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I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.
The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn't really calling and asking for money.
It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
Perhaps it is time to be more careful what we ask government to do, and where we allow it to become part of our lives.
We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute. It's got to stop somewhere.
Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.
Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
If there were an ounce of courage in this body I would be joined by other senators… saying they will not tolerate this.
I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
Democrats in Louisville were led by Courier-Journal editor Henry Watterson and were implacably opposed to blacks voting.
I'm a Reagan conservative. Reagan did negotiate with the Soviets. But you have to negotiate from a position of strength.
I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.
Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it.
We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.
The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.
We still need to secure our southern border. The other thing I would say is we need to secure who visits us in the country.
Every gun regulation that President [Barack] Obama has advocated for, California has already. And it didn't stop terrorism.
I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees…But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution.
Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on [gay] marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.
This whole sort of 'war on women' sort of thing, I'm scratching my head because if there was a war on women, I think they won.
No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.
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.
Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.
Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
The people who get the ability to use force have to be watched carefully by civilians to make sure they don't use it excessively.
I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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.
The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
I think it's a conundrum. If we have no laws on this, people take it to one extension further, does it have to be humans, you know?
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.
As commander-in-chief, I will do whatever it takes to defend America. But in defending America, we cannot lose what America stands for.
We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War II.
I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.
As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.
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 more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone.