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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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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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Appearance Children Deserve Education Help Identity Race Right
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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Civilization Myself Practice Right Stop Support
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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Country Hate Money Myself Quit Thinking
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
The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
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Behavior Citizenship Government Politics Writing
We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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Government Need Politics
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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Build Growth Improvement Loan Money Progress Wasted
All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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Address Crime Issues
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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Care Democracy Government Politics Wrong
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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End Friendship Hate Military Nation Save
For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
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Economy Government Growth Liberty Way
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
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
If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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Expectation Give Up Loss Right Yourself
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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Black Constitution Liberty Poor Rich Right White
I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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Constitution Identity Myself
Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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Liberty Power Privacy Suffering
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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Citizenship Economy Patience Right Thinking Vote
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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Connection Money Punishment Tax Work
[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.
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Himself Terrorism World
I don’t plan on being bashful.
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Myself One Liner Planning
We have to think before we act.
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Action Advice One Liner Thinking
You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.
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Civilization Strong War World Yourself
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
The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed – socialism doesn’t work.
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Failure Fundamental Reason Work
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
The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
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Children Parents Yourself

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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