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"If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!"
"What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism."
"Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries."
"I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines."
"The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible."
"The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action."
"No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act."
"We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we've cut every penny from corporate welfare."
"You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it."
"My great grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American Dream."
"I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do."
"If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die."
"Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently."
"I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government."
"For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way."
"When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and jury - national security letters, no-knock searches, broad general warrants, pre-conviction forfeiture - we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands."
"The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior."
"We live in a world, a medieval type of world, where someone can accuse you - through gossip and hearsay, and all of a sudden you're supposed to respond to specific charges from people you don't know, are not aware of who these people are, and you're supposed to respond to their specific allegations?"
"The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any collective."
"The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a country like Syria, where we can’t separate friend from foe and might end up arming the very people who hate us the most."