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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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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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Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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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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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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The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed – socialism doesn’t work.
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You can send a clear message to the establishment.
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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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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 would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it … But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don’t vote on this.
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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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The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
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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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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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No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.
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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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