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On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

Bobby Jindal

As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.
BOBBY JINDAL

Dream Society Wish
I think we’ll have a bigger conversation first within the Republican Party, then with the American people about what’s the proper role of the federal government.
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Education Party Thinking
I know, to say that people should learn English, should learn American exceptionalism, shouldn’t come here to use our freedoms to undermine the freedoms we give to everybody. But there’s nothing wrong with saying people who want to come here should want to be Americans.
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Everybody Exceptional Freedom People
To succeed, we have to be the party of change, we have to root out corruption in our own ranks and we have to be the party of solutions.
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Party Roots Succeed
It’s not controversial to say that human activity is contributing in some way. The question is how serious that is.
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Controversial Serious Way
We will also make that Putin knows we have brigades in eastern Europe to make sure we deter his aggression. Peace through strength works.
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Aggresion Brigades Know Strength Works
The American dream means that you have the chance to work hard, get an education and do great things for yourself, for your kids.
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Dream Hard Mean Work
When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.
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Enforcement Individual Law
The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with.
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Correct Crowds Politically Viewpoints
We don’t measure our people’s success in how they’re doing in government. We measure how they are doing in the real world and the private sector economy.
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Government People Real
In fact, I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.
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Amendment Large Messed Situation
We’re not racist. We love our fellow man, we think we’re all equal under God’s eyes, we don’t believe we should change the definition of marriage simply because of opinion polls or because of a court that quite frankly isn’t looking at the constitution.
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Believe Eyes Fellow Man Marriage Simple
The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate.
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Party Principles Winning
We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winners and losers. Where do you go if you want special favors?
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Government Jobs Opportunity
Hillary Clinton, President Obama, they’re trying to turn the American dream into the European nightmare. We need to rescue the country from socialism.
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Country Dream Trying
I’m so tired of the left trying to divide us by race. One of the things I said today in my speech, we’re not Indian-Americans, African-Americans, Irish-Americans, rich Americans, poor Americans. We’re all Americans.
BOBBY JINDAL

Country People Race Tired
If I were to run for president, it’s because I believe in our country.
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Believe Country Running
Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don’t play to lose.
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Loser Play Winning
I spent a lot of 2012 going around the country saying that President Obama was the most liberal and most incompetent president in my lifetime ever since Jimmy Carter.
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Carter Lifetime President
People say both Obama and I have trouble laughing at ourselves. We can’t laugh at ourselves. That would be racist!
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Laughing People Racist
I’m not running to manage the decline of this great country. I’m running to make real changes in D.C.
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Country Manage Real Running
Three elections later, the president’s party has lost 70 House seats and 14 Senate seats. The job of Republicans now is to govern with the confidence that elections do have consequences, promptly passing the conservative reform the voters have demanded.
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Consequences Election Republician Three
I’ve got the courage to apply our conservative principles. I can’t do it alone. With your help, with God’s grace, we can save the idea of America before it’s too late.
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Country Grace Ideas People
Let the dollars follow the child instead of forcing the child to follow the dollars, so that every child has the opportunity to attain an education.
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Attain Child Dollar Opportunity
I think it’s offensive to equate evangelical Christians, Catholics, others that view marriage as between a man and a woman, as being racist.
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Believe Christian Eye Racist
If I were afraid of polls, we wouldn’t have privatized our charity hospital system, we wouldn’t cut our state budget 26%, wouldn’t have cut over 30,000 state government bureaucrats, wouldn’t have done statewide school choice. Here’s the real record.
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Government Privatized
Here’s what I’ve found in Louisiana: The voters want to know what you believe, what you stand for, and what you plan to do, not what shade your skin is.
BOBBY JINDAL

Believe Louisiana Skins

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

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On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

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