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I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

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I love being around people who work with their hands, who do the hard things to keep our country going. They’re just my kind of people.
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The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it. If followed to its logical extreme, [this approach] would result in an unwarranted expansion of federal power.
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So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest
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I think segregation is bad, I think it’s wrong, it’s immoral. I’d fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don’t need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write.
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I don’t really have the luxury to be bitter. I don’t have the luxury of having negative things in my life.
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The only people who have quick answers don’t have the responsibility of making the decisions.
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I have to admit that I’m one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.
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When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin.
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I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.
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I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
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I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop in your own life, you develop sort of the tools you need to continue on, or to do better.
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It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I’m supposed to think.
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In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today’s decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.
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Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.
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And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
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And I don’t think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there’s another set of moral codes, but I don’t think government has a role.
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I certainly have some very strong libertarian leanings, yes.

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