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"My goal right now is to actually help Donald Trump. He's the Republican president. He's doing a lot of things that conservatives are for. I'm for. And so my goal is to help Kentucky by repealing regulations that are killing our coal industry. And I think on that, we're very much aligned."
"The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did."
"I don't like the idea of telling private business owners. I abhor racism. I think it's a bad business decision to ever exclude anybody from your restaurant. But at the same time I do believe in private ownership. I think there should be absolutely no discrimination in anything that gets public funding."
"I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person."
"Many states and even many people who are in support of the death penalty question their support of the death penalty because of the imperfection of our courts. Through DNA testing, we don't always get it right, even with that."
"Well, let's be clear, I'm the only one on the stage who actually has a five-year budget that balances."
"I support local solutions to illegal immigration as protected by the 10th amendment. I support making English the official language of all documents and contracts."
"I'll tell you what a weakness is of this country [the USA]: there are a lot of people who are sick and tired because Washington does not play by the same rules that the American people have to play by."
"My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it."
"The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit."
"Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs."
"I will not let the patriot act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged."
"Nobody ever was fired for 9/11. Instead of firing the people who didn't do a good job, we gave them medals. The guy who did a good job, I don't know what happened to him. And what we did was we decided we'd just collect everybody's information. That we'd sort of scrap the Bill of Rights."
"I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts, go unchallenged. At the very least, we should debate. We should debate whether or not we are going to relinquish our rights, or whether or not we are going to have a full and able debate over whether or not we can live within the Constitution, or whether or not we have to go around the Constitution."
"I would have never released the sanctions [for Iran] before there was consistent evidence of compliance."
"It's a little different when you spend 30 years developing all these companies that we just ask [Donald Trump] to sell them. So I don't think that's a fair request."
"America's not the world's policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act."
"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 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."
"What most Americans don't realize is there is an unholy alliance. They come together. There's a secret handshake. We spend more money on everything. And we are not stronger nation if we go further into debt. We are not projecting power from bankruptcy court."