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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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Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?
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Afraid Freedom Security Trade Willing Yourself
Let’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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Benefit Pay Rich Security Social
The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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Law Money Power Restriction Tax
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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Democracy Equality Freedom Limitation Market Opportunity Promise
Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.
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Destruction Leadership Rise War
I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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Dignity Myself Need Thinking
I’m not someone who’s sort of still trying to figure out what I believe in.
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Believe Myself Try
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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End Friendship Hate Military Nation Save
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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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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Abuse Civilization Freedom People Society
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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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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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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During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
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Citizenship Economy Patience Right Thinking Vote
My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream.
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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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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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