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For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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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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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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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
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The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
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The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible – the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.
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I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.
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I’ve put pencil to paper… and I’ve said I would cut spending, and I’ve said exactly where. Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
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I do believe people ought to be left alone. I don’t care who you are or what you do at home or who your friends are or where you hang out, what kind of music you listen to, what you do in your home is your own business. That’s always been who I am. I am a leave me alone kind of guy.
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We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people, so just punishing rich people is as bad for the economy as punishing anyone. Let’s not punish anyone.
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No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.
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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they’re tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
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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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I’ve heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me – they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are programs.
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How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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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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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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We are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.
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We have to think before we act.
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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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