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I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

Allen West

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Allen West
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 7
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Where is love exchanged? Where is the love felt when a state administrator stuffs a welfare check into an outgoing mail?
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I'll give you a great example of an issue that no one brought up during this Florida primary, the fact that we're going to have a Chinese made oil rig put in place about 60 miles off the coast of Florida.
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Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.
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Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.
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Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.
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Indeed, there are Islamic terrorist training camps in America
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Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.
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You have an imperial presidency that makes Richard Nixon look like a boy scout.
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It would be nice if Patrick Murphy was half as upset about Democrats removing God and Jerusalem from their platform, or booing when they were added back in, as he is pretending to be about our new tv ad which simply points out what happened.
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It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation
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When did 'Ask not what your country can do for you' become 'Ask only what your country will give you'?
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When dealing with illegal immigration, the answer is simple enforce Constitutional mandates, and you will protect Floridians and the American people.
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We believe in humility and integrity, the spirit of one people, bound together under God. We understand that the Constitution was written to control and regulate the government, not the people.
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There's a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says 'we are here because we care about you we want what's best for you'. But really what they want is the control of your life.
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We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.
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One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.
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For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former soldier, I'm here to set that record straight.
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Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.
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I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.
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Are we witnessing an Obama 'Wag the Dog' moment with Boko Haram in Nigeria? I say yes.
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