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We’re just going to continue to go through the process.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Hopefully there's time to still prevent a Trump nomination, which I think would fracture the party and be damaging to the conservative movement.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I think that all the gates of civility have been blown apart. We've now reached a point where everyone on both sides everyone is just saying or doing whatever they want, and you know, you can't just say or do whatever you want, this is not about political correctness. This is about rules of civility and the way a society talks to each other.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
It's getting harder every day to justify that statement to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, to my children, to my family, and to the people that support me, this country deserves better. At some point, people have to wake up here. This is really going to do damage to America.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
At the end of the day, how do you tell your people that are for you to go vote for somebody else? i'm not into a stop-Trump as much as I am be-for-Kasich movement.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I still, at this moment, continue to intend to support the Republican nominee, but (it's) getting harder every day.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I think we also have to look at the rhetoric coming from the front-runner in the presidential campaign, someone who's basically encouraged people in the audience to rough up anyone who stands up and says something he doesn't like.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Someone who's basically encouraged people in the audience to rough up anyone who stands up and says something he doesn't like.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
There's a broader issue in our political culture in this country. And this is what happens when a leading presidential candidate goes around feeding into a narrative of anger and bitterness and frustration.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
We have a debate like we did two weeks ago where it gets pretty heated and people say, 'We don't like it. It's too personal. They're not talking a bout policy,'.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
When it comes to foreign policy in particular, I think last night you did see some sharp distinctions and I thought I was able to make them without calling anybody a name or going in that direction.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
We don't know that. I don't know how he bases that on.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
We shouldn't be politically correct about that -- to say there is a problem with radical Islam, radical Islamic jihadists. That is a real threat to Islam and a real threat to America. But we're going to need to work with Muslims to defeat radicalization.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I don't want us to have a president that we constantly have to be explaining to our kids, 'Look, I know that's what the president did, but you shouldn't do that.' I don't want that, donald Trump -- he might have grown up the way he did, with a lot of money and going to boarding school. I can tell you this: Where I grew up, if someone keeps punching people in the face, eventually someone's going to have to stand up and punch them back.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
We will beat Donald Trump there the way we beat Charlie Crist, i have experience beating people who say they aren't who they truly are.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Donald Trump -- he might have grown up the way he did, with a lot of money and going to boarding school. I can tell you this: Where I grew up, if someone keeps punching people in the face, eventually someone's going to have to stand up and punch them back.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I didn't get into this to beat up on other candidates, I really didn't.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
And, he referred to my hands -- 'if they're small, something else must be small.' I guarantee you there's no problem. I guarantee. the majority of the questions had something to do with he said or she said.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I give the governor credit, he took responsibility for what happened and he’s talked about being held responsible for it.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
This should not be a partisan issue, the way the Democrats have tried to turn this into a partisan issue – that somehow Republicans woke up in the morning and decided oh, it’s a good time to poison some kids with lead. It’s absurd. It’s outrageous.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
This is the fight for the heart and soul of the Republican Party, i will go through all 50 states before we stop fighting to save the Republican Party from someone like that.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I intend to be in this race as long as it takes to prevent someone like Donald Trump who is not a conservative and is a con man from taking over the conservative movement and the party of Reagan, i do not believe Donald Trump can get 1,237 delegates, which is what you need to become the nominee. And I will never give up the fight.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
There is no doubt the Rubio family has come a long way from the days when their largest monthly expense was a check to Sallie Mae and checks were sent in the mail to pay bills with the hope the payment did not arrive before the next paycheck was deposited into their account.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I'm sure people are offended. We hope people are offended by that. That's not what the United States is about.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
As a Roman Catholic, he's the head of the Church, he's the successor of Peter -- is what I believe -- and I have tremendous respect and admiration for him, i haven't seen his statement, but I'm an elected official in the United States of America in the federal government, and our number one obligation is to keep people safe and our immigration system is a part of that.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I did not do well on Saturday night, and that will never happen again.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I'm as conservative as anyone running for president and I believe I can grow the conservative movement, i can take the conservative movement to people who are living today the way I grew up.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Tim is a leader not just in South Carolina but around the country. He embodies the American Dream. He embodies so much of what our party needs to be about, he doesn't come from a privileged background and neither do I and we are both conservatives because we know that conservatism is the right way forward -- especially for people who are trying to make it.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I didn't have a lot of voters mention that to me, but I certainly think that could have been a factor.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I give us the best chance to take our message to people that haven't voted for us in the past -- and convince them that conservatism is better for them and better for America, so I think more and more people began to realize that as we got closer to voting day.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
For months they told us we had no chance. … They told me I needed to wait my turn, but tonight … here in Iowa, the people in this great state sent a very clear message. After seven years of Barack Obama, we are not waiting any longer to take our country back.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Hillary Clinton put some of the highest, most sensitive intelligence information on her private server because maybe she thinks she's above the law.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I will never embarrass you, i will never do anything that makes you cringe and say ... 'I can't believe that's who we picked.'.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Anger will motivate us. Frustration should cause you to go to the caucus on Monday, anger alone will not be enough, and that's why you must make the right choice.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I don't think anyone winning Iowa makes them unstoppable.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I hate to interrupt this episode of court TV.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It's important and so good that the Republican Party has candidates running for president like John Kasich, who's father was a mailman, and my father, who was a bartender, and others who worked for a living and struggled to provide for their families, it's one thing to read about these things; it's another thing to live them.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
This country cannot afford a president that's not going to reverse the direction Barack Obama's taken our country, we can't have another president that supports Common Core or gun control or expanding Obamacare.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
There are states -- for example like Nevada -- that are dominated by the federal government in terms of land holding, and we should fix it, but no one should be doing it in a way that's outside the law, we are a nation laws, we should follow those laws and they should be respected.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
You cannot be lawless. We live in a republic. There are ways to change the laws of this country and the policies. If we get frustrated with it, that's why we have elections. That's why we have people we can hold accountable.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
All these executive orders he's gon na come out with tomorrow that are going to undermine our Second Amendment rights -- on my first day in office, they're gone.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
I thought he was one of the most forceful voices on any of the debate stages about rebuilding our military.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Where is the evidence that we have widespread discrimination against Muslims?
Found on CNN 7 years ago
The notion that a radical jihadist who is on a no-fly list is going to walk into a local gun shop to purchase a gun is absurd.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
She spent over a week telling the families of those victims and the American people that it was because of a video, and yet the mainstream media is going around saying it was the greatest week in Hillary Clinton's campaign. It was the week she got exposed as a liar.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
He would have survived. He would have remained in power. And it would have strengthened his hand and allowed him to send a message to the world that he had taken on the United States and still held on. In fact, it may have even rallied some in the Arab world to his side as a result of such a strike, no one's calling on air strikes on Assad now.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
As far as national security, let me just say, I obviously am not happy about the events that happened last week in Paris, but I think it's a positive development that it suddenly has forced Americans to confront more carefully the issue of national security, because it is the most important thing a president will do and it's the most important function of the federal government.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
This is a civilizational struggle between the values of freedom and liberty, and radical Islamic terror. What happened in Paris could happen here, there is no middle ground. These aren't disgruntled or disempowered people. These are radical terrorists who want to kill us, because we let women drive, because we let girls go to school.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
My argument is that we can't allow anyone in this country that we can't vet. And I believe that the vast majority of refugees that are trying to come here are people that we will not able to vet.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
And I hope that we focus on that more, not just for political advantage, but because the world has become a very dangerous place.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
We won't be able to take more refugees, it's not that we don't want to, it's that we can't. Because there's no way to background check someone that's coming from Syria. Who do you call and do a background check on them?
Found on CNN 7 years ago
We cannot let those who seek to disrupt our way of life succeed, we must increase our efforts at home and abroad to improve our defenses, destroy terrorist networks and deprive them of the space from which to operate.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
The vast majority of work that happens in any Senate office is direct constituent services, and we're going to continue to provide that service. It's the thing I'm most of, we're most proud about.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
In the broader debate over who do voters trust to do the job, Marco's been in the Senate for six years and he hasn't done anything, he didn't show up to votes not just since he started to run for president, but long before. As soon as he got there, he had the worst voter record in the Senate.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
As far as votes, I don't like missing votes, I hate it.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Here's what I would hate more, and that is to wake up on the first Wednesday of November in 2016 to the news that Hillary Clinton has been elected president of the United States.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
People talk about this, i don't know where she's getting her information, but she's out of touch ... not designed to deal with 21st century issues that face vets.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
The overwhelming and vast majority of law enforcement officers in this country are just trying to do their jobs, it is troubling that there are groups and rhetoric out there now that is encouraging people to demonize law enforcement, to target law enforcement or in some cases, quite frankly, to misrepresent what law enforcement is trying to do.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
It's unfortunate that the White House does not acknowledge that enough.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
If you watched that debate last night, it looked like something from the early '80s. It was basically a liberal versus liberal debate about who was going to give away the most free stuff: Free college education. Free college education for people illegally in this country. Free health care. Free everything.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Their answer to every problem in America is a government program and a tax increase. That's all they prescribe time and time again. And this is stuff from the '80s, the mid-'80s.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
He's been President now for seven years, he has seven years of presidential experience, and I still disagree with the decisions he's making, if he'd been in the Senate 50 years, I think he still would have met some of the failures he's meeting because his ideas don't work.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
If there is a vote where my vote is going to make a difference or an issue of major national significance and importance, we'd do everything possible to be there, but I am going to miss votes, I'm running for president. ... When I miss a vote, it's not because I'm out playing golf. We're out campaigning for the future of America where I believe I can make more of a difference as president than I could as a senator.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Being a senator is more than just casting a vote.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
That's absurd, vladimir Putin is deliberately targeting all the non-ISIS rebels. The more moderate they are, the more he's going to target them.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
He's trying to thin out the opposition so that the only opposition left in Syria to Assad is ISIS, and at that point he'll be able to force world to support Assad, i don't understand why the White House doesn't see it and why the President and his administration don't understand that.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Look, I'm just getting ready to go and answer the questions they ask us, it's what we do every day on the campaign. The only difference is it's going to be in front of millions of people all at once.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
When I'm President of the United States, we will reimpose those sanctions on day one, and then I will go to Congress and ask them to even increase those sanctions more, and I will back that up with a credible threat of military force, a simple message to the Ayatollah: If you try to build a weapon, we will destroy your program.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Well, these are 13 million people -- those are human beings, and ultimately, they're people. They're not just statistics.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'm open to doing things that prevent people from coming to the U.S. to take advantage of 14th Amendment, but I'm not in favor of repealing it.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
A rape is an act of violence. It's a horrifying thing that happens. And fortunately, the number of abortions in this country that are due to rape are very small, less than 1% of the cases in the world. But they happen. And they're horrifying. And they're tragic. And I recognize that, i also recognize that because of the existence of over-the-counter morning after, not to mention medical treatment that's now available immediately after the assault, that should be widely available to victims, we can bring that number down to zero.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't want to ban any contraceptive efforts, obviously, my faith has a teaching that governs me in my personal life on these issues. But I think our laws on those issues are different.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't say it's easy. Listen, you're 15 years old and you become pregnant and you're scared and you have your whole life ahead of you and you're facing this, that is a hard situation. I tell people all the time, 'Don't pretend this is easy.' This is a difficult question, but when asked to make a decision between two very hard circumstances.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I also recognize that because of the existence of over-the-counter morning after, not to mention medical treatment that's now available immediately after the assault, that should be widely available to victims, we can bring that number down to zero.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
That being said, I personally and deeply believe that all human life is worthy of the protection of our laws. I do. And I believe that irrespective of the conditions by which that life was conceived or anything else.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
But when asked to make a decision between two very hard circumstances.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
This is a deal whose survival is not guaranteed beyond the term of the current president, and, by the way, I personally hope that the next person is someone that will remove the national security waiver and re-impose the congressional sanctions that were passed by Congress because this deal is fundamentally and irreparably flawed.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We will not use the national security waiver to hold back U.S. sanctions against Iran -- especially not as a result of this flawed deal that he is pursuing.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I spoke out against what Donald Trump said, but we have to remember, this is a man who spent his whole life saying outrageous things.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's not just absurd, it's offensive. It's ridiculous. And I do think it's a disqualifier as commander-in-chief.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I can tell you what I believe, particularly about Mexican-Americans: they are a community that has contributed greatly to this country, they work extremely hard, they've been very productive citizens of our country, and I think that's true of many ethnic groups in this country.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I disagree with the Court's ruling and believe they have once again erred in trying to correct the mistakes made by President President Barack Obama and Congress in forcing Obamacare on the American people, i remain committed to repealing this bad law and replacing it with my consumer-centered plan that puts patients and families back in control of their health care decisions.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
That was not the same question, the question was whether it was a mistake, and my answer was, 'It's not a mistake.' I still say it's not a mistake because the President was presented with intelligence that said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't think George Bush would have moved forward on the invasion and he certainly wouldn't have congressional authority, but the presidents don't have the benefit of hindsight. You have to make difficult decisions based on the information that's before you at that moment.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
But the presidents don't have the benefit of hindsight. You have to make difficult decisions based on the information that's before you at that moment.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I mean, come on, what are you seeing that I'm not seeing?
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's tax day and while many Americans are filing their taxes with a groan, taxpayers in the Badger State have reason to cheer. In Wisconsin, we have enacted more than $2 billion in tax cuts, giving our citizens much-needed relief, call us crazy Midwesterners but we think you know how to spend your money better than the government.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Just yesterday, a leader from yesterday began a campaign for president by promising to take us back to yesterday, yesterday is over -- and we're never going back.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
This election is a generational choice about what kind of country we will be.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
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 8 years ago
I will announce on April 13th what I’m going to do next in terms of running for president or the U.S. Senate.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This President is making a historic mistake, allies have differences, but allies like Israel, when you have a difference with them and it is public, it emboldens their enemies to launch more rockets out of southern Lebanon and Gaza, to launch more terrorist attacks, to go to international forums and de-legitimize Israel's right to exist. And this is what they're doing.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I have zero doubt that between now and the next president, Iran will violate some condition of this deal, the challenge will be whether the European community and our allies around the world are willing to look the other way and ignore them or are willing to re-impose sanctions.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The United States, although it's less than ideal, could unilaterally re-impose more crushing and additional sanctions.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
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