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"Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security."
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"Workers come to America to fill jobs unwanted by Americans, but they are staying and they are not going home."

"If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy."

"Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain."

"According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third."

"For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development."

"Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request."

"No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces."

"It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."

"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."

"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
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