So, the point I’m making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it’s the job of every congressman and senators to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.
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We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder.
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We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
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The Tea Party doesn’t like politicians.
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I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It’s a terrible thing to do.
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I like to be a strategic policy guy.
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Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
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Government-run schools can’t instill morals and character.
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If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
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I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.
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Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator – life, liberty and freedom.
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If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.
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Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.
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Gay marriage considered immoral by all the world’s religions.
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As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society’s most vulnerable.
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Too many Americans are dependent on federal government.
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