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" I think Republicans really need to be disciplined, to stay focused on sustained economic growth. "

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" We should have a path to legal status for the 12 million people that are here illegally. It means, come out from the shadows, pay a fine, earn legal status by working, by paying taxes, learning English. Not committing crimes and earn legal status where you're not cutting in front of the line for people that are patiently waiting outside. "

" And we should be a welcoming nation. Our identity is not based on race or ethnicity, it's based on a set of shared values. That's American citizenship. "

" I'd be wary of simple solutions to complex problems. "

" I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically. "

" We had rising student achievement across the board because high standards, robust accountability, ending social promotion in third grade, real school choice across the board, challenging the teachers union and beating them is the way to go. "

" Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism. "

" Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned. "

" Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late. "

" Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids. "

" There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination. "

" We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end. "

" I get to advocate issues and ideas that I believe in. "

" Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay. "

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" I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.' "

" We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis. "

" Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to be principled and oppose views that you don't agree with, but you also have to have an alternative. "

" If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities. "

" We need to focus our energies there, not these broad, blanket, kind of statements that will make it harder for us to deal with ISIS. We need to deal with ISIS in the caliphate. We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are. "

" Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars? "

" Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission. "

" When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around. "

" The dual effect of high growth creating higher income that's taxed by government at all levels, combined with lessening demands placed on government that occurs during economic prosperity, is a worthy objective. "

" I've been so blessed to be part of a family that has dedicated its life to public service. "

" Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart. "