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" The truest statesmanship to which any feeble mortal can ever aspire is the sincere effort to apply the Savior's principles to human government. "
Trent Franks
Human
Government
Effort
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" The president and the administration had a duty to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, but powerful constituencies of the president did not want the president to defend it. And unfortunately, politics trumped duty. "
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" I believe if Mr. Obama is reelected, and Israel somehow is unable to interdict the Iranian nation from gaining nuclear weapons themselves, this administration unfortunately, I'm afraid, will allow Iran to gain a nuclear weapon and then pursue what they believe would be the traditional policy of containment. "
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" Obviously, there's always a battle over philosophical leanings and persuasions, but the bottom line here is that Americans need to understand that this is an ideology in jihadist terrorism that is dangerous beyond words, and we need the moderate Muslim voices to be heard here if this is to be diminished in Islam itself. "
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Understand
" I would want THAAD outside in our backyard, if we could get the military to put one there, because I believe it will be a protection to my children and no danger to them. "
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Will
Want
Believe
" Pakistan has done some really terrible things, and yet they also have facilitated our military capabilities in ways that are critical to our country. "
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Things
" I have nothing but the greatest respect and affection for Kevin McCarthy. "
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Affection
Nothing
Respect
" If we have to do enhanced interrogation on terrorists, then I can live with that. "
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Enhanced
I Can
Live
" Businesses - we protect our businesses with the guns, our banks, our money. We protect politicians with guns. "
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Guns
Protect
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" I think cutting our defense capacity not only demonstrably diminishes our national security, but it has a tremendous negative impact in the long run on our economy because we end up having to fight wars and clean up after terrorist disasters. "
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" If U.S. focuses on truth and justice, we'll realize that Israel has been there for 3,000 years - the same language, the same people, the same culture for 3,000 years - and it's always astonishing to me that we somehow now think that they're the occupiers. "
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Culture
Truth
Justice
" If Donald Trump is our nominee, I don't think that he represents the best our party has to offer either in temperament or qualification, and I think he's the weakest candidate that is in the race at this point in terms of the general election, and that to nominate him is to give Hillary Clinton a much better chance of being president. "
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Best
Better
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" If Iran gains a nuclear weapon, we will need a new calendar in the world - it would change humanity that much. Iran will give these weapons to terrorists the world over, and your children and mine will step into the shadow of nuclear terrorism. "
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Shadow
Children
Change
" The notion that the levels of radiation would be damaging to human life is preposterous. It's simply not true. It is a political claim more than it is a scientific claim. THAAD has been a thoroughly tested system, and it has been extremely effective. "
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Life
Political
More
" The comment that I've made is that if unaccompanied minors can cross the border, then certainly trained terrorists probably can, too. "
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Then
Border
Comment
" I so respect Sen. McCain's service to this country, and no one certainly knows more about torture than he does, and so I recognize that. "
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Service
Torture
Country
" President Shimon Peres has embodied a commitment to the mutual values shared by the United States and Israel - values that include the preservation of life, faith, family and freedom. "
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Life
Family
Commitment
" We must carefully examine regulations that could threaten the state of Arizona's water and power supply. "
Trent Franks
Regulations
Must
Power
" When you don't have a voice like Michele Bachmann's, who personifies all of the good things that the Tea Party has come to mean to America, then it's more difficult to have any sort of unified or representative message with the same profile in the media. "
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Media
Tea
America
" At present, it's not really clear who is in charge of protecting the nation from solar and nuclear EMP. "
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Charge
Nation
Present
" The reality is for 50 years in this country, federal law has required people that are illegal - or that are immigrants - or that are legal immigrants to this country to carry documentation to that effect. And that has been the law for 50 years. "
Trent Franks
Legal
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Immigrants
" I hope I say this the right way, but I'm convinced that Israel will not trust other countries to do what they have to do to protect their own security. "
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Own
Way
Trust
" I think Paul Ryan would make a great speaker. And people like him are the kinds of people that we need. "
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Him
Think
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" We have to defeat them on the battlefield and in the marketplace of ideals. And PBS, I believe, owed the nation the chance to hear the moderate Muslim voices who decry terrorism and Jihadism, and they didn't give them that chance, and that's a terrible thing. "
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Chance
Believe
I Believe
" Mr. Gingrich has a number of elements in his record that could be criticized accurately. But to suggest that he was somehow anti-Reagan or to suggest that Reagan was anti-Gingrich is preposterously untrue. "
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Elements
Number
Could
" A big goal of the liberal Democrats in Congress is to try to do away with any effective cooperation to enforce federal immigration laws. "
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Cooperation
Immigration
Goal
" The franking commission is not there to fact-check. "
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Commission
" Sometimes we have to take measures to protect the innocent that we do not like. Severe interrogations are sometimes part of doing that. "
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Innocent
Sometimes
Protect
" Either the Obamacare is a dead letter, or the origination clause is; we can't have both. "
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Both
Obamacare
Letter
" My own wife is from the Philippines and came here legally to this country, and there are a lot of people that want to be part of this nation, and I want them to be part of this nation. "
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People
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My Own
" I think if you hearken back to partial-birth abortion... everybody said, you know, it's not constitutional. It can't pass; it can't go anywhere, and it took time to do that, and it even had to succeed a presidential veto. But it eventually did. "
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