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America’s not the world’s policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act.

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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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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.
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Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.
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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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No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.
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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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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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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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The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed – socialism doesn’t work.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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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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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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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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America’s not the world’s policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act.

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