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We don’t need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

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How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?
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Give Up Liberty Politics Safety Security
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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Civilization Myself Practice Right Stop Support
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 state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
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Children Parents Yourself
It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.
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Attack Feeling Government Impossible Target
If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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Expectation Give Up Loss Right 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 will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.
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Family Fight Myself Vote War
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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Country Government History Oppression
You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they’re tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
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Democracy Government Money Ourselves Small Tax
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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Act Blame Myself Patriot People Reading Vote
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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Live Myself People Talk Travel Work
Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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Appearance Children Deserve Education Help Identity Race Right
The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.
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Age Retirement Security Way
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
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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Myself Past Policy Time Wrong
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
The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed – socialism doesn’t work.
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Failure Fundamental Reason Work
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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Care Health Slave Thinking Work Yourself
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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Bad Economy People Punishment Rich Work
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
You can send a clear message to the establishment.
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Establishment Message Yourself
I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.
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Force Myself Return Support
We have to think before we act.
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Action Advice One Liner Thinking
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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Absence Book Choice Development History Prison Program Technology
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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Act Challenge Fear History Liberty Nation Patriot Power Privacy Suffering Time
I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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Discrimination Law Myself Oppression

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