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" We have to be as militant defending America as the enemies of America are in trying to destroy America. "
Newt Gingrich
America
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" We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility. "
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" The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument. "
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" I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid. "
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" We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something. "
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" I think what you'll find is overall, overwhelmingly, evangelicals would prefer me to Barack Obama. "
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" What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read. "
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" What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots. "
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" So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine. "
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" I would just say, if Gov. Romney wants to give back all the money he's earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years at Bain, that I would be glad to listen to him. And I would bet you $10 - not $10,000 - that he would not take the offer. "
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" I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee. "
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" I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama. "
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" We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism. "
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" I helped Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp develop supply-side economics. "
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" Politics and war are remarkably similar situations. "
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" You can either be in the Ron Paul tradition and say there's nothing wrong with heroin and cocaine, or you can be in the tradition that says, 'These kind of addictive drugs are terrible; they deprive you of full citizenship, and they lead you to a dependency which is antithetical to being an American.' "
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" I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office. "
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" I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird. "
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" The Central Park Zoo is a little gem in the middle of the city. Its penguin exhibit is terrific, and the seals are a permanent center of attraction for children. "
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" Now, I know among the politically correct, you're not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable. "
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" People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live. "
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" In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated. "
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" Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and terrorists who are dangerous already and who would be brutal in power if given the chance. "
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" Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for 'religious toleration' are arrogantly dishonest. "
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" I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics. "
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" I have an enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. "
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