Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.
As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
We woke up one day, and Pakistan had nuclear weapons.
Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.
We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.
No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.
After all the sacrifice in Afghanistan and Iraq, why do we find ourselves in a more dangerous world?
The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I’m a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example.
I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.
Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.
The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.
Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be ‘constitutional’ does not make it so.
The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn’t like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family’s finances back in order.
I’m for immigration reform. I think the system’s horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.
If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn’t have expected to be shot.
My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.
We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.
Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The Hepatitis B vaccine is now given to newborns. We sometimes give five and six vaccines all at one time.
I have a biology degree, okay?
I’m not questioning Dick Cheney’s motives. There’s a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.
The NSA should keep close watch on suspected terrorists to keep our country safe – through programs permitting due process, the naming of a suspect, and oversight by an accountable court.
Both sides of the aisle – Republican and Democrat – have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone’s got to.
I’ve been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
For too long, we’ve attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.
And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
I think young people of all races are interested in justice; maybe not so much taxes and regulations, but they’re interested in justice and the right to privacy on the Internet.
I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don’t contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
Let’s means-test benefits – let’s means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
Michael Brown’s death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigarettes indicate something is wrong with criminal justice in America.
Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology’s decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.
If you hear me out, I believe you’ll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone’s rights.
In some communities, I show up, and they say, ‘Well, we haven’t seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.’
The Constitution’s pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear… They very specifically delegated the power to declare war to Congress. They wanted this to be a congressional decision; they did not want war to be engaged in by the executive without approval of Congress.
Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don’t agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam ‘goes quietly into that good night.’
I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don’t naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
I call myself a constitutional conservative.
I think my dad has helped me tremendously.
A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
I don’t think you should have everybody’s information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you’ve committed a crime.
It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.
To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation’s sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
If you have ‘too big to fail’ for cities or for states, and they believe they’ll be bailed out, they’ll continue to make unwise decisions.
The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.
My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.
The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation – not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.
If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
I’m the third of five children.
You don’t win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
Laws don’t really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.
I don’t want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies – where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.
I give thousands of interviews, and I’m probably about as open as anybody in Washington as far as access goes, so I’ll continue to do that.
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