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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I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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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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The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
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You can’t have it both ways. You can’t tell me that you’re taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, ‘Bring me home some bacon.’ The pig has been picked clean.
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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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We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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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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I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.
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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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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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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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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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