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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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Civilization Freedom Liberty Party Right Time
It’s curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you’re saving money.
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Funny Money Yourself
We are borrowing $40,000 per second.
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Money Time
The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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Law Money Power Restriction Tax
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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Connection Money Punishment Tax Work
For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
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Economy Government Growth Liberty Way
Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.
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Funny Missing Politics
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
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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Breathe Enough Way Food Government Home Tax
I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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Novel Reading Young
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 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
Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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Liberty Power Privacy Suffering
If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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Expectation Give Up Loss Right Yourself
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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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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[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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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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Empty Government Party Value
All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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Address Crime Issues
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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[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.
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Himself Terrorism World
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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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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Goodness Identity Poor Prison Rich Time White
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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It’s a little different when you spend 30 years developing all these companies that we just ask [Donald Trump] to sell them. So I don’t think that’s a fair request.
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Company Development Different Myself Thinking
If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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