"The greatest threat to our national security is our debt. We borrow a million dollars a minute."
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"The president wants more tax money in Washington. I want more money left in the communities, particularly poor communities, particularly communities that have high unemployment."
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"I'm a Reagan conservative. Reagan did negotiate with the Soviets. But you have to negotiate from a position of strength."
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"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."
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"Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to."
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"To me, there is no greater threat than our debt. I'm the only fiscal conservative on the stage because I'm willing to hold the line on all spending."
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"Right now in the insurance markets, we have sort of a disaster unfolding, a downward spiral, adverse selection, premiums in the individual market going through the roof. People can't afford insurance and insurance companies are losing hundreds of millions of dollars. If you repeal part of Obamacare to get rid of the individual mandate but keep some of the ideas, that people can still buy insurance after they're sick, the situation gets extraordinarily worse. And so what we're seeing now could be tenfold greater if you only repeal part of Obamacare."
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"As commander-in-chief, I will do whatever it takes to defend America. But in defending America, we cannot lose what America stands for."
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"You have to decide in advance whether you're ready go to war. If you guys are ready to send a million troops into Ukraine and fight World War III, you're going to do it without my support because I think that's a really foolish notion."
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"If there are few conservatives in the senate wing of the Republican Party that will say no to a budget that never balances, we could have the power to say to the leadership, you know what, need a better budget."
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"Out of regime change you get chaos. From the chaos you have seen repeatedly the rise of radical Islam. So we get this profession of, oh, my goodness, they want to do something about terrorism and yet they're the problem because they allow terrorism to arise out of that chaos."
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"I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator."
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"You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party."
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"After ensuring border security, I then would normalize the status of 11 million undocumented citizens so they can join the work force and pay taxes...I would normalize them at a rate of about two million per year."
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"I will advocate for Kentucky's interests."
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"I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids."
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"We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times."
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"I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race."
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"You don't go into politics unless you want to win."
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"I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America."
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