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We know what we know. But there is a number that's greater than that that we don't know.

Michael Steinbach

Found on CNN
10 years ago

Once you get to Europe, you can easily get down to Turkey and into Syria.

Michael Steinbach

Found on CNN
10 years ago

There are individuals out there who are inspired by the message of terrorist groups and they encourage family members, including their children, to follow that path.

Michael Steinbach

Found on CNN
10 years ago

This is a crime, and its prevalence suggests we're not doing everything that we can, that we need to do, to root out that crime.

Ashton Carter

Found on CNN
10 years ago

I pledge to make needed change in the Pentagon but also to seek support from Congress, because I know that in the end, Congress holds the power of the purse, i look forward to a partnership with this committee, and what can be a period of historic advance.

Ashton Carter

Found on CNN
10 years ago

We need to support Ukraine in defending themselves.

Ashton Carter

Found on CNN
10 years ago

You know, if you were to talk to him, I'm sure he would tell you that vaccines are very, very important and have made a tremendous difference in our society, he's simply saying we don't want to be forced.

Republican Ben Carson

Found on CNN
10 years ago

I did not say vaccines caused disorders, just that they were temporally related -- I did not allege causation. I support vaccines, I receive them myself and I had all of my children vaccinated, in fact today, I received the booster shot for the vaccines I got when I went to Guatemala last year.

Rand Paul

Found on CNN
10 years ago

The statement of [Sen. Rand] Paul would create anxiety because he's a doctor, he's a respected senator and there is no evidence that I'm aware of that a vaccine causes mental retardation, if he has that evidence he should come forward and let the scientific community do something about it. You cannot scare people by anecdote.

Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
10 years ago

As to freedom, it is cherished, it is hard to come by, it is hard to hang on to. But freedom without responsibility is chaos, so to those who push the idea that freedom would allow an individual to do anything, anywhere, at any time, I reject, your freedom ends where my ability to raise my family safely begins. So I would urge every American to vaccinate their children and I would reject any effort to stop vaccinations until someone can show me a scientific reason to do so.

Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
10 years ago

For a federal mandate to come about for measles or any other particular illness or disease you'd have to convince me it was necessary, but the question is, is there scientific evidence to justify a politician suggesting that vaccinations programs we have today are unsound? My answer is no.

Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
10 years ago

These are the most unsettled times I can remember since I have been in government. The last thing we need are politicians creating anxiety for no good reason.

Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
10 years ago

Rand Paul is a nice man. He is a very committed libertarian. I think he is looking at this issue through a libertarian's eyes, not a physician's eyes.

Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
10 years ago

Your freedom ends where my ability to raise my family safely begins. So I would urge every American to vaccinate their children and I would reject any effort to stop vaccinations until someone can show me a scientific reason to do so.

Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
10 years ago

He also believes many vaccines should be voluntary and like most medical decisions, between the doctor and the patient, not the government.

Sergio Gor

Found on CNN
10 years ago

I've pulled up short of a federal mandate ... but I am really distressed by some of these comments of wannabe presidential candidates..., think of an analogy: What if I said 'It's my car, I don't want any brakes...and it just endangered my life? [But] you're endangering the lives of other drivers. That's what this is about.

Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin

Found on CNN
10 years ago

Parents ought to make sure their children are vaccinated.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
10 years ago

The recovery has been everywhere but in American paychecks. The American Dream has become a mirage for far too many. So the central question we face here in Detroit and across America is this : Can we restore The American Dream -- that moral promise -- that each generation can do better ? we believe that every American and in every community has a right to pursue happiness. They have a right to rise.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
10 years ago

Immigration's not a problem, while the political fights are going on we're missing this opportunity.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
10 years ago

The American experience works when people embrace a set of shared values, you come, you work hard, you embrace these values and you're as American as anybody that came on the Mayflower.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
10 years ago

The troubles of Detroit are echoes of the troubles facing Washington, D.C..

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
10 years ago

Let's embrace reform everywhere, especially in our government. Let's start with the simple principle of who holds the power. I say give Washington less and give states and local governments more.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
10 years ago

And you know what will happen ? We'll create a whole lot of new conservatives.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
10 years ago

Somehow, in the 21st century, we started naming ships with strange acronyms ... instead of from our naval traditions ... so we are going to change the hull designation of the ?#?LCS?? class ships to FF (frigate) ... appropriate and traditional name.

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus

Found on CNN
10 years ago

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