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I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.
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My dad was one of only four congressmen who supported Reagan.
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Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
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I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.
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To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.
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General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.
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America has much greatness left in her.
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I have a biology degree, okay?
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I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
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America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
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The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.
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The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
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We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. That's where you sell something, and I agree to buy it because I like it. That is how we operate in most of rest of the marketplace other than health care.
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I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health is a great idea.
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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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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.
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A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
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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.
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Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.
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The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.
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Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.
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I think young people of all races are interested in justice; maybe not so much taxes and regulations, but they're interested in justice and the right to privacy on the Internet.
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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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