trump’s henchmen, and I don’t think the people of Wisconsin or the people of America have any interest in tabloid trash.
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The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn’t happened.
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I want to commend the men and women at CPAC. As activists fighting for liberty, fighting for the Constitution, y’all are incredibly important. You are incredibly important number one in shocking and terrifying the mainstream media.
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The Obama-Clinton economy has done enormous damage to the Hispanic community.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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We don’t have storm troopers that just knock on the door of every American citizen. We don’t do that for any crime. But when we have evidence that a particular person has committed a crime, we send law enforcement to apprehend them.
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It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.
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Washington D.C. politics is like Hollywood for ugly people.
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Theirs is the party that … responds to the death of Americans at Benghazi by asking, What difference does it make?
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I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody. Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians. I’ll work with Martians. If – and the if is critical – they’re willing to cut spending and reduce the debt.
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The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
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The front line with ISIS isn’t just in Iraq and Syria, it’s in Kennedy Airport and the Rio Grande. Border security is national security.
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I think our nation faces enormous challenges, and we need leaders who are willing to tell the truth and do the right thing regardless of the consequences.
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I’ve spent the past month in Washington D.C. and it is terrific to be back in America.
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Far too many young people are living in their parents’ basements, and I think it is important for people to have hope and a vision things can be different.
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Mike Huckabee says the answer to our problems is to cure all diseases. I guess no one’s thought of that before.
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Start being biblically correct, instead of politically correct.
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I will commend the Democrats for one thing. If they name Keith Ellison as the head of the DNC, then I’ll commend them for truth in advertising.
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We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.
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If Donald Trump is president, he will appoint liberals.
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I want you to take a good, hard look at me, America, because this is exactly what you’ve got coming.
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If we want to defend the country, we have to defend against who’s coming in.
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In the Second Amendment, it’s not about hunting, it’s not about target shooting, it’s about protecting your home and your family and your life.
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