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If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades.

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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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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 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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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism – the individual – is mightier than any collective.
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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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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 think you have the right to health care, you are saying basically that I am your slave. I provide health care… My staff and technicians provide it… If you have a right to health care, then you have a right to their labor.
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You can send a clear message to the establishment.
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You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.
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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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I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!
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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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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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We have to think before we act.
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You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.
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I don’t want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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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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Unless you really stand for something, people aren’t motivated to go out and vote for you.
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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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Cut defense spending as part of cutting all federal spending.
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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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And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades.
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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades.

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