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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.' "

Newt Gingrich

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" Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration? "

" I think you can write a psychological profile of me that says I found a way to immerse my insecurities in a cause large enough to justify whatever I wanted it to. "

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" NASA should not be developing its own proprietary version of capabilities it could purchase commercially at much lower cost, especially when we know the agency's bureaucratic tendencies will be to view the commercial versions as competitors to kill. "

" 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. "

" If I had to choose Reaganomics or 13 staffers quitting, I think for the average working American, Reaganomics was a much better deal. "

" If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he's black, we would all go crazy. "

" My style is to stay on the offensive: to take risks, to recover very fast when you make a mistake, but to keep moving forward. "

" I think what you'll find is overall, overwhelmingly, evangelicals would prefer me to Barack Obama. "

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" Philosophically, I am very different from normal politicians, and normal consultants found that very hard to deal with. "

" In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. "

" I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama. "

" I intend to go up there and kick the system over, not try to change it. "

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" Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it. "

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" The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media. "

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" This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain't going to happen. "

" 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. "

" Whether you're talking about Chris Christie, or you're talking about Rick Perry or Scott Walker or John Kasich, there's more interesting evolution at the state level than there is in Washington. "

" 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. "

" Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal. "

" 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. "

" Trump has got to, I think, move to a new level. This is no longer the primaries. He's no longer an interesting contender. He is now the potential leader of the United States and he's got to move his game up to the level of being a potential leader. "

" 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. "

" The fact is inner-city black districts are not the same as suburban Republican districts. That's a fact. And people need to go and learn about the whole country. "

" The one period of glory in NASA was the first nine years when they weren't a bureaucracy yet... and they haven't gotten back to that excitement, that adventurism, and won't. So, I would take most of the NASA budget, and I would turn it into prizes for private sector. "

" 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. "

" One of my messages to Republicans is very simple: One-third of your schedule should be listening to people in minority communities. "

" When you come to America, you get to become an American, and Trump, who has grandparents who came to the U.S., should understand this as much as anybody. "

" I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job. "

" 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. "