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“Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.”

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There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

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The solution to North Korea is the reunification of the Korean Peninsula. China could influence the North; it supplies 80 to 90 percent of…

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If I were doing the Security Council today, I'd have one permanent member, the United States, because that's the real reflection of the distribution…

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There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit…

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Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that's the threat. I think that is the threat. I think it's just facing…

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My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is…

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If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.

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Iran is barely over 50% Persian, and Arabs, Baluchis, Azeris, Kurds and many other groups feel left out of the society. That regime has…

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Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.

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There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.

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Reform is not a one-night stand.

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