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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 only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.
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Age Retirement Security Way
And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
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Civilization Freedom Liberty Party Right Time
We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we’ve cut every penny from corporate welfare.
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Business Money Oneself Safety
Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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Funny Missing Politics
No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.
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There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels.
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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism – the individual – is mightier than any collective.
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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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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I’m not someone who’s sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.
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Believe Myself Try
The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.
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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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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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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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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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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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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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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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