So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it’s a better education overall.
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When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.
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Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.
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We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!
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I’m going to focus on people and what they need, not on name calling between politicians.
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I’d like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.
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Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
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Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable.
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Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.
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America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
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What I want to do first with education is my student loan idea. Basically, if you go into teaching and teach for five years, your student loans should be forgiven. It doesn’t cost that much.
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Democrats don’t relate to middle-class people.
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People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.
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If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.
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But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don’t because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere.
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Certainly any president – Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative – should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.
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When you lose an election, you don’t blink, you don’t turn away. You look it right in the eye and say, why did we lose?
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No one believed [the 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens] was tough enough on illegal immigration, and it didn’t give enough flexibility on future legal immigration.
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Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.
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I want to attract the best people into teaching.
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This is government’s primary function – to keep us safe – and when large percentages in America don’t feel safe, they start asking: What am I paying my taxes for? What is government all about?
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Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments – the American people really don’t care.
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The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
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The highest priority you can have is education.
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There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.
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We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don’t starve. Those are values, too.
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Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.
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