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I'd like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.

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I'm a part of the GOP and let me tell you what my stance is. My stance is that, we the people have the responsibility to take care of the indigent in our society. It's not the government's job. You can read the Constitution all you want, it never says that it is the government's job and I think where we've gotten confused.
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Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.
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I just happen to believe that people are not stupid.
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When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.
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I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.
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Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
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Ruthless is not necessarily the word I would use, but tough, resolute, understanding what the problems are, and understanding that the job of the president of the United States is to protect the people of this country and to do what is necessary in order to get it done.
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I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn't look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it's going to be fine.
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I never had money for anything. But I tell you what did really work - books. Between the covers of those books I could go anyplace, I could be anybody, I could do anything.
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If we recognize our talents and use them appropriately, and choose a field that uses those talents, we will rise to the top of our field.
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I would love us to bring back our Juedo-Christian values and begin to teach those things, at a time other than a political election.
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What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that if affects all of our military policies.
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I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.
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What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.
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Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.
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The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard.
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I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?
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When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.
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