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If I have a weakness, it’s that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.

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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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Law Money Power Restriction Tax
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
We shouldn’t be fearful of freedom, we shouldn’t be fearful of individual liberty.
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Country Fear Freedom Liberty Nation Right
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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Act Believe Beyond Children Death Effort Guard Right Risk Safety Stop World Wrong
If I have a weakness, it’s that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.
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Children Live Myself Play Rule Weakness
[Marco] Rubio says we should collect all Americans’ records all of the time. The Constitution says otherwise. I think they’re both wrong. I think we defeat terrorism by showing them that we do not fear them.
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Constitution Defeat Terroism Thinking Time Wrong
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
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
I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they’re women, they’re in positions because they’re intelligent and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally.
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Equality Intelligence Intelligent Journey Position Thinking Woman
If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they’re contagious and you can catch it from them.
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Celebration Funny Party Sick Yourself
I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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Force Myself Return Support
If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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Death Dream Freedom Ourselves Patriot
The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
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No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
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Act Civilization Myself Politics Right Support
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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Constitution Evil Government Necessary Possible Trust
If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!
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Clean Government Home Limitation People Place Power Rule
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
I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
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Business Citizenship Law Phone
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
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 should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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Black Community Law Punishment
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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You can send a clear message to the establishment.
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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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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
If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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Expectation Give Up Loss Right Yourself
I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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If I have a weakness, it’s that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules.

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