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" All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education. "
World
Competition
Best
" America is big enough to accommodate differences of opinion and practice on religious and social beliefs. As a nation and as a society, we must reject discrimination, forcefully and without asterisks. Most importantly, as president, I will zealously defend the Constitution of the United States and all of its amendments. "
Constitution
America
Society
" Am I not correct in saying that Iran has never voiced that they are developing a nuclear weapon, nor do they have any intention of using a nuclear weapon against the United States? That's never actually been voiced. I don't know where that has come from, but it hasn't been from Iran. "
Know
Intention
Against
" Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good. "
Movement
Good
Disease
" As governor of New Mexico, I would have - I signed a bill banning late term abortion. I've always favored parental notification. I've always favored counseling. I've always favored the notion of no public funds used for abortion. "
Always
Abortion
New
" As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it. "
Own
Doing
Change
" At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains. "
Paul
Brains
Opinion
" At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. When I get stopped at the stoplight in the middle of the night, and there's just no cars coming, and the light is red, I go. I don't think I'm putting anyone in harm's way, and I'll just take the consequences. Because I'm a Libertarian. "
Night
Think
Light
" At the end of the day, Democrats go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far left; Republicans go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far right. Hey, there's a big middle ground here that's not represented. I think that, Bill Weld and myself, I think the Libertarian Party really occupies that ground. "
Day
Myself
End Of The Day
" Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair. "
Fair
Balance
Tax
" By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight. "
Better
Country
Crime
" Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death. "
Death
End
People
" Everyone else is parsing it in terms of lowering the corporate income tax. Eliminate it. It's not that big of a generator of income, and it's a double tax. Get rid of it, and you would have an explosion of hiring. "
Hiring
Big
Double
" Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party. "
Party
Single
Think
" Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom. "
Freedom
You
Time
" Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference. "
Enjoy
Thought
Think
" Given the divisiveness and pain that have accompanied several state religious freedom laws, I approach attempts at legislating religious exceptions to anti-discrimination laws with great sensitivity and care. "
Freedom
Laws
Care
" Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government. "
Money
Capitalism
Government
" Hillary - at the end of the day, isn't that going to be about bigger government? Isn't that going to be about more taxes? "
Government
End Of The Day
End
" I agree that the two-party system stomps on any kind of competition. A great first step is to open the presidential debates to all qualified candidates, including the Libertarians. If that happens, the Libertarian party will experience unprecedented growth. "
Experience
Growth
Competition
" I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed. "
I Am
Protect
Care
" I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe. "
I Am
Blue
You
" I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area. "
Strong
Security
Believe
" I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans. "
Balance
Lie
Legal
" I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit. "
Everest
Quit
Mount Everest
" I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it. "
Civil
Civil Rights
Like
" I don't believe there should be any restrictions when it comes to firearms. None. "
Believe
Any
Should
" I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense. "
Starts
Sense
Life
" I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do. "
Seek
Counsel
Speak
" I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal. "
Alcohol
Terrible
Drink
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