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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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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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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If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they’re contagious and you can catch it from them.
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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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For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
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I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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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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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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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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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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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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If you’re white and you’re rich in the USA, if you get busted for drugs, you get a good attorney, and you in all likelihood serve no time. But if you’re poor, black, Hispanic, or poor and white for that matter, you can get put in jail.
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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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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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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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