Ken Cuccinelli Quotes
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Unlike in Washington, Virginia's leaders don't run from serious problems. We tackle them.
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Competition's a good thing.
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I'm the most pro-liberty elected official statewide in my lifetime. It isn't even a close call, so for people who care about protecting liberty, there's never been - again, in my lifetime in Virginia - a statewide elected official who's been as aggressive and consistent about doing that as I have.
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On the issues the Tea Party cares about, I land right in their bull's-eye.
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I absolutely believe that President Obama was born in the United States. I don't buy into the claims that he wasn't.
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The notion that those of us that are pro-life because we love children - is that so terrible? Really? Is that so terrible?
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When Eric Cantor lost, being the only majority leader in history to lose a primary, that was pretty - and still is - earth-shattering in Virginia and across the country.
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The first thing in my oath is to uphold and protect the U.S. Constitution.
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The one thing that even my staunchest opponents will admit is I'm a straight shooter and that I'm a man of my word.
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I have been approached to consider an appointment to the Virginia Supreme Court. I am humbled and honored to be considered for such a position, but it is not something that my wife and I have previously contemplated.
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One of my unique features as a politician is that I am so blunt and so forthright, and I put my cards on the table to such a degree people aren't used to, that there's nothing left to hide.
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One of the challenges for lawyers can be explaining, first of all, what the legal issue is and, second, its significance. And both of those are important.
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I'm more of an engineer with a law degree than I am a lawyer with an engineering degree in terms of how I think.
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We don't have a free market in health care. We need to connect customers up with the cost of care. And to drive innovation that way.
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One of the beauties of the Tea Party movement - and the many, many like-minded citizens that don't participate in the Tea Party movement - is the fact that it is independent.
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The media is really failing the American people.
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We need all the transportation options that we can get in Virginia - especially options where the private sector carries all the risk and all the cost.
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I will be the first to admit that I've made my own mistakes when it comes to Virginia's disclosure requirements.
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My view is that homosexual acts - not homosexuality, but homosexual acts - are wrong. They're intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural-law-based country, it's appropriate to have policies that reflect that... They don't comport with natural law.
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I do think a focus on fiscal restraint is a central element of the Tea Party, and thank goodness for it!
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I don't play golf with presidents.
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My wife's a gardener. I'd put Astroturf down everywhere, but I get outvoted one to one every year.
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What we can do where we live is advocate again to bring back to life the 10th Amendment, to bring back to life those boundaries in our constitutional system that were supposed to be the critical checks in the checks and balances system. Without them, we lose - gradually, we lose our liberty.
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Strategies that do show evidence of effectiveness include policing that's focused on high-risk individuals or geographic areas, and/or deterrence-based approaches that hold entire gangs accountable should individual members engage in criminal behavior.