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There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.'

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Allen West
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 7
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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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When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going.
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This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.
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It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation
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I find it hilarious when Obama's hand gets caught in the cookie jar
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I think that there is a changing wind. There are black conservatives out there, and their voices need to be heard.
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The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality.
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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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You have an imperial presidency that makes Richard Nixon look like a boy scout.
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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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Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.
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As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.
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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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Are we witnessing an Obama 'Wag the Dog' moment with Boko Haram in Nigeria? I say yes.
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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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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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If it's about the lives of my soldiers at stake, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can.
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Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.
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