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" I think that Rand Paul represents a segment of the GOP, just like his father. And I think he is trying to expand that, intelligently, to make it larger. "

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" I guess my view is I believe less governance is best governance and that government should not do what the free enterprise and private enterprise and indidividual entrepreneurship and the states can do. "

" You raise taxes during an economic crisis time, as we did in - back in the time of Herbert Hoover, you send the country into a depression. "

" I don't think Roger Ailes is ham-fisted. "

" We cannot have a separate group of people that are military and a separate civilian society. Otherwise, it's dangerous to democracy. "

" We are an important check on the powers of the executive. Our consent is necessary for the president to appoint jurists and powerful government officials and, in many respects, to conduct foreign policy. Whether we are of the same party, we are not the president's subordinates. We are his equal! "

" The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless. "

" The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government. "

" The United States must look beyond Mr. Putin. His regime may appear imposing, but it is rotting inside. His Russia is not a great power on par with America. It is a gas station run by a corrupt, autocratic regime. "

" I admire the Islam. There's a lot of good principles in it. "

" I think ISIS can do terrible things. "

" It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands of justice, morality, and conscience. "

" Americans and Europeans share a common goal - to build an enduring peace based on freedom. "

" I don't think anybody is - no one could compare to Ronald Reagan, because he was the right man at the right time. "

" If you want to preserve - I'm very serious now - if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started. "

" Whenever America sends its citizens into harm's way, it must do so with eyes wide open. "

" My record shows that I have put my country first, and I follow the philosophy and traditions of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. "

" When Barack Obama won in 2008, in 2009 I voted for his team because I think that - that the American people wanted him to have his team. But don't think I wasn't worried about it. Really worried. "

" For much of my life, the Navy was the only world I knew. It is still the world I know best and love most. "

" I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA. "

" I think that Fox News is a bit schizophrenic. "

" Countries, not just their armies, win wars. "

" I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline. "

" On the issue of the gay marriage, I believe if people want to have private ceremonies, that's fine. I do not believe that gay marriages should be legal. "

" Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her. "

" And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat? "

" Some men are much more self-sufficient than others. "

" Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. "

" On Putin's order, corrupt apparatchiks and crony oligarchs rob Russians of their nation's wealth and resources. "

" The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America. "