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We need somebody ready to be commander-in-chief on day one, who understands there are no moderates in Iran; they've been killed a long time ago.
Donald Trump says five things: everyone's dumb, he's going to make America great again, we're going to win, win, win. He's winning in the polls.
I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have access to a fair trial and an impartial tribunal.
It's important to remember that some of our best sources in the war against radical Islamic terrorism are Muslims, both in America and overseas.
Under the Constitution, the president, not the Senate, nominates and appoints judges. The Senate has a different role. We must give our advice .
There is a legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there should be a difference between a police response and a military response.
First of all, I don't think that America is truly prepared for a biological or a chemical attack. However, we are moving in the right direction.
This is nothing new. It has proved meritorious because we have gathered significant information on bad guys and only on bad guys over the years.
The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world.
We're seeing conservatives and evangelicals and libertarian and Reagan Democrats all coming together as one, and that terrifies Washington, D.C.
I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.
The future of the Republican Party and the future of America is based on a values system and the issues that drive those values are on our side.
People ask me about if, being a Republican, you guys want to cut everything and stop everything and not help people. I find that patently false.
At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.
Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.
It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money.
What we need to do is to stand up to the big money interests, and the campaign contributors. When we do that, we can, in fact, transform America.
I believe that if you have faith in your own abilities then in the end others will have faith in them too, even if they need a little persuading.
One of the very hallmarks of our nation is the ideal of E Pluribus Unum. It is a concept that richly flows from the highest ideals of our nation.
'Hamilton' is one of the best things I've ever seen on a stage, and for a guy who loves American history, hip-hop and theater, it was pure bliss.
I think the greatest threat to the privacy of Americans is the drone, and the use of the drone and the very few regulations that are on it today.
Nuclear weapons present us with a paradox: We spend billions of dollars building and maintaining them in the hope that we never have to use them.
I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody.
I won't stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so.
We need more American energy. It keeps wealth at home. It keeps our wealth from ending up in Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. It creates jobs at home.
Our nation's continued prosperity hinges on our ability to solve environmental problems and sustain the natural resources on which we all depend.
My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.
The French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who is still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it.
I have said from the beginning that Pat Buchanan left the Republican Party the day he questioned America's involvement in defeating Nazi Germany.
As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.
Anybody who believes the surge has not succeeded, militarily, politically and in most other ways, frankly, does not know the facts on the ground.
The press pool was taking bets on how many months I would last. There was nobody in the state who thought I had any shot at being a good senator.
I do believe that Planned Parenthood provides vital services to those in need and disagree with its funding cuts contained in the H.R. 1 package.
I think it's fair to say that women have a different level of intuitiveness that allows them to perhaps handle situations a little bit different.
For Tammy Duckworth to blame the junior senator from Illinois for Islamic terror shows that she is a naive fool not fit for office in the Senate.
I thought the Pence selection ought to reassure the right-of-center voters that a Trump administration would be a right-of-center administration.
If we could get the corporate tax rate down to, let's say, a maximum of 25 percent, it would be a sea change for this country. It would be great.
Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.
I do want to see an immigration compromise. And you can't have an immigration compromise if everybody's out there calling the president a racist.
Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
I'm not opposed - we manufacture a lot of socks in North Carolina - I just choose not to wear them. It's a Southern thing. It's a cultural thing.
If Republicans want to defend the rights of corporations and billionaires to spend unlimited, secret money in campaigns, then they should say so.
People feel these job-killing trade agreements have really squeezed the middle class and caused lots of people to lose their middle-class status.
Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?
We need to recognize the incredible challenges that so many parents face, especially working moms. We need to join the rest of the advanced world.
When I was a young boy, I can remember in the community that I grew up in, seeing people in the community who had numbers that were on their arms.
Today, over half of American workers have less than $10,000 in savings and have no idea how they will be able to retire with any shred of dignity.
The Mental Health Reform Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in 2016. It was one of my proudest moments in Congress.