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I'm a Texan - my idea of gun control is hitting what you aim at and nothing else.

We can't get serious about immigration reform until we stop people from crossing the border illegally.

Nobody in the Washington regulatory bureaucracy gets fired for saying no.

Drug testing for recipients of various welfare programs - I really think that's something that needs to be considered.

In 2012, the Supreme Court upheld President Obama's overreaching mandate that forces every American to purchase health insurance or face a fine.

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Human trafficking robs victims of their basic human rights, and it occurs right under our noses. Many efforts have been focused in other regions of the world, but this is a major problem here at home.

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It's said that you can tell a lot about someone by who opposes them. In the case of liberal pundit Bill Maher - a man who called America's actions cowardly in the wake of 9/11 and who mocked WWII veterans who wanted to visit the monument built in their honor - I wear his disapproval of me as a badge of honor.

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I think that we're so generous in some of our social problems that people are unwilling to get a job outside in the heat. Rather than get 15 dollars to go get roofing, they'd rather get 9 or 10 dollars in benefits.

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I've been through several of his campaigns, and I can tell you nobody can out-campaign Rick Perry.

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I went in with the youthful vigor that I could single-handedly change the world. But you fast come to the realization that you're 1/435th of one-half of one-third of the government.

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