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#1. And many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem cause the science doesn't back them up. And in particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there's been zero warming. None whatsoever.

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#2. In fact, I think we're less safe. We get so distracted by all of the information, we're not spending enough time getting specific immigration - specific information on terrorists.

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#3. Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.

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#4. Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is ... zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on the table right now.

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#5. If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.

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#6. It is as the former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi once observed: Pass it to find out what is in it. That is how Washington does business. Let

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#7. There's not a single Democrat here. It's almost like CPAC invited Benjamin Netanyahu to speak. Well, we could have had Hillary here, but we couldn't find a foreign nation to foot the bill.

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#8. The [Barack] Obama administration wants to take our rights to keep and bear arms away from us. They are trying to take our God, and our gun. And if they do that, they can impose a dictatorship upon us.

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#9. Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you, is challenging. If you go in without a firm foundation, it can undermine what you believe.

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#10. A lot of times your spouse sees things about you that you don't necessarily see.

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#11. My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.

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#12. As president, I wouldn't be making the day-to-day combat decisions. The job of the commander-in-chief is to lay the objective out and then you rely upon the generals and admirals and commanders to give you their expert advice on the tools needed to carry out that objective.

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#13. Whenever anyone does as this ad does, plays the actual words of Donald Trump on national television, his response is to yell, "Liar." Their strategy is simply to yell, "Liar, liar, liar."

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#14. I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.

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#15. I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.

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#16. Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.

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#17. The USA Freedom Act expands that so now we have cell phones, now we have Internet phones, now we have the phones that terrorists are likely to use and the focus of law enforcement is on targeting the bad guys.

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#18. The National Enquirer is complete garbage, it is total lies, it was planted by Donald Trump's henchmen, and I don't think the people of Wisconsin or the people of America have any interest in tabloid trash.

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#19. I think if you're at home and you don't want Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee, then the only candidate who can beat Donald is our campaign. And so I would encourage, even if you like another candidate, stand with us if you don't want Donald to be the nominee.

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#20. Any military force should be dictated by the vital national security interests of the United States. And if and when we use force, we should use overwhelming force for a clearly stated objective. And then when we're done, we should get the heck out.

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#21. My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.

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#22. It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.

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#23. President Obama fuels that perception. That will change when militants across the globe see that when you join ISIS that you are giving up your life, you are signing your death warrant.

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#24. Every single policy Hillary Clinton espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women!

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#25. If I'm elected president, we will secure the border. We will triple the border patrol. We will build a wall that works and I'll get Donald Trump to pay for it.

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#26. I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.

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#27. Marco [Rubio] has more of an allegiance to Chuck Schumer and to the liberals than he does to conservative policy.

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#28. ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them back to the Stone Age!

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#29. The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.

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#30. There are people who wonder if faith is real. I can tell you, in my family there is not a second of doubt.

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#31. We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.

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#32. When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'

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#33. It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

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#34. I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

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#35. We don't have storm troopers that just knock on the door of every American citizen. We don't do that for any crime. But when we have evidence that a particular person has committed a crime, we send law enforcement to apprehend them.

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#36. For families, for parents that don't want to feed their kids GMOs, in the private marketplace there has grown up an abundant market.

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#37. I love Texans. And Texas is clearly the crown jewel of Super Tuesday.

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#38. You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.

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#39. I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.

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#40. Lets us all have an open conversation about what this might mean if [Donald] Trump gets his way or how we might be able to adjust that and make American people safer.

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#41. If we have a biometric exit-entry system, we know on the day after six months has exceeded his visa.And with that exit- entry system, we can then send ICE, the law enforcement agents that exist, to go and get John and say, OK, you're here illegally now.

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#42. It's not a lack of competence that is preventing the[Barack] Obama administration from stopping these attacks. It is political correctness. We didn't monitor the Facebook posting of the female San Bernardino terrorist. She made a public call to jihad, and they didn't target it.

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#43. If we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative: someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.

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#44. I'm a fighter. I am passionate about what I believe. I've been passionate my whole life about the [American] Constitution.

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#45. The Obama-Clinton economy has done enormous damage to the Hispanic community.

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#46. President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.

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#47. What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance.

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#48. There is a better vision for our future: A return to freedom.

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#49. Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.

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#50. When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end to that unbridled audacity of yours swaggering about as it does now?

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#51. The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment.

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#52. The court doesn't follow public opinion. The court's views are radically out of step with public opinion.

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#53. I will fight to defend liberty.

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#54. If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.

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#55. If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.

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#56. How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.

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#57. If I am elected president we will secure the border and we will end the illegal immigration.

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#58. The one thing that might have stopped San Bernardino, that might have stopped 9/11 would have been stricter controls on those who came here.

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#59. I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.

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#60. A debate actually is a policy issue but I will say this - gosh, if you guys ask one more mean question, I may have to leave the stage.

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#61. We see a missile here, a bomb there - looks good on CNN. This is nonsense. This is not a strategy of a serious commander in chief.

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#62. I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

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#63. We are still a nation of laws. You just have to check with Barack Obama every day to see what they are.

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#64. I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to re-ignite the promise of America.

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#65. Donald [Trump]. I understand rules are very hard for you. They're very confusing.

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#66. I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.

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#67. After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.

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#68. We need a president who stands up, number one, and says, we will defeat ISIS. And number two, says the greatest national security threat facing America is a nuclear Iran.

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#69. Donald Trump threatened to file a defamation suit against me for running a TV ad that consisted only entirely of his own words on national television. Now, that's really a remarkable theory, that it is defamation to show people what he said on national TV. I think the voters are smarter than that.

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#70. What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone metadata of millions of law-abiding citizens.

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#71. Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power. Why? Because it is a theory that can never be disproven.

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#72. Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.

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#73. The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.

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#74. The problem we have is not Democrats versus Republicans. It is a Washington cartel. I've said many times the biggest divide we have politically is not between Republicans and Democrats. It's between career politicians in both parties and the American people.

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#75. I'm a big believer that good policy is good politics. And so, when it comes to making decisions on policy issues, what I endeavor to do is simply speak the truth.

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#76. In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.

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#77. The Tsarnaev brothers, the elder brother made a public call to jihad and the [Barack] Obama administration didn't target it.

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#78. The front line with ISIS isn't just in Iraq and Syria, it's in Kennedy Airport and the Rio Grande. Border security is national security.

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#79. Sure, I've listed myself as Cuban-American. That's my heritage and my background.

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#80. We need to focus on radical Islamic terrorists and we need to stop them before they carry out acts of terror.

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#81. The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.

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#82. We need a president that shows the courage that Egypt's President al-Sisi, a Muslim, when he called out the radical Islamic terrorists who are threatening the world.

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#83. I oppose amnesty, I oppose citizenship, I oppose legalization for illegal aliens. I always have and I always will.

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#84. Donald [Trump] has had a long career of using great wealth and power trying to bully others.

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#85. We should expand health savings accounts so people can save in a tax-advantaged way for more routine healthcare needs.

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#86. When you're putting together a campaign for president, like I've been, that entails a lot of time. It's not like I've been at the beach sipping a pina colada.

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#87. If you look at that 2008 Democratic primary, there was no more formidable, unstoppable candidate - other than an incumbent President - in modern times than Hillary Clinton.

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#88. I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

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#89. If we topple [Bashar] Assad, the result will be ISIS will take over Syria, and it will worsen U.S. national security interests.

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#90. Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

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#91. I'm a fan of Jeb Bush's.

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#92. I offer myself as a leader to the people of this country because I think they're looking for solutions, not lawyers arguing over laws or entertainers throwing out sound bites that draw media attention. We need to solve the problem.

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#93. We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.

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#94. If you see a candidate that Washington embraces, run and hide.

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#95. I would do anything and I will continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare.

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#96. No major entitlement, once it has been implemented, has ever been unwound.

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#97. The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

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#98. Do not listen to the rhetoric from campaigns, but rather, hold everyone of us accountable, hold me accountable and every other candidate accountable to be a consistent conservative.

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#99. It's really remarkable to see two candidates,[Donald] Trump and [Marco] Rubio, making things up and putting things out for which there is no evidence and no basis.

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#100. What I endeavor to do is shine a light on what happens at the court, both as a law clerk and then as a litigator litigating and winning major cases in front of the Supreme Court over and over and over again.

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