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You can’t have it both ways. You can’t tell me that you’re taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, ‘Bring me home some bacon.’ The pig has been picked clean.
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No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
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We shouldn’t be fearful of freedom, we shouldn’t be fearful of individual liberty.
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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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Myself One Liner Planning
In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it … But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don’t vote on this.
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I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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Discrimination Law Myself Oppression
Let’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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Benefit Pay Rich Security Social
If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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Expectation Give Up Loss Right Yourself
The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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Believe Creation Growth Policy Promise Security
We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let’s make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let’s make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows.
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Hide Job Legal Opportunity Ourselves Proud Shadow Work
In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we’re civilized people we publicly criticize that and don’t belong to those groups or associate with those people.
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Abuse Civilization Freedom People Society
I don’t care if you’re a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.
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Unless you really stand for something, people aren’t motivated to go out and vote for you.
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Motivational People Vote Yourself
During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
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We are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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You can send a clear message to the establishment.
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Establishment Message Yourself
The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a country like Syria, where we can’t separate friend from foe and might end up arming the very people who hate us the most.
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Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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Expectation Give Up Loss Right Yourself
Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.
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You can not be a conservative if you’re going to keep promoting new programs that you’re not going to pay for.
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Pay Program Yourself
If I have a weakness, it’s that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.
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