"I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work."
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"These are just things that we don't know, and that's where trust and faith come in."
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"We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation."
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"We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger."
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"This whole concept of boots on the ground, we've got a phobia about boots on the ground. If our military experts say, we need boots on the ground, we should put boots on the ground and recognize that there will be boots on the ground and they'll be over here, and they'll be their boots if we don't get out of there now."
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"It was very interesting having an opportunity to talk to the Syrians themselves. And I asked them: What do you want? What is your supreme desire? Their supreme desire was to be settled back in their own country. I said, "What can Americans and other countries do?" They said, "Support the efforts of those who are trying to provide safety for us, including the Jordanians.""
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"We turned our back on Israel, our ally. You know, and a situation like that, of course [Barack]Obama's not going to be able to do anything. I would shore up our military first, because if you don't get the military right, nothing else is going to work."
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"We have to destroy their caliphate because that gives them legitimacy to go ahead with the global Jihad. We have to take their energy because they are - ISIS is the richest terrorist organization there is."
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"We are not like dogs who are kind of "What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it.""
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"It's a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one's life accordingly."
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"We recognize that North Korea is in severe financial straits, and they have decided to use their resources to build their military, rather than to feed their people and to take care of the various humanitarian responsibilities that they have."
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"If you go into Hasakah province in northeast Syria, that's an area that's as big as Lebanon. It's controlled by the Kurds, the Christians and the moderate Sunnis. And there are airstrips and hotels. You could settle a lot of people there.All we would have to do is be willing to provide them with some weaponry, some defensive weaponry."
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"Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty."
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"The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard."
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"I don't believe that expressing your opinion, regardless of who is there, is being rude. And it's a shame that we've reached a level in our country where we think that you don't have the right to put your opinion out there."
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"If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it."
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"There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you."
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"I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth."
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"Obviously, discipline is necessary for children. Training is necessary for children. Just like if you want to train a vine, you have to apply physical manipulation to get it to go where you want it to go, but as it learns, then you don't have to do that."
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"You know if there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you're probably not going to assume something good about that dog, and you're probably gonna put your children out of the way. Doesn't mean that you hate all dogs by any stretch of the imagination."
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