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#1. I don't believe that everybody should be paid the same. I believe in equal pay for equal work.

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#2. The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.

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#3. The men sometimes do a better job of concealing their hate than the women. With the feminists, you can see it in their faces.

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#4. The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year.

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#5. No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

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#6. The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.

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#7. I believe the public schools are the greatest cultural influence in this country.

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#8. Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

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#9. Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.

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#10. Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

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#11. One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men.

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#12. [President-elect George W] Bush has reached out to these other groups like Blacks and Hispanics ... He ought to do his reaching out to the people who elected him.

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#13. It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.

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#14. Feminists have convinced themselves that any difference between men and women is oppression and that women in the United States are an oppressed minority. This is such a lie. American women are the most fortunate class of people who ever lived on the face of the earth.

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#15. The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.

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#16. Find out if your girlfriend is a feminist before you get too far into it. Some of them are pretty. They don't all look like Bella Abzug.

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#17. Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.

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#18. Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.

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#19. The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.

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#20. People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't.

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#21. The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject.

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#22. National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.

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#23. It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.

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#24. What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

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#25. Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.

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#26. Some of our most successful businessmen in US grew up in orphanages. They were well treated, and they learned discipline. They learned right or wrong, and they have wonderful careers.

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#27. How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?

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#28. Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

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#29. If the woman picks the wrong man, that's not society's problem. That's her problem.

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#30. Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

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#31. The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

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#32. Non-criminal sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for the virtuous woman except in the rarest of cases.

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#33. And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

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#34. I think society is entitled to recognize marriage as an institution that involves one man and one woman.

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#35. My analysis is that the gays are about 5% of the attack on marriage in this country, and the feminists are about 95%.

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#36. The best way to improve economic prospects for women is to improve job prospects for the men in their lives, even if that means increasing the so-called pay gap.

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#37. If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress.

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#38. In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

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#39. When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men?

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#40. [I am] confident that Congress will pass the Kennedy-Hatch KidCare bill, a first step toward the single-payer socialized medicine system that the NEA [National Education Association] has endorsed for years.

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#41. The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine - the big-city machine, the liberal Democrat machine, and the Republican kingmaker machine.

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#42. Presidents don't have a whole lot to say about prosperity or the economy. Government cannot create prosperity. There are a lot of other factors that determine whether there are good times or bad times.

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#43. Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it.

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#44. Women have babies and men provide the support. If you don't like the way we're made you've got to take it up with God.

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#45. Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.

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#46. The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God.

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#47. After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

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#48. Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.

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#49. Many years ago Christian pioneers had to fight savage Indians. Today missionaries of these former cultures are being sent via the public schools to heathenize our children.

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#50. It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

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#51. Nothing about contraception should be taught in schools. There is no question that it will encourage sexual activity.

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#52. I urge young women to look ahead and see if they want to have a lonely old age or do they want to have what I have, which is the joy of 14 beautiful grandchildren.

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#53. Marriage is like pantyhose. It all depends on what you put into it.

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#54. Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.

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#55. The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

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#56. The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.

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#57. The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.

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#58. Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

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#59. History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.

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#60. Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.

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#61. Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

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#62. Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

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#63. When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.

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#64. There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.

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#65. ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.

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#66. What masquerades as sex education is not education at all. It is selective propaganda which artificially encourages children to participate in adult sex, while it censors out the facts of life about the unhappy consequences. It is robbing children of their childhood.

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#67. The feminist movement has spent 30 years putting down the role of stay-at-home moms and trying to tell young women that only someone who is mentally disabled would pick that for a career.

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#68. I think that when you get married you have consented to sex. That's what marriage is all about, I don't know if maybe these girls missed sex ed.

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#69. The American nuclear family made America great, but few are now defending it against forces determined to destroy it. If America continues to have many immigrants with different family types, we are less likely to maintain American values of personal freedom, individualism, and limited government.

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#70. The people the Republicans should reach out to are the white votes, the white voters who didn't vote in the last election. The propagandists are leading us down the wrong path.

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#71. Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

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#72. It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married).

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#73. Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.

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#74. Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.

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#75. The persistent advocates of contraceptive-style sex education have become more and more resourceful in using taxpayer funds to impose their casual-sex attitudes and explicit-sex instruction on other people's children.

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#76. Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.

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