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"I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me."
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"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."

"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."

"Good riddance to the blatantly corrupt Democratic Party!"

"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."
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"Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government."

"In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong."

"There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy."

"I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today."

"I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs."

"I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change."
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