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" When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home. "
Rick Perry
Government
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" Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans. "
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" I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going to loan the money because they can't make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance. "
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" If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He's destroying our economy. I'm a doer, not a talker. "
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" I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses. "
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" Vladimir Putin uses energy to hold our allies hostage. If energy is going to be used as a weapon, I say America must have the largest arsenal. "
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" America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people. "
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" Admit it America - 2008 was our national 'oops' moment! "
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" I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award. "
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" I've always believed the mission is greater than the man. "
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" The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy - they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator. "
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" Our best days are in front of us. We can reform those entitlements, we can change that corporate tax code and lower it. We can put America back on track on a growth level and a growth rate that we've never seen in the history of this country. "
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" We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration. "
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Afford
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" When a criminal breaks into your home I'll let the liberals call the lawyer. I'm going to call Smith & Wesson. "
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Your
Liberals
Lawyer
" Being the Republican front-runner was three of the most exciting hours of my entire life. I've come to grips with it, and the only lasting effect is that I refuse to go on a stage that has more than one podium on it. "
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Three
Go
" Let's make what Americans buy. Buy what Americans make. And sell it to the world. "
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Make
World
Buy
" My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work. "
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" It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel. "
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Time
Nation
" We stand up and proudly proclaim that Washington is not our caretaker and we reject a state, in Margaret Thatcher's words, a state that takes too much from us to do too much for us. "
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Stand
Words
Us
" Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government. "
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Wealth
Government
Success
" Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation. "
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Great
Values
Our
" Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California. "
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" Obama is a president, who I think is anti-jobs. "
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Who
Think
" It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government. "
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Day
" The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure. "
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" We will reverse course on the heavy hand of regulation, discarding Dodd-Frank and any other regulations that advance a political agenda at the expense of jobs and investment on Main Street. "
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Will
Investment
" I didn't say I was running, did I? "
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Running
Did
Say
" In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals. "
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Evil
World
Responsible
" I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family. "
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Man
Woman
Work
" I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally and captivate the conservative movement. "
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