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It’s not personal in terms of candidates; I could care less what other candidates say.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I think the real reason he’s ahead [in Wis. polls] is because, like I said, voters are informed.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I’m gonna support the Republican running against Hillary Clinton because Hillary Clinton would be an awful, awful president for the United States.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
For me, we’ll see what the future holds, i can run for re-election [as governor] in 2018. I‘d love to join a Republican president, not in his Cabinet, but as a leader of Republican governors across the country.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It’s time we elected a strong new leader. I’ve chosen to endorse Ted Cruz.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I've actually never talked about it or I haven't read about that. I've never asked him that, you've asked me to make statements about people that I haven't had a conversation with about that. How (could) I say if I know either of you are a Christian?
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We don't know who you are or where you're going, we need someone who can actually get the job done.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Mr. Trump, we don't need an apprentice in the White House, we have one right now.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
In our society we need leaders, not just in elected office, we need clergy and business and other leaders in our community to say enough is enough.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
In Harris County there was a deputy sheriff who was shot 15 times -- 15 times, while he was filling up his gas tank. Why? Because the sheriff there said they believe that the suspect that went after him did so just because he was in uniform, in our society we need leaders, not just in elected office, we need clergy and business and other leaders in our community to say enough is enough.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
He's praised them, but he's not speaking out about the fact that this rhetoric out there, and when you've got people say, we have people say 'pigs in a blanket' at a rally, 'fry 'em up like bacon,'.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We should make sure we're actually in the states, the early states, so they can compare us to the other candidates.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
They went after me in a recall election and we won. And they made me the number one target in America.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We're convinced in the state where caucuses are the name of the game ... we've got the time to make the grassroots connections and get that message out.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Some people have asked us about that in New Hampshire.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I never talked about a wall of the north, I'm certainly not now. That's just what happens when things get run amok, this is just a joke in terms of how people react to things. I've said for some time that you need to secure the southern border. I've talked about the infrastructure, the personnel, the technology needed there. I've talked about enforcing the laws.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
This is just a joke in terms of how people react to things. I've said for some time that you need to secure the southern border. I've talked about the infrastructure, the personnel, the technology needed there. I've talked about enforcing the laws.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Because what we found is many of those same Independents turned around and vote — 11% of them voted for Barack Obama in the fall, they were, oddly enough, Obama-Walker voters, which politically makes no sense. Why? Because they were people hungry for leadership. They were frustrated because they felt that Romney hadn't offered a clear plan of what he would do.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The nation as a whole is not going to elect the next president, 12 states are, wisconsin's one of them. I'm sitting in another one right now, New Hampshire. There's going to be Colorado, where I was born, Iowa, where I lived, Ohio, Florida, a handful of other states. In total, it's about 11 or 12 states that are going elect the next president.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Some people have asked us about that in New Hampshire, they raised some very legitimate concerns, including some law enforcement folks that brought that up to me at one of our town hall meetings about a week and a half ago. So that is a legitimate issue for us to look at.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think it's just wrong, even though I don't know Sen. Cruz as well as I know some of the governors, I've grown to know him and like him and admire him quite a bit out on the campaign trail.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Let's be clear, the monitoring this proposes is an absolute joke. So anyone who pretends like that's somehow something that's extraordinary, it's not. This is some of the weakest monitoring.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
So the reason I'm talking about it is not because I'm a governor today. The reason I'm talking about it is because I'm running for president of the United States. And I'm going to be in a position to affect that.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't see a reason today to do that, certainly for us the most important thing we can do is lift the political restrictions this administration has put on the 3,000-some military personnel already in Iraq so they can go out and do what they're trained to do.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Governors aren't about foreign policy, they're about trade, which is exactly what I've done and many other great governors have done across the country, why would we be giving one of our highest honors, an official state visit, to a country that has been involved in something that directly has attacked our own government? It just doesn't make any sense. If anything, we should be taking them to the woodshed on this issue, not to the White House.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
There's a strong cultural bond there, there's a good tradition there, and it's one where that trust has been built, not just in the last few years, but over time.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Through the years, Wisconsin has built a strong trade relationship with China, and the opening of the Wisconsin Center China will help Wisconsin businesses continue to strengthen our trade relationships and grow export opportunities.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
There's serious work to be done rather than pomp andcircumstance. We need to see some backbone from President Obama on U.S.-China relations.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Given China's massive cyberattacks against America, its militarization of the South China Sea, continued state interference with its economy, and persistent persecution of Christians and human rights activists, President Obama needs to cancel the state visit, there's serious work to be done rather than pomp and circumstance. We need to see some backbone from President Obama on U.S.-China relations.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Somebody told me months and months ago here that you can't buy the vote in New Hampshire, you have to earn it, and that's come up over and over again, people want to hear you, they want to compare you.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
New Hampshire, though, is really kind of special here. They're accustomed to a lot of attention. We want to give them that kind of attention, we want to do it in unique ways.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I said to them, the voters had told us they wanted is to be big and be bold. As you can imagine, at the time, there were some Republican lawmakers who were kind of uneasy with the idea of taking on the status quo.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Think about this, we were told by Republican leaders during the campaign cycle last year that we just needed a Republican Senate to be elected to repeal Obamacare. Well, here we sit, you know both chambers of the United States Congress have been controlled since January by Republicans and yet there's not a bill on the President's desk to repeal Obamacare.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think part of the reason why we see some of the things we see across this country are because people want to send a message, i talk to voters all the time in this state and around the country who said, 'We want to send a message to Republican leaders in Washington that when you make promises on the campaign trail, we wanna see it.' Whether it's repealing Obamacare or standing up against illegal immigration.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I've laid out a number of important reforms when it comes to immigration early this year, not only about securing the border but enforcing the law, in light particularly of what we've seen with sanctuary cities that we need to make sure that we enforce the law in every part of this country and not just in some parts or the other.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I've talked about how going forward I believe we should change the rules, the law but in terms of deporting the best thing we can do is enforce the law, we enforce the law and require employers across America to uphold the law -- which means an effective E-verify system -- I think that ultimately puts us in a better place.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
You would't do it as a parent, we certainly shouldn't be doing it with the leading sponsor -- the leading country when it comes to state-sponsored terrorism.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
To me, the provisions in this deal are like telling teenage boys not only can you have the door closed, but we gotta shout up the stairs before we walk up the steps, 'Hey, we're coming up to check and see what you're doing, I just want to give you advance notice,'.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I've got two boys in college now, but when they were in high school, we used to have a rule that they could have friends over, including girls, as long as the door to their room was open, to me, the provisions in this deal are like telling teenage boys not only can you have the door closed, but we gotta shout up the stairs before we walk up the steps, 'Hey, we're coming up to check and see what you're doing, I just want to give you advance notice,'.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Donald Trump's just using the same old tired talking points of the Democrats and they didn't work in the past and they're certainly not going to work in Iowa.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I get attacked by Hillary Clinton, i get attacked by him with the same Democratic talking points this morning.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'm not going to trash talk the other opponents like some have. Instead I'm going to focus on what we have to offer, why we're the best candidate to take on the real opponent which is Hillary Clinton.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Before a debate, I go out and run. It's a great way to relax.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The next couple of days, you just kind of relax.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'm not going to take anybody, I'm going to say what I'm for.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
They don't just want a fighter, they want somebody who can fight and win.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think a big part of reform is taking big parts of the federal government ... and take them from Washington and send them back to the states.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We honor the memory of Sergeant Carson Holmquist, and we will never forget the courage and sacrifice he displayed serving this great country.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I have had a lifelong commitment to the Scouts and support the previous membership policy because it protected children and advanced Scout values.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Not a one of us deserves the job by right of resume, party, seniority, family, or family narrative, it's nobody's turn. It's everybody's test, and it's wide open -- exactly as a contest for president should be.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We need to have a responsible way that is legal and constitutional, but a way that we can make sure that if someone is an enemy combatant, or aligned with an enemy combatant, the United States and the people of this great country, we've got to have the tools we need to prevent another act from happening.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Short of (Florida) ... I think our message, common-sense conservative reform, could play just about anywhere out there.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Other than, maybe, Florida, where Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio are ... in some of the polls, essentially tied.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Really, for us though, we wanted to make it an educational focus, not just a media trip.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
This is great news for Wisconsin voters, as we've said, this is a common sense reform that protects the integrity of our voting process, making it easy to vote and hard to cheat.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I want to get this out of the way once and for all. I believe President Obama loves America and every single American in it. Except for Rudy Giuliani.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
And part of doing this is put the onus on employers, getting them E-Verify and tools to do that. But I don't think you do it through amnesty.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
My view has changed, I'm flat-out saying it. Candidates can say that, sometimes they don't.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the globe.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We need a president, a leader, who will stand up and say, 'we will take the fight to them and not wait until they bring the fight to America's soil, to our children and our grandchildren,'.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
You all will misconstrue things the way you see fit.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
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