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I’m not a big believer that you can determine who the weaker candidate is. A lot of people up here then would not have been their choice, obviously there might be some exceptions here or there, but generally the NRSC should be engaged in helping whoever the Republican nominee is to win the general election.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
She was a very competitive candidate. I think I trust the Republican voters in Arizona to pick the nominee, i don’t think Washington should be stepping in to do it.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
There are many issues I think we can work cooperatively with President-elect President Biden, but a blanket amnesty for people who are here unlawfully is n’t going to be one of them.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
There are things we need to do as a committee every year to authorize a moving around of funds, i think the Director of National Intelligence and other heads of intelligence agencies are aware of that. At some point, I'd prefer for them just to call us this morning or tomorrow or whenever and say, ‘Look, this is the arrangement that we think we can reach so that the overseers can get access to this.’ I’d prefer not to go down that road, but it's one of the pieces of leverage we have as Congress.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It's an untenable situation that I think has to be resolved.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Americans should remember Ana Belén Montes for who she really is, despite the fact that she has served her time in prison. If we forget this spy’s story, it will surely repeat itself.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our military should be focused on protecting our national security, not on promoting woke nonsense, the current direction we are heading in is dangerous. If we don’t reverse course, we risk jeopardizing our military strength, national interests and security.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Rather than making the case for American greatness and appealing to our patriotism, the military is just parroting woke nonsense, it’s dumb, it doesn’t work, and it’s dangerous.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Well, he’s doing it to lower gas prices because he’s afraid of the impact. And unfortunately what’s happened now is our strategic reserve is at its lowest level, I believe since 1982 or ’83, we have a strategic reserve for war, for in case of drastic emergency. It doesn’t exist to bail out the president’s party in an election year.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We’re cutting back on supply because we don’t make things in America anymore. We need to bring back manufacturing to this country, and we need to start with energy – natural gas and oil, not only does that make America an easier place to manufacture, an attractive place to manufacture, it would lower the cost of living for millions of Americans almost immediately.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The federal response is to provide the state [with] whatever the state needs or might need, so far, from what I have heard and deduced … no Florida request has gone unfulfilled.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Banning abortion after four months is consistent with Florida law and more permissive than all but two European countries, why doesn’t the media ask Val Demings why she doesn’t support a single restriction on abortions? She is an extremist that supports abortion, for any reason, at any time up to the moment of birth and paid for by taxpayers.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is illegal. The president doesn't have the authority to do this. He's not an emperor. He can't just with the stroke of a pen cancel $300-$400 billion worth of student loans, it's unfair. Eighty-five percent of the people in this country do not have a student loan. They either had one and paid it or they don't have one, and that 85% is gonna pay for the 15% who got a tangible benefit.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The FBI raid was unprecedented for America, but familiar to those in Florida who fled nations where political opposition was criminalized If voters put us back in the majority we better have the guts to subpoena the records make those who authorized this testify under oath.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The The FBI raid was unprecedented for America, but familiar to those in Florida who fled nations where political opposition was criminalized.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Ayatollah is fueling Putin’s war machine and plans to contribute to the deaths of countless innocent Ukrainians, instead of enforcing congressionally mandated sanctions on Iran’s drone program, the administration continues to pursue a disastrous nuclear deal with Tehran.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I want to see the bill, we pass bills around here, not frameworks. But it's got red flags for states, which is a bill I filed four years ago. It should have passed four years ago.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm not against it, i'm just not sure how it will work mechanically.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
South Dakota sounds like they made some progress, but on this issue, the devil is in the details. So, until we see actual legislative details, I won't be able to know.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We had a framework for immigration in 2013, and then we had a bill and that's when people reacted negatively.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Israel's surrounded by enemies, Iran, Hezbollah out of Syria, Gaza, so I just think that they have a very delicate geopolitical balance that they need to keep, a lot of the strikes they conduct and things and activities that have to do against Iran in that region require deconflicting with the Russians, so there just in a tough spot. There's just some realities to their position, their vulnerability.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
You'll see it's an eclectic collection of members of the United States Senate in favor of what we've just done here in the Senate, and that's to pass a bill to make Daylight Saving Saving Time permanent, just this past weekend, we all went through that biannual ritual of changing the clock back and forth and the disruption that comes with it. And one has to ask themselves after a while why do we keep doing it ?
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The good news is that we can get this passed. We don't have to keep doing this stupidity anymore. Why we would enshrine this in our laws and keep it for so long is beyond me, hopefully, this is the year that this gets done. And pardon the pun, but this is an idea whose time has come.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The call to end the antiquated practice of clock changing is gaining momentum throughout the nation, studies have shown many benefits of a year-round Daylight Saving Time, which is why the Florida legislature voted to make it permanent in 2018. I'm proud to reintroduce this bipartisan bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, and give our nation's families more stability throughout the year.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I’m sure you’re aware that the Russian propaganda groups [are] already putting out there all kinds of information about how they’ve uncovered a plot by the Ukrainians to release biological weapons in the country, with NATO’s coordination, if there is a biological or chemical weapon incident or attack inside of Ukraine, is there any doubt in your mind that 100% it would be the Russians that would be behind it?
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It’s not just some rule you pass that everybody has to oblige by. It’s the willingness to shoot down the aircraft of the Russian Federation, which is basically the beginning of World War III.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Generally speaking, I share concerns that some of that may not be getting there fast enough. And even today there has been work done to sort of assess that and make sure that any sort of unnecessary impediments are removed.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's my personal opinion that this guy is going to have to create some new crisis, do something to reset the strategic balance and force everyone to the table with him, it could be a combination of things, including a siege of Kyiv where 3 million people are being starved to death.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
But the second is the most important – I believe, I feel very strongly that Supreme Court nominees are not policymakers, their job is to interpret the constitution and the issue before them – whether they agree with the policy outcome or not is irrelevant.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
So, if someone has a record that clearly evidences that’s how they view their role as a Supreme Court justice, I’ll be supportive, and if they don’t, I won’t. And that’s what I’ll analyze here no matter who he nominates.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Obviously they have to be someone that has the intellect, educational credentials and the like and I’m sure whoever he nominates will.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We have a way of changing the Constitution in this country – it's not the Supreme Court.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Biden administration’s decision to impose a vaccine mandate on cross-border truckers transporting goods to and from Americans makes zero sense, our bill will put an end to this craziness, help relieve the ongoing supply chain crisis, and restore freedom for North American truckers.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Ever since arriving in Washington, Val Demings has made it harder for police to do their jobs while enabling violent criminals, today’s demonstration is solely motivated by her run for Senate, and is too little, too late for the many Americans affected by the uptick in violent crime. This is political opportunism at its worst.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When she decided she wanted to be vice president and tried to impress the Joe Biden people, she chose to begin to attack law enforcement.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Therefore, by prioritizing an individuals’ medical history, health care providers would ensure racial minorities at highest risk of disease, including all other high-risk patients, can receive these life-saving drugs.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Now, going back to the broader issue, everyone here is in favor of this bill, and everyone here is against slave labor of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, and the only impediment is some House rule because this theoretically raises revenue, which it doesn't, then they should just pass the House version of the bill and send it here.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If Taiwan would ever be taken by force … and the U.S. is incapable or unwilling to do anything about it – that is the end, not just of the strength of Chinese Air Force personnel alliances and Chinese Air Force personnel assurances to the different allies in the Asia Pacific region, but it’s the end of them all over the world.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I think it is certainly a poor choice and depending on the decisions that she makes moving forward – dangerous, to see this bank empowered to go out there and co-finance projects that are not in our national interest would be a disaster.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I won't give UC( unanimous consent) to an amendment package that doesn't include my amendment. That's my view of it, now, going back to the broader issue, everyone here is in favor of this bill, and everyone here is against slave labor of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, and the only impediment is some House rule because this theoretically raises revenue which it doesn't, then they should just pass the House version of the bill and send it here.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Foreign nationals should not be able to engage in America’s democratic process, it is illegal for foreign nationals to donate to political candidates, parties, and committees. I will soon introduce legislation to extend that commonsense protection of our political process to ballot initiatives and other referendums. We must do everything we can to protect the votes of American citizens.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
When history looks back at this moment … this is going to be a big deal for decades.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
In a dramatic reversal of their previous guidance, President Biden's CDC has seemingly decided that our businesses, churches, and schools should remain masked up and potentially locked down forever, this new guidance is confusing and Americans are frustrated.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There is only one blockage in Cuba and it is the blockage that the regime has imposed on its people.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Now more than ever, the Cuban people need our support as they fight for their freedom.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Even if the stock rebounds, American investors still have no insight into the company's financial strength because the Chinese Communist party block US regulators from reviewing the books, that puts the investments of American retirees at risk and funnels desperately needed US dollars into Beijing.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
No amount of propaganda can change the fact that the Chinese Communist Party is a murderous, genocidal regime that fears freedom, undermines democracy, destroys cultures, and betrays its people.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
For far too long companies like Nike and Apple and Amazon and Coca-Cola were using forced labor. They were benefiting from forced labor or sourcing from suppliers that were suspected of using forced labor, these companies, sadly, were making all of us complicit in these crimes.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
All evidence is that they continue to provide these products which enabled these human rights abuses, whenever we receive proof of forced labor, we take action and suspend privileges to sell.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Marco’s contrast with Val Demings could not be greater because Nancy Pelosi has no record of results for Florida, since coming to Washington, Nancy Pelosi has voted with Nancy Pelosi nearly 100 % of the time. Nancy Pelosi supported efforts to defund the police, opposed tax relief for working families, and led the effort to put Washington in charge of Florida’s elections. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
None of Val Demings will admit to being a socialist, she probably won't. But she certainly has voted for socialist things.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
He’s the most popular and well-known Republican in the country, his influence is clear and undeniable.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Val Demings called the Minneapolis police proposal to defund the police a reasonable proposal.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, dismissed the idea that the virus could have come from a lab. It was a massive failure in judgment for a prominent public health official, during the campaign, Biden said, I'll choose science over fiction.' Now is his chance to make good on that promise and fire Dr. Fauci.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It’s not because people are lazy, I am not accusing anyone of being lazy. It’s because people are logical.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Number one, the Iron Dome wouldn't need to exist if it wasn't for Hamas and Hezbollah. The reason it exists is because these terrorists have rockets and they use it to try to kill Israelis. That's the reason why it exists.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It’s interesting -- when it came to coming together to impeach Donald Trump for the second time after he was out of office, they put 100 senators in the same room sitting just inches apart for hours at a time over five or six days, apparently COVID was not an issue then. But now, of course, for something like this we can't have that many people in the room sitting next to each other. So it’s kind of silly season here.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I will not be attending, and one of the reasons why is the ticket numbers have been really limited; they’re making people sit in the gallery.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
To me, that ultimately is what will be the defeat of the Castro regime, these men never gave up on the cause and that's the reason why it's still alive today.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
For decades, Congress abused the trust and faith of the American people by handing out earmarks to well-connected businesses, campaign donors, and others who could afford a high-priced lobbyist, those backroom deals led to corruption and waste, and bought votes in Congress for unpopular legislation.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I've read about it, but I've read what people report, I've read what Matt Gaetz's denied. How can anybody opine on something I don't know anything about firsthand ?
Found on CNN 3 years ago
America should always welcome immigrants who want to become Americans. But we need laws that decide who and how many people can come here, and those laws must be followed and enforced, there are many issues I think we can work cooperatively with President-elect Biden, but a blanket amnesty for people who are here unlawfully isn’t going to be one of them.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There are many issues I think we can work cooperatively with President-elect Biden, but a blanket amnesty for people who are here unlawfully isn’t going to be one of them.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
As someone who has been in these battles for nearly two decades, I am under no illusions. I know from my time in the Gang of Eight that passing immigration reform through the Senate particularly is a Herculean task.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
At the stroke of a pen, he literally put thousands upon thousands of hardworking, blue collar union members out of work, these are people that were working on Monday—that were working on Tuesday—and then the president goes into the Oval Office and signs an executive order wiping out the Keystone Pipeline and they’re out of work.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The bottom line is this— I want everyone to be aware of it, we now have a president who talks like a centrist but is governing from the far left, and we’re not going to just be able to sit around here in a honeymoon period and watch these things happen.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
These aren’t just normal executive fiats. This is literally going down the wishlist of the far left and checking them all off.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We now have a president who talks like a centrist but is governing from the far left, and we’re not going to just be able to sit around here in a honeymoon period and watch these things happen.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
And it’s not going to be good one for the country and its not going to be a good one for people and for working Americans or your jobs.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
He has ordered more executive fiats than anyone in such a short period of time—ever. More than Obama, more than Trump, more than anyone, these aren’t just normal executive fiats. This is literally going down the wishlist of the far left and checking them all off.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I agree with the [p]resident that millions of working-class families are in dire need of additional relief, which is why I support $2,000 in direct payments to Americans struggling due to the pandemic.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Remember, months ago Speaker Pelosi and Democrats rejected the Administrations previous offer of $1,200 per adult and $1,000 per child. Thankfully, shes finally stopped holding working families hostage.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I also stand ready to work with my colleagues to make much-needed changes to Section 230 and take steps to ensure the American people can once again have confidence in our elections.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There are legitimate questions, im not accusing anyone of anything, it is perhaps the way he says... but there are a lot of legitimatequestions that I think are important to answer, not just as a member of Congress tohis constituency, but in Republican House if he wants to continue serving in this important role.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Kansas Republican feels very strongly that this election shouldn't have been certified, kansas Republican's going to court. Kansas Republican's making those arguments there now, and that would be consistent with that position that Kansas Republican has. That's not what the decisions of local officials made but if Kansas Republican feels that strongly about it, of course Kansas Republican's going to express that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think every indication is that unless something dramatic changes, Electoral College is going to elect Joe Biden next week, at that point, I would expect the President to acknowledge that even if he doesn't agree with the way we got there.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't know much about Georgia Senate -- so I haven't had a chance to do any of the work on Georgia Senate, we'll wait for the paperwork to come in.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't think The President's going to go write The President memoirs and play golf, i think The President's going to be a voice in American politics irrespective of how this turns out. And The President should be. Tens of millions of Americans voted for The President. The President brought people in the Republican Party that have not voted Republican in their entire lives. It would be foolish to not learn lessons from that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
That hunger and thirst for political leaders who focus on those issues is not going to change, the question is whether someone not named President Trump is able to do what President Trump has done.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We discovered deeply troubling actions taken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I mean the President wakes up in the morning and takes a breath, half the people in this country are upset he's breathing, at least some percent in this country( gets upset). His critics are always going to criticize anything he does, but that's not just him ; that's just the nature of modern American politics.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Many of these professional agitators don't fit a simple left vs right identity, they are part of a growing anti-government extremist movement. They hate law enforcement want to tear the whole system down even if it requires a new civil war.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It means that no single lender is going to be able to come in and take up all the money.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There is a critical need to supplement the (loan) fund to ensure America's more than 30 million small businesses will be able to access this critical lifeline.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I'm reading that some of the big banks, not all, but some, are creating all these crazy restrictions about Mark Warner don't just have to have a small business account with them, Mark Warner might also have to have a credit card, so, let me just say this as nicely as I possibly can : please don't be a bunch of jerks, OK.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't think we can assume that we can keep reconvening the Senate every week.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
For me, the question would not just be whether the President's actions were wrong, but ultimately whether what he did was removable, the two are not the same. Just because actions meet a standard of impeachment does not mean it is in the best interest of the country to remove a President from office.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The time will come to debate U.S. policy. Tonight American allied troops have come under direct attack by a nation-state Americans must come together to support protect them respond appropriately.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Hong Kong police treatment of Hong Kong is an internal matter. It's a matter of Hong Kong police own public policy, hong Kong police have a right to change Hong Kong police law.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We should continue to do more to hold Chinese government and Communist Party officials accountable for potential crimes against humanity being committed in Xinjiang.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I don't think it's a real request, i think President Trump did it to get you guys. I think President Trump did it to provoke you to ask me and others and get outraged by it. President Trump plays it like a violin and everyone falls into it. That's not a real request.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I don't think it's a real request, i think he did it to get you guys. I think he did it to provoke you to ask me and others and get outraged by it. He plays it like a violin and everyone falls into it. That's not a real request.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I don't think he should've done it but that's a far cry from what some people around here are claiming to know as fact that frankly Hunter Biden don't know as fact.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Do I like tariffs as a matter of policy on any given day ? No. What other alternatives do you have to rebalance what has now been 30 years of cheating, lying, stealing and unfairness on behalf of the Chinese ?
Found on CNN 5 years ago
And given their history of repression, Chinese troops massed on border is cause for grave concern.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I get the sense that maybe it's closer than they (Republican leaders) want it to be.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Venezuela only has 3 fighter jets that can fly, if they ever harmed any U.S. aircraft they would soon have zero.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It's frustrating, but I am not sure what we can do about it other than take back the House one day, we will pass bills, but in terms of major pieces of legislation, the kind you spend two weeks working on, that's a lot harder right now.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Our diverse community treats immigrants with dignity and respect ; the Administration should do the same, that starts with a thoughtful plan rather than a rash decision apparently made by some in the Administration without any consultation with the rest of the government.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I don't believe the specific victims of the intrusion have been notified, the concern was that in a number of counties across the country, there are a couple of people with the attitude of :' We've got this ; we don't need your help. We don't think we need to do what you are telling us we need to do.'.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
He is reckless, he's ruthless, he has a penchant for escalation, for taking high risks, confrontational in his foreign policy approach and I think increasingly willing to test the limits of what he can get away with the United States.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It should have been clear to people a long time ago that WikiLeaks and others like that could have been tools of foreign intelligence used to divide America.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I don't think shutdowns are good leverage, it's a lesson I've certainly learned in my time here.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I hope, tactics aside, we can all agree that border security is important for America, and it creates opportunity to do more on these other issues.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We encouraged the President today to follow through with what he's already declared, which is that Maduro is illegitimate. The next logical step is to recognize the president of National Assembly as the rightful president, the administration is by no means trying to make these efforts bipartisan, even if we are the lead on the issue.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Potentially, I have to see the proposal, it depends how it's constructed. I don't want to take away any of the President's leverage, but I don't think shutdowns are good for him -- or for us or for anyone. It's certainly not good for Americans.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I don't care how much money it is, there isn't enough money in the world to purchase back our credibility on human rights. ... Just because a country we're working with did it doesn't mean the US can just shrug its shoulders and say nothing happened here.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We can't say anything about that if we allow Saudi Arabia to do Saudi Arabia and all we do is a diplomatic slap on the wrist.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Just because they're an ally in an important mission, which is containing Iranian expansion in the region, can not allow us to overlook or walk away from that. It undermines our ability to stand for morality and human rights all over the world.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
If they lured this man into that consulate, they went medieval on him, and he was killed and he was chopped up and they sent a death crew down there to kill Jamal Khashoggi and do all this, that would be an outrage.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It will take shape in the next couple of days, i certainly expect our legislation to be in the mix.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It's not traditional to the Republican and conservative movement, if we're going to truly be pro-family, then we have to provide people options for that.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
There's criticism of it because people don't want to touch Social Security so we've got to see what the numbers are and make sure we're not also undermining the program which is not our intent.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
If we're just talking football... there aren't 63 better quarterbacks in the world.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
There is still a lot of thinking on the right that if big corporations are happy, they're going to take the money they're saving and reinvest it in American workers, in fact, they bought back shares, a few gave out bonuses ; there's no evidence whatsoever that the money's been massively poured back into the American worker.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
China knows there are those in the administration that desperately want a deal.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Making changes to their board and a fine won't stop them from spying and stealing from us. But this is too important to be over. We will begin working on veto-proof congressional action.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I hope the administration does not move forward on this supposed deal I keep reading about.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
They are basically conducting an all-out assault to steal what we've already developed and use it as the baseline for their development so they can supplant us as the leader in the most important technologies of the 21st century.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Clearly President Xi personally intervened for #ZTE but replacing sanctions with fine of $300/$400 million is not a good deal, we have leverage to bring fairness back to relationship with #China whose other tech firms Tsinghua,Huawei,BBK,Yiomi & Lenovo rely on U.S. chips as well.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I hope this isn't the beginning of backing down to China, we are crazy to allow them to operate in U.S. without tighter restrictions.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I hope this isn't the beginning of backing down to China.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
We are crazy to allow them to operate in U.S. without tighter restrictions.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
They bought back shares, a few gave out bonuses; there's no evidence whatsoever that the money's been massively poured back into the American worker.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The biggest public service John Kerry can render now is to go away.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The one project we're really going to focus on this year is breaking the info blockade.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I personally have been searching for things that we can do quickly, if you begin to do the things you agree on, it creates a level of momentum.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Our attention span in this country on virtually every issue is 7 to 10 days, and then we pivot. We're one tweet or one story away from focusing on something else.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
There’s this false narrative out there that says just because you want to deal with mental illness means you don’t want to deal with the gun part. I’m willing to deal with the gun part. I don’t think people like this guy or people like him should be able to have any gun, not an AR-15, any gun. We need to create a system that keeps them from getting it.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It should influence everything we do with Iran moving forward, how this case is handled up to this point and from this point forward will in many ways determine U.S. policy towards Iran.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I certainly believe that everything we do – whether Fox News’s pressure on Iran, outreach to Iran or working through third parties – should all be predicated on the assumption that he is alive and that his return to his family is still possible.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
What those are, obviously the administration will make a determination.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I'm much more forceful and open and vocal about criticizing, whether it's Egypt or Saudi Arabia for its human rights record, the White House is convinced they can get better results by addressing those issues in private, one-on-one.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
If any president tries to impede an investigation -- any president, no matter who it is -- by interfering with the FBI, yes that would be problematic. Not just problematic, it would be obviously, you know, a potential obstruction of justice that people have to make a decision on -- any president, that said, we don't know if that's what happened here.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I'm not disputing the press accounts, but I am also not going to accept them.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I have very specific questions and hope they will be answered at some point today.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Basically, the parliamentarian told me, i don't have any initial reaction because I don't have any information.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Once they are out, the armed forces will not be able to control them. Any weapon handed out could end up in the hands of Colombian guerrillas, in the hands of drug trafficking groups or they could even end up in the hands of arms traffickers willing to sell them to terrorists.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Congress and the White House should work together to hold the Bashar Assad regime accountable for its war crimes and impose harsh sanctions against its enablers.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
By acting decisively against the very facility from which Assad launched his murderous chemical weapons attack, President Trump has made it clear to Assad and those who empower him that the days of committing war crimes with impunity are over.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
You cannot have a stable Syria without jihadist elements on the ground as long as Bashar al-Assad is in power.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
This is the area from which those chemical attacks were launched, it's the place you were going to see future attacks come from, particularly targeting innocent civilians.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I'll let them speak for their policy, but tonight's actions show that the days of being able to act with impunity are over when it comes to Bashar al-Assad, there is now an American President prepared to do what it takes to ensure that he does not have the capability, or that his capability to conduct these sort of heinous war crimes is diminished and that he's held accountable.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
If the Russians are there on the ground assisting Assad in the commission of these heinous crimes -- war crimes -- they should answer for that.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
We know that for the better part of this year Assad has been using chlorine bombs against innocent civilians and population centers, and now ... a couple days ago, a nerve agent, sarin.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
My belief that if you're Bashar al-Assad and you read that it is no longer a priority of the United States to have you removed from power, I believe that that is an incentive to act with impunity.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
In this case now, we have very limited options and look, it's concerning that the secretary of state, 72 hours ago or a week ago, last Friday, said that the future's up to the people in Syria on what happens with Assad. In essence almost nodding to the idea that Assad was gonna get to stay in some capacity.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
In this case now, we have very limited options and look, it's concerning that the secretary of state, 72 hours ago or a week ago, last Friday, said that the future's up to the people in Syria on what happens with Assad. In essence, almost nodding to the idea that Assad was going to get to stay in some capacity.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
By any objective measure, President Obama’s unilateral policy changes have failed, and they are not in the best interest of the American people or the people of Cuba, rolling back President Obama's one-sided concessions to the Castro regime, a key campaign promise shared with President-elect Trump, will be a top priority for me next year.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I wish we had better choices for President, but I do not want Hillary Clinton to be our next President. And therefore my position has not changed.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I hope we'll return to Washington quickly, take a day and just pass this funding measure so we can start to get funds flowing.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The growing threat of the Zika virus as a full-blown public health crisis in the United States is a clear call to action.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
When it visits your home state, when it impacts a community you know well, it really gives you pause to think a little bit about your service to your country and where you can be most useful to your country, my family and I will be praying about all this and we'll see what I need to do next with my life in regards to how I can best serve.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It really gives you pause to think a little bit about, you know, your service to your country and where you can be most useful to your country.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It's not just a thought experiment, it's actually been proposed.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
For the first time, I've seen high-level conversations about a way forward here in the Senate and that's a positive development.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There has not been a single democratic opening; not a single change on the island in human rights, in fact, things are worse than they were before this opening.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
America is in the middle of a real political storm, a real tsunami and we should have seen this coming, while we are on the right side.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is clear that while we are on the right side this year, we will not be on the winning side.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
While this may not have been the year for a hopeful and optimistic message about our future, I still remain hopeful and optimist about America.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Obviously the difference is we’ll either be in Utah with a lot of momentum with the wind at our back or we’ll be in Utah after a disappointing night but we’ll be there nonetheless.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
What he is doing is, he is trying to replace us as the single most important power broker in the Middle East.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Tomorrow our plan is to be in Utah campaigning irrespective of tonight. It would be a lot better to go to Utah being the winner of the Florida primary. It will give us a tremendous amount of momentum, it will give us 99 delegates, and that's the way we want to do it tonight.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
January of next year, I will either be president of the United States or I will be a private citizen. If I never hold elected office again, I'm comfortable with that, i can't tell you what's going to happen two to four years from now but I have no plans, no thoughts, no contemplation, no meetings, nothing, about any future political run of any sort.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The only thing that's changed as a result of this opening is that now the Cuban government has more sources of money from which to build out their repressive apparatus.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Despite all this noise that's out there, he needs 60% of the delegates from this point forward in order to be the nominee. Ted Cruz by the way needs 75% of the remaining delegates to be the nominee. That's the real math, i at the end of the day do not believe that Donald Trump will be our nominee and I'm going to do everything possible to keep that from happening and to give the party a choice in me, someone that people aren't going to have to be asked that question about.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think we're having a battle to define conservatism in the Republican Party.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We are being ripped apart as a nation, the President bears some responsibility for some of his rhetoric. People are angry.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
What we need to do for young people in America is give them the chance to fulfill their potential ... That won't happen if we have huge debt and an economy that isn't growing. So we're going to put in policies that help us reduce our debt, grow the economy, and, by the way, deal with student loan debt.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I've never talked to John Kasich about this. Clearly John Kasich has a better chance of winning in Ohio and if a voter concludes that that's the best chance to beat Donald Trump, in Ohio, then they will do that.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
A vote for Ted Cruz and a vote for John Kasich in Florida is a vote for Donald Trump.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The problem is presidents can’t just say whatever they want, i’m not interested in being politically correct. … I’m interested in being correct.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
You’re still going to have hundreds of billions of dollars of deficit that you’re going to have to make up.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Presidents can't just say what they want. It has consequences, i don't want to be so politically correct.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
My kids were embarrassed by it and I, you know, if I had to do it again I wouldn't.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
There should be no confusion in the minds of our enemies that, if captured, they will be sent to the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay to be interrogated.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I believe with all my heart that the winner of the Florida primary next Tuesday will be the nominee of the Republican Party.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I will always have tremendous affection and respect for him despite the fact that -- because of a weird quirk of fate -- we ended up running for the same office at the same time, i did not run for president to stop Jeb Bush. I ran for president because I believe that America's greatest days lie ahead if we do what needs to be done right now in 2016.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
There will be more delegates awarded in Florida than basically any other state that voted tonight combined, there are clearly states in which some of my opponents do better than us because it fits the profile they've targeted. We understood that.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
That is the quandary I'm trying to avoid The Republican Party having to face.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Donald Trump has basically mocked everybody with personal attacks, if there’s anyone who’s ever deserved to be attacked that way, it’s Donald Trump.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
He's always calling me Little Marco. And I'll admit he's taller than me. He's like 6'2, which is why I don't understand why his hands are the size of someone who is 5'2, and you know what they say about men with small hands? You can't trust them.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Donald Trump has basically mocked everybody with personal attacks, if there’s anyone who’s ever deserved to be attacked that way, it’s Donald Trump.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The primary's over, I mean, by the admission of the candidates who have admitted they can't win the primary, they've said the only way they can win is at a floor fight in Tampa. And I think that a floor fight in Tampa would be the worst possible thing we can do in terms of winning in November.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think we are at a stage now where at least two of the candidates have openly admitted that the only way they're going to be able to win the nomination is to have a floor fight in Tampa in August, there's no way that anyone can convince me that having a floor fight at the convention in Tampa in August is a recipe for victory in November. On the contrary, I think it's a recipe for disaster.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Well, I had hoped in this process we would have -- the voters would wake up and see what Donald Trump is, a con artist, and I think we were all caught off guard by how much the attention in coverage has really lifted him.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Sixty-five percent of the people who voted yesterday across Super Tuesday did not vote for Donald Trump, he underperformed in virtually every state of the map.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Let’s not forget that last night was supposed to be Ted Cruz’s big night. It was the night where he was going to sweep. The states were tailor made for the kind of campaign he was running. We beat him in Georgia. We beat him in half the states on the map.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We basically fought Donald Trump to a draw. And had it been a narrower field, we would have won Virginia.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Every now and then, someone like that needs a taste of their own medicine because that's called a bully and he’s using the pulpit of the presidency or the presidential run to insult people.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
You say, 'David Duke' to me, I say, 'racist,' immediately, why wouldn't he condemn the Ku Klux Klan? There is no room in the conservative movement and there is no room in the Republican Party for members of the Ku Klux Klan or racists like David Duke.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't care how bad the earpiece is, Ku Klux Klan comes through pretty clearly.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Unfortunately today, there are a significant number of our fellow Americans in the Republican Party who have chosen, at least for the moment, to support someone who appeals to their fears and anxieties.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
He put out a picture of having makeup put on me at the debate. Which is amazing to me that the guy with the worst spray tan in America is attacking me for putting on makeup. Donald Trump likes to sue people. He should sue whoever did that to his face with that.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
There are people who borrowed $36,000 to go to Trump University, and they're suing now — $36,000 to go to a university that's a fake school, and you know what they got? They got to take a picture with a cardboard cutout of Donald Trump.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I believe he is a first-rate con artist and is on the verge of taking over the party of Lincoln and Reagan.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Absolutely, we can [ continue ] because we’re going to pick up a lot of delegates.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
He's learning how to spell, but he's flying around on 'Hair Force One' and tweeting. So here's the one tweet he put out. He put out a picture of having makeup put on me at the debate. Which is amazing to me that the guy with the worst spray tan in America is attacking me for putting on makeup. Donald Trump likes to sue people. He should sue whoever did that to his face with that.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Our party, after four states have voted, according to all the polls, is on the verge of being taken over. The party of Lincoln and Reagan is on the verge of being taken over by a con artist named Donald Trump.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
He’s a con man who’s taking advantage of people's fears and anxieties about the future, portraying himself as some sort of strong guy, he’s not a strong guy. He’s never faced real adversity before.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Guys, we have a con artist as the front-runner of the Republican Party.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's not that I look like a little boy, i wouldn't even be the youngest president -- but he would be the oldest president ever elected, and that's like an eight year term, so you start to worry.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's time to pull his mask off so people can see what we are dealing with here, friends do not let friends vote for con artists.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Donald Trump has never punched anyone in the face. Donald Trump was the first guy that begged for Secret Service protection.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
My father was a bartender at a hotel and my mother was a maid, the kind of people Donald Trump hires from other countries.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
'He is a chocker. And once a chocker, always a' -- a choker, I guess that's what he meant to say.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
This is the most important government job on the planet. And we're about to turn over the conservative movement to a person that has no ideas of any substance on the important issues.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
A lot of these positions that he's taken now are new to him.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have an incredible decision to make, not just about the direction of America but the identity of our party and the conservative movement. The time for games is over, i know you had a lot of choices to make, but now it's time to narrow it down and I'm asking you to get behind me ... so we can bring an end to this silliness, this looniness.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
You're the only person on this stage that's ever been fined for hiring people to work on your project illegally.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald Trump would be right now? Selling watches in Manhattan.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's bad for our economy, it's a health care law that is basically forcing companies to lay people off, cut people's hours, move people to part-time. It's not just a bad health care law, it's a job-killing law, and I will repeal it as president and we will replace it with something substantially better for all Americans.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The problem with the executive order is it is unconstitutional, the President doesn't have the power to do that. And he himself admitted that.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We cannot have a commander in chief that is not ready the first day in office, because Valdimir Putin is not going to wait for the next president to catch up, there is no honeymoon period in foreign policy.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Here's what we cannot do, we cannot pass policies that will do nothing for the environment but will destroy our economy.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
This has become a three-person race, and we will win the nomination.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Perhaps he hasn’t been giving money to the veterans or to the disabled like he’s been telling us he’s been doing. I think that’s the reason there’s a bombshell [in his returns].
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Until there's some consolidation here, you're not going to have a clear alternative to Donald Trump, if we don't come together, we're never going to be able to provide a clear alternative to the direction that Donald Trump wants to take the Republican Party and the country.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think that's been pretty clear now, The problem is that they're divided up among four people ... in South Carolina it was five people. Before that it was seven people.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I am as conservative as anyone else in this race, but I am a conservative who will win this race.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Donald has a base of support and if the majority of our party doesn't want him as our nominee, we'll continue to work toward consolidating that.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The culture of that campaign is to make things up and say things that aren't true every single day.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Obviously I have ties to Las Vegas that run deep given my time growing up here. ... but I'm not sure that's going to be enough to simply be a determinate factor in the caucus, i think it's going to be like every other candidate that's coming in, we're going to have to compete hard.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The sooner we coalesce, the better we can do as a party, it’s going to happen one way or another.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
You're down to three candidates who are running full-scale national campaigns.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I didn't just become a conservative two years ago, but I'm a conservative who can unite our party, grow our party.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Who do the Democrats fear most? Who do they not want to run against? I think everyone now acknowledges that's me, we've got to bring the Republican Party together. We're not gonna win -- we're not going to beat Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders -- if we're still divided in September or October.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Tonight here in South Carolina, the message is pretty clear, the country is now ready for a new generation of conservatives to guide us into the 21st century.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Look, this is a pattern. This is a game he plays. He says something that's edgy and outrageous and then the media flocks and covers that and then no one else can get any coverage on anything else, and that worked when there were 15 people running for president. It's not going to work anymore. I'm going to spend zero time on his interpretation of the Constitution with regards to eligibility.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
And that worked when there were 15 people running for president. It's not going to work anymore. I'm going to spend zero time on his interpretation of the Constitution with regards to eligibility.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
This country is now ready for a new generation of conservatives to lead us into the 21st century.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I have no problem whatsoever with people of either gender serving in combat so long as the minimum requirements necessary to do the job are not compromised, now that that is the case, I do believe Selective Service should be opened up for both men and women.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Marco Rubio and Barack Obama have shaken hands. There are plenty of photos of him shaking hands, if they don’t like the picture we picked, then send me a picture they like of Marco Rubio shaking hands with Barack Obama and we’ll swap it out.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I said that DACA has to go away and that it will, i will on my first day in office get rid of it because it's unconstitutional.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't think we can immediately revoke that, it cannot be the permanent policy of the United States, but I'm not calling for it to be revoked tomorrow, or this week or right away.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think the Holy Father recognizes or should recognize -- and I believe he does -- how generous America is, we accept, every year, close to a million or over a million people every year as permanent residents of the United States. No other country even comes close.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
As far as building walls on the border, the wall is not just about immigrants, it's also about, potentially, terrorists crossing that border, not to mention the drugs that are coming across that border and the human trafficking that's occurring because people know they can get people across the border.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
A child that's born with four strikes against them is going to struggle to succeed unless something breaks that cycle.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
There has to be a way to deal with this issue that continues to protect the privacy of Americans, but creates some process by which law enforcement and intelligence agencies could access encrypted information.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'm a little old to be going to a rave. Although I have the boots for it!
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I primarily like classical music, particularly Baroque music.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't know, this back and forth is silly, ultimately it's not about me, it's not about Ted, it's not about Donald. It's about what is this country going to look like when my 15-year-old graduates from college.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
In less than five years, 83% of the federal budget will be consumed by Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the interest on the debt, that means we will only have 17% of our budget left for everything else, including the military. That's unacceptable. That's a debt crisis.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I have a record of good judgment on those issues, in 2011, when Moammar Gadhafi was facing his overthrow in Libya, I argued that if that became a protracted conflict it would leave a vacuum that would be filled by jihadists and that's exactly what happened.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
There's no other way to describe that -- it's a lie. When you say something that's not true, it's called a lie. That's the definition of it, on this campaign, he is saying things that are not true, and he's saying it repeatedly, and he knows they're not true.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
There's no other way to describe that -- it's a lie. When you say something that's not true, it's called a lie. That's the definition of it.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
On this campaign, he is saying things that are not true, and he's saying it repeatedly, and he knows they're not true.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The bottom line is, there's been this disturbing pattern the last couple of weeks of Ted Cruz saying things that are not true. Just in the last week, he's lied about my record on marriage. He's lied about my record on Planned Parenthood. Of course he lied about Ben Carson in Iowa. Last night Donald Trump says he's issuing robocalls, doing the same thing to him. And then he also isn't telling the truth about immigration.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I mean, he goes around portraying himself as this purist -- you know, Ted Cruz, the purist on immigration. But I was there two, three years ago, when he was passionately arguing at the committee that we needed to pass immigration reform and needed to bring people out of the shadows.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't think the Senate's going to move on it, and I agree with that decision.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
There's a reason for that, and the reason is that the next president should have a chance to fill that void, and not someone who's never going to answer to the electorate again.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Well, unfortunately it created a distraction that didn't allow us at the end of the campaign there to close with our message because everybody wanted to talk about the fact that I said the same thing a couple times, and it was a mistake in the sense that, I mean what I was trying to avoid, Wolf, was kind of an inner party fight, I don't like Republican-on-Republican violence in these debates.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think Chris was someone who somehow concluded that attacking me would help him in his campaign, obviously it didn't work.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We raised more money after this debate than any debate we've ever had and we're excited about it, and there's a reason they attacked me more than anyone else.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Not just that debate, but every debate before it, I've shown consistently the ability to answer important and difficult questions I think in a very compelling way, we raised more money after this debate than any debate we've ever had and we're excited about it. And there's a reason they attacked me more than anyone else.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We can't afford to lose this election and if I'm the nominee, we won't.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
If you get a call on Tuesday night saying I dropped out, it isn't true. It's a lie. Don't believe it.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
When I'm president, sanctuary cities are going to lose their federal funding.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'm tired of being divided against each other for political reasons like this President's done, always pitting people against each other. Always. Look at today: He gave a speech at a mosque. Oh, you know, basically implying that America is discriminating against Muslims.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I have never said that. And I have never advocated that, what I have advocated is that we pass law in this country that says all human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection. In fact, I think that law already exists. It is called the Constitution of the United States.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'm not running to beat up on other Republicans, ultimately, I'm running to unify this party.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't think the American people expect us to round up and deport 12 million people.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
But I'm not gonna ram anything down anyone's throat, and we're not going to do it through unconstitutional executive orders like this president now.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I give us the best chance ... to nominate a real conservative who can unite the party, grow the party... and ultimately defeat Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, the Democrats admit that I am the one they don't want to run against.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Over the last couple years, I've gotten really interested into electronic dance music. So, Avicii, Calvin Harris, i just like it because the lyrics are clean, so I can listen to it in front of my kids and not worry about it.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I just like it because the lyrics are clean, so I can listen to it in front of my kids and not worry about it.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I will be our nominee because of what you have done here in this great state.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It’s not enough to just be angry, anger is not a plan. Anger is not solution.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
When I am our nominee, we are going to unify this party and we are going to unify the conservative movement.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Here's how we win: We win by having more delegates than anyone else, and more than half the delegates.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Sure, this is a very unusual year. No one is unbeatable. This election is not going to be decided by one or two states. I think the race will narrow after a couple states.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Donald's the greatest show on Earth. He's very entertaining, but this campaign isn't about that, it's got to be about the serious issues confronting the country, because if we get this election wrong, there may be no turning back on some of these issues.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
But this whole notion Ted has that he's the only conservative, I think as people learn more about his record, they'll realize what he really is is very calculating, he's always looking to take whatever position it takes to win votes or raise money, and we're not going to beat Hillary Clinton with someone that will say or do anything to get elected.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think people are starting to learn the truth about Ted on immigration and a bunch of other issues that show a history of calculation -- and that's starting to hurt him.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
This is the lie that Ted's campaign is built on, and Rand touched upon it -- that he's the most conservative guy, and everyone else is a -- you know, everyone else is a RINO, the truth is, Ted, throughout this campaign, you've been willing to say or do anything in order to get votes.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Ted Cruz are not going to round up 12 million people, but we're not going to go around handing out citizenship cards either.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The only budget that Ted Cruz has ever voted for was a budget that Rand Paul sponsored that brags about cutting defense spending.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
These kinds of theatrics by Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are an entertaining sideshow, but they have nothing to do with defeating Hillary Clinton, i'm going to stay focused on uniting the Republican party so we can defeat Hillary Clinton and turn the page on eight years of liberal failure. We don't have time for these kinds of distractions.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I’m happy to have the endorsement, rubio has the potential to chart a new direction for the party, and perhaps the nation, with his message of restoring the American Dream.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
You only attack somebody if you think they are a threat.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I think it's really great that in America, you want to be commander in chief, you want to be the most important political figure in the world, you've got to start by renting a car and driving to town halls and meeting with 30 and 40 people at a time, i think that's fantastic.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I brought some of those and when I left the foam party, they were white, because the foam washed the dye out of it. It was really bad, so these are like a step up.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
What kind of one-sided deal is this? no wonder why people around the world laugh at Barack Obama.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
That is the consequences of having a dictatorship 90 miles from our shores, they continue to send thousands and thousands and thousands of migrants toward the United States.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's never a mistake to fight against Obamacare, all of us were involved in the effort to stop Obamacare.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Amnesty is the forgiveness of wrongdoing without consequences, there will be consequences for violating the law.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
These are the issues this campaign is about, so that's why I'm talking about them.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Of all the people running, no one understands it better than I do, i understand this issue, the good, the bad, the ugly.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I was here a few days ago repeatedly heckled by this group ... and I told them, 'We're going to enforce our immigration laws,' as the son and grandson of immigrants, I know for a fact that enforcing our immigration laws is not anti-immigrant, it's what sovereign countries do.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
You've seen a huge upsurge now after the deal the President made with the Castro brothers, and it's becoming a real crisis.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We're going to have to reexamine not just the Cuban Adjustment Act and make changes to it based on new realities but also the benefits people are qualifying for.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I stood on the stage and watched Marco … rather indignantly, look at Governor Bush and say, ‘someone told you that because we're running for the same office, that criticizing me will get you to that office,’ it appears that the same someone has been whispering in old Marco's ear too.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Let’s get the facts straight. First of all, I didn’t support Sonia Sotomayor.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Here's the point, and I like Ted, we're friends. But he campaigns as a consistent conservative, and basically says he's the only consistent conservative on the stage, that is not his record.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
That is not consistent conservatism, that is political calculation.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
He is eligible to be president. That is a total non-issue, it really is.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
What we saw was a leader with a record of failure in search of any meaningful positive legacy.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is particularly outrageous when individuals who claim to be fleeing repression in Cuba are welcomed and allowed to ?collect federal assistance based on their plight, only to return often to the very place they claimed to be fleeing.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
When they caught this person, they asked him, 'Why did you do this?' This person did not resist -- this person said, 'I did it because I pledged allegiance to ISIS. I am inspired by ISIS,' to his credit, the police chief of Philadelphia said this person did it because of ISIS.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
When it comes to Ted, he has changed his position on immigration all over the place, i mean, he used to be against birthright citizens -- or he used to be for birthright citizenship; now he says he's against it.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I mean, he used to be against birthright citizens -- or he used to be for birthright citizenship; now he says he's against it.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I never believed Edward Snowden was a good public servant the way that Ted Cruz once said, that he had done a public service for America. Edward Snowden is a traitor.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The police chief stands up says, 'This was the guy. We arrested him. And he said he did it in the name of ISIS.' And then, (Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney) gets up and says, 'This has nothing to do with Islam and radical Islam,' this is ridiculous. This is absurd.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
There was a terrorist attack yesterday, in the city of Philadelphia. A terrorist attack, he walks up to the car and starts firing shots. They arrest him, he tells them, he confesses, 'I did it in the name of ISIS,'.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Chris Christie has done a number of things that are very similar to the Obama agenda, and I just don't think this country can afford to elect a president that will not stand up and undo the damage Barack Obama has done to the country.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Our rights come from our creator -- they don't come from the government.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The purpose of our life is to cooperate with God's plan, to those who much as been given, much is expected. And we will be asked to account for that ... I try to allow that to influence me in everything that I do.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I have been warning throughout this campaign that North Korea is run by a lunatic who has been expanding his nuclear arsenal while President Obama has stood idly by.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is easy to talk tough on national security, you can't make the sands glow in the dark if you don't have bombs. You can't attack terrorists if you don't know where they are.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Talk is cheap to say you're going to carpet bomb ISIS, how are you going to do that if you don't have the intelligence to do that?
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We have Republican candidates who propose that rulers like Assad and Putin should be partners of the United States, and who have voted with Barack Obama and Harry Reid rather than with our men and women in uniform.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
My first day in office I will announce I am a supporter.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Chris Christie's a funny guy but he's never in New Jersey, he's gone half the time, the reason I'm not in Washington right now is really two reasons: Washington's completely broken, and that's why I'm running for president, because these votes they're taking in Washington, they don't count.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
What's happening, unfortunately, I think with some of these folks that you've mentioned, they're growing increasingly desperate and increasingly nasty and that's OK. I'm not running against them, I'm running for president.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I want to be very careful, I'm a member of the (Senate) Intelligence Committee, so obviously I want to be very careful about what I say about information of this kind.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's not my job to tell you who to vote for, but I am going to tell you who I am going to vote for. And I'm gonna tell you why. I'm going to vote for Marco Rubio, our founding fathers did not give us a commander in chief to fill out March madness basketball brackets or to sample golf courses on the eastern seaboard.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
She's in a tough spot, obviously, because she was the secretary of state for four out of seven disastrous foreign policy years, and the truth is that the threat of ISIS began to emerge in Syria while she was still the secretary of state and of course fully blossomed right after she left, they're all responsible for that's happened here.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It is the most sophisticated terror threat we have ever faced. We are now at a time when we need more tools, not less.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think it gets easier to address that issue if we deal with some of the other issues first and that's why I've favored the sequential, individual bills, i think if people have real confidence that the law is being enforced, that we're not going to have this problem again, that there's real border security, I think you buy yourself more space and more flexibility in finally dealing with those that are here illegally.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Immigration is not an issue that I read about ... it's an issue I've lived around my whole life. My family are immigrants. My wife's family are immigrants. All of my neighbors are immigrants, here's what we learned in 2013: The American people don't trust the federal government to enforce our immigration laws, and we will not be able to do anything on immigration until we first prove to the American people that illegal immigration is under control.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I'm always puzzled by his attack on this issue, ted, you support legalizing people who are in this country illegally. Ted Cruz supported a 500% increase in the number of H-1 visas, the guest workers that are allowed into this country, and Ted supports doubling the number of green cards.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Here's what we learned in 2013: The American people don't trust the federal government to enforce our immigration laws, and we will not be able to do anything on immigration until we first prove to the American people that illegal immigration is under control.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This election is about the essence of America, about all of us who feel out of place in our own country.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
A government incredibly out of touch, and millions with traditional values branded bigots and haters.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This about the greatest country in the world -- and acting like it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
He talks tough on some of these issues. For example, he was going to carpet bomb ISIS. But the only budget he's ever voted for in his time in the Senate is a budget that cut defense spending by more than Barack Obama proposes we cut it, he voted against the Defense Authorization Act every year that it came up. And I assume that if he voted against it, he would veto it as president.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
That's the bill that funds our troops. Even the Iron Dome for Israel. So I guess my point is each time he's had to choose between strong national defense and some of the isolationist tendencies in American politics, he seems to side with the isolationist, and this is an important issue to have a debate over. It's not personal.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It is the current law. I don't believe any case law is settled law, any future Supreme Court can change it. And ultimately, I will appoint Supreme Court justices that will interpret the Constitution as originally constructed.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
He voted against the Defense Authorization Act every year that it came up. And I assume that if he voted against it, he would veto it as president.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Insurance companies are willing to be a part of the exchanges, only if the federal government promised them that when they lost money they would get bailed out; bailed out with taxpayer money, we've taken that away. We should not be bailing out private insurance companies who hire great lobbyists.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Whether it's him or anybody else, everybody running for president on the Republican side wants to repeal Obamacare, i'm the only one running that's actually ever scored a victory against Obamacare.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
State of the Union, sometimes you're only on that list because the FBI wants to talk to you about someone you know, not because you're a suspect.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If the documents do not exist, they can't put together the broader picture of who these people are and who they've been dealing with, metadata alone is not going to solve all the problems, but it is an important piece of a bigger puzzle that allows you to disrupt potential terrorist plots.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Sometimes you're only on that list because the FBI wants to talk to you about someone you know, not because you're a suspect.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Moving forward, this is not going to be the last attempt to attack the homeland.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I mean they didn't even know any of the facts about this and they immediately jumped on it as an opportunity to push their gun control agenda even though no gun laws would have prevented this from occurring, we need terrorist control.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
My sense of it is that these people were really planning a broader attack but I think the evidence is going to continue to show that these were clearly people that had been radicalized, you don't build all these pipe bombs and set up booby traps unless you're planning something.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Criminals will always have access to weapons. That's why it's important that law-abiding citizens have access to protect themselves.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We don't know all of the facts yet but we certainly have learned some facts that are concerning and weighing on our minds in the aftermath of what we see happening in the world.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Ithink it’s only going to accelerate now, because once these companies can’t getbailed out, many of them are deciding they no longer want to participate in theObamaCare exchange.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's the reason why I warned about having Russia in the Middle East, i warned exactly, specifically, this could happen. That there could be an incident with Turkey, a NATO ally. That they could aggressively fly over their territory and be shot down.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If Russia believes that they can respond and retaliate against Turkey because NATO's not going to do anything about it, what they are basically doing is they are making the argument that NATO is no longer viable, that it is a feckless alliance, so it's important for us to be clear that we will respond and defend Turkey if they come under assault from the Russians.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I warned exactly, specifically, this could happen. That there could be an incident with Turkey, a NATO ally. That they could aggressively fly over their territory and be shot down.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
He wanted all the doors that closed for him to open for me, that journey from behind that bar to behind this podium, that's the essence of the American dream.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
That journey from behind that bar to behind this podium, that's the essence of the American dream.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We're all good guys, you got a few more weeks to make up your mind. We're going to try and pull you over.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I ’m from Florida. You may not know this, but there are a lot of people in Florida on Medicare and Social Security, one of them happens to be my mother. And I can say this to you right now unequivocally : I am against anything that is bad for my mother.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
One of them happens to be my mother. And I can say this to you right now unequivocally : I am against anything that is bad for my mother.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
That would be like saying we weren't at war with Nazis because we were afraid to offend some Germans who may have been members of the Nazi party, but weren't violent.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
You can have a thousand people come in and 999 of them are just poor people fleeing oppression and violence, but one of them is an ISIS fighter. ... If that's the case, you have a problem.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
He bragged about how his amendment would bring people out of the shadows, he's changed his position. He has a right to change his position.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
He's a supporter of legalizing people that are in this country illegally. If he's changed that position -- and certainly he has a right to change his position on that issue -- but he should be clear about that, on other issues regarding immigration, he's not that much further than I am. He wanted to double the number of green cards. He wanted a 500% increase in the number of H1B visas. So everybody running for president on the Republican side in one way or shape supports some form or fashion the legalization of people that are in this country illegally.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I'm puzzled and quite frankly surprised by Ted's attacks since Ted's position on immigration is not much different than mine.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Whether it’s Russians, whether it’s Assad, whether it was Gaddafi before, that’s what exists 90 miles from our shores. We should not be strengthening that government that controls the entire economy. We should not be strengthening them by providing sources of revenue to fund their repression.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
You're disgusting, I mean this is a disgusting video, what you did with children and to the parents of those children. You know, shame on them. I mean what kind of parent allows their kids to go be exposed to the world in a YouTube video using those words?
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It will be soon -- these are old documents and they take time to assemble, i have no problem releasing it. We have nothing to withhold here.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I would be targeting their safe havens everywhere including in Libya, if we don't wipe out that operational status that they now have in Libya they're going to use it to ramp up more operations in Sinai, more in Egypt and eventually it will cross over the Mediterranean into Europe itself.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It will have to end. It can't be the permanent policy of the United States, i've said that consistently. I don't think we should be signing new people up to it. If you haven't applied by now, it's been three years, almost four, and I don't think, when it comes time to extend it, we should extend it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I only have one debt in the world, which is my mortgage on the home that me and my family live in in Miami.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What I appreciate about Bernie is he's not trying to shirk from it, it's what he believes in. He's honest about it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I don't think it works for America, my argument is, you want to live in a country like that -- there's like dozens of countries around the world that are socialist -- move there. We should continue to be America.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I don't personally have a problem with Bernie because he's being honest about what he believes in. I'd love to have that debate.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I was secured under my personal credit and it was in conjunction with the Republican Party, and every month, I would go through the bills and if there was something on there, I'd pay it to American Express, and if it was the party's, the party paid for it, and the media convoluted all of this and it creates these stories.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The Democrats have the ultimate super PAC ... called the mainstream media for every single day.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Only America can convene Sunni forces from what I believe needs to be a combined Sunni force of Egyptians, Saudis, Jordanians, Sunnis in Iraq, Sunnis in Syria to confront a radical Sunni movement and defeat them militarily. They will need our help in convening it, but it doesn't involve a full-scale U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I don't believe that the way I'm going to win is by going after him or anybody else.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think this is what's wrong with Washington -- what I call the unholy alliance between the Right and the Left, neither of which seem to be too concerned with the deficit.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The only reason you are doing it now is because we're running for the same position and someone has convinced you that attacking me is going to help you.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Someone has convinced you that attacking me is going to help you, it’s not.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The Democrats have the greatest super PAC -- it's called the mainstream media.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The only reason why you're doing it now is because we're running for the same position, and someone has convinced you that attacking me is going to help you, i'm not running against Governor Bush, I'm not running against anyone on this stage. I'm running for president.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The Democrats have the ultimate super PACs: they're called the mainstream media.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This is another example of the double standard that exists in this country between the mainstream media and the conservative movement.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I don't think I've been invited, we'll see if that makes sense. I'm not going to cancel campaign events to do it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I just want to make sure it's the right person, somebody said (television host) Mario Lopez the other day. Maybe they'll bring him on as a guest or something.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
She lied about House Benghazi, i think House Benghazi's just a little bit more insight into her unwillingness oftentimes to speak truth, in this case for political reasons.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Donald Trump don't want kids at a young age exposed to lyrics that somehow glamorize a lifestyle that's art, it's not reality, so one of the issues with the'90s hip hop music is that it had lyrics that were offensive. What it actually was were people who were living in those circumstances expressing what their life was like. In the West Coast case, for example, in South Central L.A. And so it gave insight into the lives that they were living.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
To this point in the campaign, he has not proven an understanding of these issues or the preparation necessary to be the commander-in-chief of the most powerful military force in the world.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Well, she'll be the Democratic nominee, someone who comes from a political dynasty and that, in and of itself, is going to bring fundraising capabilities and so forth.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Voting is not the only part of the Senate job, i mean, the most important thing a senator does is constituent service. We're still involved in looking out for Florida's issues.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I was just there this Tuesday, i got fully briefed and caught up on everything that's happening in the world. I'm fully aware.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If you start paying attention to these polls in October, I mean, you'll go crazy. I've been up, I've been down, it's a very unusual year, and I think part of it is that people are really angry about the direction of our country.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I would say that ultimately the next president of the United States, on their first day in office, must understand the threats that face this country and must have shown good judgment about what to do about those issues.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We did n’t mislead, the numbers are there and show what we’ve raised.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
As Palestinian terrorists continue to murder and maim Israelis, the Obama administration is spreading malicious falsehoods about the attacks.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
They're handing out mojitos in the middle of my speech, I love it, i promise that has never happened before.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I can tell you that I always find it interesting that the reflexive reaction of the left is to say we need more gun laws, criminals don't follow gun laws. Only law-abiding people follow gun laws. And there is just no evidence that these gun laws would prevent these shootings.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The President has fallen into that. He's in fact strengthened Putin's hands.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If left with a choice between Russia and nothing, they're going to choose Russia.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I'm not here to bash anyone --- but the time has come to turn the page. The time has come to turn the page and allow a new generation of leadership in this country.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Debbie Wasserman Schultz should be more concerned that she decided to side with her president, that she decided to side with her party and put Israel in danger.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I was outraged because this is a private citizen and individual who participates in the political process, (and) anyone who knows him for two seconds realizes he's not a Nazi sympathizer.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We cannot deal with all three of these problems in one massive piece of legislation, i learned that. We tried it that way.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I personally know, first of all, that there are Americans that are Muslims and that are also very patriotic and they love the United States of America and they don't want to see any Sharia law and they don't want to see anything like that happen in this country, i don't believe anyone should be disqualified from the presidency because of their denomination or because of their faith. I believe in that strongly.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I don't believe anyone should be disqualified from the presidency because of their denomination or because of their faith. I believe in that strongly.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
But I do believe there are hundreds of thousands -- if not millions -- of people in this country who are Muslim but love United States of America... they aren't political about their religious views with regards to that the way you would see in some other countries around the world.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I know many people are disappointed with Scott's announcement and I respect what a difficult decision it must have been. He remains one of the best governors in the country.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Every time that we discuss these sorts of things, we're not talking about the family who's out there trying to make it -- they don't know if they're going to make it to Friday before a check bounces because they don't have enough money in their checking account.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This is -- of course -- he's born in the United States. He's a Christian. He's the president of the United States for the next year and a half, and we're going to move on.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Despite the fact that we have the most generous country in the history of the world in allowing people to come here legally, we have people still coming illegally.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I want to tell you a story about someone that didn't speak English that well. It was my grandfather, my grandfather instilled in me the belief that I was blessed to live in the one society in all of human history where even I, the son of a bartender and a maid, could aspire to have anything, and be anything that I was willing to work hard to achieve. But he taught me that in Spanish, because it was the language he was most comfortable in.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Those are very important years, fourth grade through high school -- they were the years that formed so much of what today I believe and know to be true about the world and about our nation.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We are trying to build a campaign here, we want to be in first place in February, not in August or September. We have a campaign that is designed to achieve that goal.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
When I entered that race, the only people who thought I could win all lived in my home. Four of them were under the age of 10.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If you don't know the answer to these questions, then you are not going to be able to serve as commander and chief, this should be part of the reason why you are running because you understand the threats that the world is facing, you have deep understanding and you understand what to do about it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
No, I don't, national Security is the most important obligation of the federal government. If you are going to be a presidential candidate, you need to take this seriously. And I think that is important.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It is important to have a detailed understanding of the threats we face as a country, you are commander in chief on day number one and you may have to make national security decisions right away. And it takes time and dedication and a natural curiosity and interest in these issues.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
That is his opinion, i am here in Puerto Rico, I am going to get asked question by Spanish media, I am going to answer in Spanish. I don't want some translator to translate what I said.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
President Obama has hoped that being more open to China would make them a more responsible nation. It has not worked. We can no longer succumb to the illusion that more dialogue with China's current rulers will narrow the gap in values and interests that separates us, our nominee must have a plan to correct U.S.-China relations.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I would like to focus my remarks today on these two dangerous developments with Iran and Cuba, as I believe they represent the convergence of nearly every flawed strategic, moral, and economic notion that has driven President Obama's foreign policy, and as such are emblematic of so many of the crises he has worsened around the world.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I will undertake a three-part plan to roll back President Obama's deal with Iran and repair the damage done to America's standing in the Middle East.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I will give the Castros a choice: either continue repressing your people and lose the diplomatic relations and benefits provided by President Obama, or carry out meaningful political and human rights reforms and receive increased U.S. trade, investment, and support.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What other people are doing doesn't necessarily impact our strategy.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You can do that on day one in the first hour of your presidency, in the first week of your presidency, the centrifuges that [Iran has] now are quite frankly ancient.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Absolutely, and I said so today at the [Senate Foreign Relations Committee] hearing.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The centrifuges that [Iran has] now are quite frankly ancient.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
This is not just an insult to John McCain, who clearly is a war hero and a great man.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Our higher education system is controlled by what amounts to a cartel of existing colleges and universities, which use their power over the accreditation process to block innovative, low-cost competitors from entering the market.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Our next President needs to be someone who brings Americans together -- not someone who continues to divide, our broken immigration system is something that needs to be solved, and comments like this move us further from -- not closer to -- a solution. We need leaders who offer serious solutions to secure our border and fix our broken immigration system.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It is important for the United States to continue being a beacon of freedom for the Cuban people, i intend to work with my colleagues to block the administration’s efforts to pursue diplomatic relations with Cuba and name an ambassador to Havana until substantive progress is made on these important issues.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It remains unclear what, if anything, has been achieved … in terms of securing the return of U.S. fugitives being harbored in Cuba, settling outstanding legal claims to U.S. citizens for properties confiscated by the regime, and in obtaining the unequivocal right of our diplomats to travel freely throughout Cuba and meet with any dissidents, and most importantly, securing greater political freedoms for the Cuban people. I intend to oppose theconfirmationof an Ambassador to Cuba until these issues are addressed.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
While I disagree with this decision, we live in a republic and must abide by the law, as we look ahead, it must be a priority of the next president to nominate judges and justices committed to applying the Constitution as written and originally understood.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
As we look ahead, it must be a priority of the next president to nominate judges and justices committed to applying the Constitution as written and originally understood.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
People buy into my agenda, I don't buy into theirs, my stands are not influenced by my contributors, I hope my stands influences my contributors.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
When I run for office, I tell people what I stand for, and when you hear what I stand for, if you want to support me and donate to our campaign -- assuming you're not a really, really bad person or something like that -- we accept that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Apparently your family recently purchased a luxury speedboat. Now, I've seen a photo of this boat, i'm from Minnesota, you guys are from New Hampshire, looked a little bit like a fishing boat to me. The veterans really want to know, why didn't you buy a yacht large enough to land a Black Hawk on it?
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Well the thing about the boat is, too, it is a luxury speedboat, but it is cleverly disguised as a fishing boat, but the best answer I got is someone who emailed me or texted me and said, 'Any boat where you have to go to the bathroom off the side of the boat is not a luxury speedboat.'.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I appreciate and respect (Haley's) statement that 'This is South Carolina's statehouse, it is South Carolina's historic moment, and this will be South Carolina's decision,' i have no doubt that given how the people of South Carolina have dealt with this tragedy so far, they will continue to inspire the nation with their courage, compassion and unity.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
In politics, people throw around the word 'friend' so much it often has little real meaning. This is not one of those times, when I call Jeb Bush my friend, I mean he is someone I like, care for and respect. He and I have worked closely together for many years, on issues big and small. He is a passionate advocate for what he believes, and I welcome him to the race.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
When I call Jeb Bush my friend, I mean he is someone I like, care for and respect. He and I have worked closely together for many years, on issues big and small. He is a passionate advocate for what he believes, and I welcome him to the race.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We simply cannot afford to elect as our next president one of the leading agents of this administration’s foreign policy – a leader from yesterday whose tenure as secretary of state was ineffective at best and dangerously negligent at worst.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We have great affection for Nevada, we look forward to coming back many times.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
First of all, the world is better off because Saddam Hussein is no longer in charge in Iraq.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The solution is not to get rid of a program at a time when we know that the risk of homegrown violent extremism is the highest it's ever been.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Governors can certainly read about foreign policy, and take briefings and meet with experts, but there is no way they'll be ready on Day One to manage U.S. foreign policy.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The argument the White House uses is if you're not in favor of this deal, you are in favor of war, i would argue that a bad deal almost guarantees war, because Israel is not going to abide by any deal that they believe puts them and their existence in danger.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The criticism of that is that there are a bunch of countries in the Middle East that don't recognize Israel's right to exist, which is true, but none of them are trying to build a nuclear weapon. And none of them have billions of dollars of sanctions, and if we lift those sanctions, we are handing over billions of dollars to the Iranian regime.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I've had leaders of the Northern Triangle in Central America -- Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador -- tell me that DACA was used by trafficking groups in the Northern Triangle to recruit people to send their children here illegally.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
In exchange for all of that, what you would get is the equivalent of a non-immigrant, non-permanent work visa to be in the US.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If there’s somebody that I love that’s in my life, I don’t necessarily have to agree with their decisions or the decisions they’ve made to continue to love them and participate in important events.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I don't think the Wall Street Journal or any conservatives have any quarrel with what we've done on the pro-tax is-on the pro-growth side of this debate.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Cuba is a brutal, tyrannical dictatorship 90 miles from the shore of our country.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If you’ve decided that you want to serve this country as its president, that’s what you should be running for. And I find Marco Rubio in a situation where my Senate Finance seat comes up for re-election at the exact same time as the presidency.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I think that Jeb Bush continues to be a model for people in terms of how you approach public policy. ... But we've reached a moment now, not just in my career but in the history of our country, where I believe that it needs a Republican Party that is new and vibrant, that understands the future, has an agenda for that future, and I feel uniquely qualified to offer that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The constitutional right to bear arms is constantly in jeopardy.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The most important obligation of the federal government is our national security, and I think that is something that is very difficult to acquire experience or in-depth knowledge (of) when you are governor. You just don't deal with those issues, you can obviously be briefed by experts, you can take some trips abroad, but I think this election has the potential to really be geared towards national security issues. I feel very comfortable in my knowledge and my experience on those issues.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Is it worse than doing what we've done for almost two decades, with Iran moving forward with its nuclear program and without robust inspections? I think the answer will be clear.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Nobody is saying that it should be legal to deny someone service at a restaurant or at a hotel because of their sexual orientation. I think that's a consensus view in America, the flip side is, should a photographer be punished for refusing to do a wedding that their faith teaches them is not one that is valid in the eyes of God?
Found on CNN 9 years ago
That's not the same thing, because here you're talking about the definition of an institution, not the value of a single human being. That's the difference between the civil rights movement and the marriage equality movement.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
For years, the District of Columbia has infringed on its residents’ Second Amendment rights and rendered them vulnerable to criminals who could care less what the gun laws are, this legislation will finally allow D.C.’s law-abiding residents and visitors access to firearms for sporting or lawful defense of themselves and their homes, businesses and families.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's one of the things people will look to to see if you're changing your positions when you run for office, i'm proud of my record both here and my time in the state legislature, and I don't anticipate a potential candidacy for anything impacting how I would vote on one issue or another.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I hope these ideas are embraced by everybody running for president, because I think our party needs to be the pro-family, pro-growth party.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Our generation is going to have to accept that our Medicare and Social Security is going to be different from our parents.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I love the people of Venezuela. I want that country to have freedom. I want it to have human rights and to be banned by a dictator like Nicolas Maduro is, to me, a badge of honor.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Because of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy, our allies no longer trust us and our enemies no longer fear us.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Bureaucrats at the VA are not commanding officers. They should never have the authority to order around our returning heroes, as soon as the VA is forced to compete with the private sector providers, it will increase the efficiency, the service and its innovation.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Paying lip service to veterans is always in vogue, but the true measure of public service ... is the willingness to endorse whole reforms.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We only declare war on nation-states, iSIS wants to be considered a state but it is not a state and I refuse to elevate it to that standing.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If enough people are not vaccinated you put at risk infants that are three months of age or younger that have not been vaccinated, and you put at risk immune-suppressed children that are not able to get those vaccinations, so absolutely, all children in America [should be vaccinated].
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Jeb Bush is going to be a very credible candidate. I think he's going to raise a lot of money, he's got an extraordinary network of donor around the country and I know he'll be a strong candidate if he runs.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I'm all for reforming our higher education system, in the 21st century, to have the skills you need for a middle-class job, you need higher education of some form or fashion. It may not be a four-year degree. The problem is he just wants to pour that additional money into the broken, existing system.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
This is a windfall for the Castro regime that will be used to fund its repression against Cubans, as well as its activities against U.S. national interests in Latin America and beyond.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Eric Holder was in Paris, and maybe John Kerry should have gone, or somebody else, there's a plethora of people they could have sent. I think in hindsight I hope that they would have done it differently.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It was n’t State Department officials, State Department was n’t [ Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs ] Roberta Jacobson or John Kerry, it was National Security Council officials, you sent unqualified people to negotiate with hardened, brutal spies and representatives of tyrants... It was negotiated at a secretive level involving agencies under the complete control of the White House, as a political move …. And that mismatch is apparent in this sort of deal that was made.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Almost three weeks after your Cuba announcement, there is absolutely no reason why any of these individuals should be in prison or the targets of repression – or for their identities, conditions and whereabouts to remain such closely held secrets.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Like many people who have been opining, (Paul) has no idea what he's talking about.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
I chose not to discuss it at the time because I did not want to imperil the safety and well-being of Mr. Gross, who, as I understood it, was either en route or potentially en route within a few hours.
Found on FOX News 10 years ago
It's absurd and it's part of a long record of coddling dictators and tyrants.
Found on FOX News 10 years ago
The president’s decision to reward the Castro regime and begin the path toward the normalization of relations with Cuba is inexplicable.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
It is a lifeline for the Castro regime that will allow them to become more profitable ... and allow them to become a more permanent fixture, the embargo is leverage, these sanctions are leverage.
Found on CNN 10 years ago
This president has proven today that his foreign policy is more than just naive, it is willfully ignorant of the way the world truly works.
Found on CNN 10 years ago
Appeasing the Castro brothers will only cause other tyrants from Caracas to Tehran to Pyongyang to see that they can take advantage of President Obama's naiveté during his final two years in office. As a result, America will be less safe as a result of the President's change in policy.
Found on CNN 10 years ago
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