I don’t think we should be engaged in nation-building. It’s not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military’s job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad.
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A good impression is great. But a bad impression is even better.
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The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years. It hasn’t happened.
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I’m an optimist at heart.
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The principles Donald Trump is focused on are exactly the right principles: more choice, more competition, lower costs, lower premiums.
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You have a right to have a feather duster. If anyone breaks in, you can make sure they’re really clean as they’re robbing your house.
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We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us – a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.
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Remember the lessons of history – if we don’t learn from history, we’re bound to repeat it.
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I’m not going to impugn anyone’s integrity. I’m not going to attack their character. And, in fact, I will happily praise both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio as men who I admire, as people who I’m not going to go personal with them.
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But you know what? There’s far more pain involved in rolling over, far more pain in hiding.
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If Donald Trump is president, he will appoint liberals.
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One of the problems in Washington is there are far too many politicians who desperately just want to get re-elected.
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It is very simple to be likeable in Washington. You just go along to get along. You just do what your leadership wants.
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Any country that makes U.S. service members get on their knees will feel the full force and fury of the United States of America.
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The Obama-Clinton economy has done enormous damage to the Hispanic community.
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I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.
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I’ve spent the past month in Washington D.C. and it is terrific to be back in America.
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The more liked you are in Washington, the less liked you are in the rest of America, and vice versa.
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Everyone seems to have internalized the fact that you can say anything you want at a televised debate, and only a tiny fraction of the audience will ever see a fact-check. So why not claim the moon is square?
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The National Enquirer is complete garbage, it is total lies, it was planted by Donald Trump’s henchmen, and I don’t think the people of Wisconsin or the people of America have any interest in tabloid trash.
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ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them back to the Stone Age.
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I appreciate the good work that senators in both parties have put into trying to fix our broken immigration system. There are some good elements in this proposal, especially increasing the resources and manpower to secure our border and also improving and streamlining legal immigration. However, I have deep concerns with the proposed path to citizenship. To allow those who came here illegally to be placed on such a path is both inconsistent with rule of law and profoundly unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who waited years, if not decades, to come to America legally.
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Far too many young people are living in their parents’ basements, and I think it is important for people to have hope and a vision things can be different.
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We deserve leaders who stand for principal, who unite us all behind shared values, who cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect from everybody.
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The reason the Constitution gives judges life tenure is so they can be independent of political pressures and follow the law.
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I oppose amnesty, I oppose citizenship, I oppose legalization for illegal aliens. I always have and I always will.
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The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
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