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I’m NOT over yet - continued:

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• Stop forcing pro-choice morality on religious organizations. (Jun 2011)
• Immediately cease public funding for abortion providers. (Jun 2011)
• Impeach judges who don’t abide by Constitution as written. (Oct 2005)
• Most Americans are pro-choice and anti-abortion. (Jun 1995)
• Don’t bail out Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae; break them up. (Dec 2011)
• Dodd-Frank kills small business & small banks. (Nov 2011)
• Only leadership can balance the budget. (Sep 2011)
• Modernizing government would save $500B per year in waste. (Sep 2011)
• No sequel to failed stimulus & job-killing policies. (Sep 2011)
• The Fed’s secrecy & power are antithetical to a free society. (Sep 2011)
• Put people back to work to raise revenues without taxes. (Sep 2011)
• The Super-committee is as dumb an idea as I’ve ever heard. (Aug 2011)
• It’s a scandal that the Federal Reserve is secret. (Aug 2011)
• Federal government pays at least $150B a year to crooks. (Jul 2011)
• Insure banks rather than pass out checks. (Apr 2010)
• 1995-97: Pushed for (and got) capital gains tax cut. (Apr 2010)
• Bailout combines bad policy with worst of Detroit’s decay. (Jul 2009)
• 1995 budget: cut taxes, regulations, & spending. (Aug 2008)
• Negotiated 1998 budget: first one balanced since 1969. (Jun 2004)
• Achieve balanced budget by 2002. (Jan 1995)
• Demand a Balanced Budget amendment. (Jul 2010)
• Limit federal spending growth to per-capita inflation rate. (Jul 2010)
• Supports balanced budget amendment & line item veto. (Sep 1994)
• Loyalty test for everyone, not just for Muslims. (Aug 2011)
• Stop forcing same-sex marriage on religious organizations. (Jun 2011)
• Helped oust Iowa justices who approved same-sex marriage. (May 2011)
• ACLU lawsuits designed to drain resources of Boy Scouts. (Feb 2008)
• Five justices banned school prayer against American majority. (Dec 2006)
• Foreign opinion has no relevance to US same-sex marriage. (Oct 2005)
• Discontinue affirmative action programs. (Nov 1998)
• ACLU has become eccentric and destructive. (Jul 1998)
• NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds. (Jul 1998)
• America is multi-ethnic but not multi-cultural. (Jun 1995)
• Affirmative action OK individually, but not by group. (Jun 1995)
• 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act drives IPOs out of the US. (Dec 2007)
• Bureaucracy & litigation are enemies of entrepreneurship. (Jun 1995)
• Supports Prison Fellowship InnerChange Freedom Initiative. (Dec 2007)
• 3-strike laws are constitutional; enforce courts compliance. (Oct 2005)
• Convert decommissioned military bases into prisons. (Jun 1995)
• Voted NO on replacing death penalty with life imprisonment. (Apr 1994)
• Marijuana legalization would tear America apart. (Apr 2011)
• International drug traders use network for terrorist traffic. (Nov 2006)
• Increase penalties for illegal drugs. (Nov 1998)
• Drug-free society focuses on both drug supply & demand. (Jul 1998)
• More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty. (Sep 1994)
• College students should work and graduate with no debt. (Nov 2011)
• Dramatically shrink the federal Department of Education. (Sep 2011)
• I liked charter school programs in Obama’s Race to the Top. (Sep 2011)
• Let parents choose public, private, parochial, or homeschool. (Jun 2011)
• More learning options: community college-run charter schools. (Dec 2007)
• Offer coupons to send kids to schools that work best. (Dec 2007)
• America’s high schools are obsolete. (Sep 2007)
• Pay kids as incentive to learn math and science. (Sep 2007)
• Removing God from Pledge of Allegiance assaults our identity. (Dec 2006)
• Replace multiculturalism with patriotic education. (Dec 2006)
• Reference to God in Pledge of Allegiance is not ceremonial. (Dec 2006)
• Introduce competition among schools and teachers. (Dec 2006)
• Encourage private sector in math and science education. (Dec 2006)
• Waive interest on student loans for math & science grads. (Sep 2003)
• Support charters; insist on change for failing schools. (Jul 1998)
• Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools. (Jul 1998)
• 1984: All-night Congressional vigil on school prayer vote. (Jun 1995)
• Voucherize inner-city programs from schools to groceries. (Jun 1995)
• Voluntary school prayer creates bond between you and Creator. (Jun 1995)
• 1963 Supreme Court school prayer ban was just wrong. (Jun 1995)
• Voted YES on giving federal aid only to schools allowing voluntary prayer. (Mar 1994)
• Make employee educational assistance tax-deductible. (Jan 1993)
• Supports a Constitutional Amendment for school prayer. (May 1997)
• Put nuclear waste in deep storage for 10,000 years. (Oct 2011)
• Every green tax credit is a tax loophole. (Sep 2011)
• 2008 petition drive: Drill here, Drill now, Pay less. (Feb 2011)
• New nuclear plants would reduce 2 billion tons of CO2 a year. (Feb 2011)
• Billion-dollar prize for first mass-produced hydrogen car. (Dec 2007)
• Kyoto treaty is bad for the environment and bad for America. (Dec 2006)
• Focus on incentives for conservation & renewable resources. (Dec 2006)
• Stop scare tactics about drilling in Alaska. (Dec 2006)
• Gas tax sounds OK in DC, but not outside Beltway. (Jul 1998)
• Cap-and-trade has no impact on global temperatures. (Jul 2010)
• Explore proven energy reserves & keep energy prices low. (Jul 2010)
• EPA should not regulate dust storms in Iowa. (Jan 2012)
• Critical Katrina recovery by energetic church volunteers. (Jun 2011)
• Replace EPA with new Environmental Solutions Agency. (Feb 2011)
• Katrina’s collapse of New Orleans was avoidable. (Dec 2007)
• Boston’s Big Dig was a classic pork barrel project. (Dec 2007)
• Reject apocalyptic warnings; they only lead to higher taxes. (Dec 2007)
• Greatest enviro dangers are poverty & command bureaucracy. (Sep 2007)
• Combine healthy environment and a healthy economy. (Dec 2006)
• Early 1980s: co-sponsored Endangered Species Act. (Jun 1995)
• Regulating 15 more contaminants under Clean Water Act. (Oct 1993)
• Let poor kids work so they learn like middle class. (Dec 2011)
• Responsibility for child’s education resides with parents. (Jun 2011)
• Aging baby boomers need more independent & assisted living. (Sep 2007)
• Marriage penalty costs low-income couples $4,600 per year. (Jun 1995)
• 1979: his marriage collapsed because “all humans sin”. (Jun 1995)
• Use tax code to reinforce families. (Sep 1994)
• Tell the truth: Palestinians are an “invented people”. (Dec 2011)
• Corruption from our bureaucrats giving bureaucrats money. (Sep 2011)
• We have failed for a decade to deal with North Korea & Iran. (Sep 2011)
• We need a dramatically expanded use of statecraft. (May 2007)
• Lead the world into Third Wave Information Age. (Jul 1995)
• American Exceptionalism: uniquely far-reaching individualism. (Jun 1995)
• Protectionism helps China & India challenge US supremacy. (Dec 2006)
• Mutual trade: neither free trade nor protectionism. (Jun 1995)
• Historically ignorant leaders make suicidally stupid policy. (Oct 2011)
• Press corps focuses on campaign minutia & not basic ideas. (Aug 2011)
• The era of big government is over, and I mean it. (Jul 2011)
• Abolish all White House Czars. (Jul 2011)
• Constitution begins “we the people” not “we the government”. (Nov 2010)
• Democrats say they oppose earmarks, but proposed 8,000. (Feb 2009)
• GOP wins election and then loses the government. (Feb 2008)
• End judicial supremacy; preserve our Godly heritage. (Dec 2007)
• Replace bureaucratic mindset with Entrepreneurial Management. (Sep 2007)
• Insist on judges who understand our rights come from God. (Dec 2006)
• Supreme Court has become permanent Constitutional Convention. (Dec 2006)
• Insist on judges who understand our rights come from God. (Dec 2006)
• Our rights come from God, not from government. (Dec 2006)
• Contract With America: deep cuts in Medicare/Medicaid/taxes. (Nov 2003)
• Increase federal limits on individual campaign contributions. (Nov 1998)
• Established systems are inherently hostile to change. (Jul 1998)
• 1995 government shutdown from GOP underestimating Clinton. (Jul 1998)
• 1994 GOP victory destroyed bipartisanship. (Jul 1998)
• Elected on anti-corruption platform in 1978. (Jul 1998)
• Government should take management lesson from private sector. (Jul 1998)
• Rethink every aspect of bureaucracy. (Jul 1998)
• Class mobility is key part of America’s genius. (Jul 1995)
• Wrote “Contract with America” as conservative platform. (Jun 1995)
• Identify constitutionality in every new congressional bill. (Jul 2010)
• Audit federal agencies, to reform or eliminate them. (Jul 2010)
• Moratorium on all earmarks until budget is balanced. (Jul 2010)
• Limit punitive damages; term limits on Congress. (Sep 1994)
• Government is too big, too intrusive, too easy with money. (Sep 1994)
• Don’t redefine Constitution with no individual right to arms. (Oct 2005)
• HillaryCare mandate ok; ObamaCare mandate unconstitutional. (Dec 2011)
• No mandatory premium support model; give people choices. (Nov 2011)
• Medicare pays crooks; contract it out to private companies. (Nov 2011)
• Block grant Medicaid; create individual incentives & bonuses. (Nov 2011)
• Rampant Medicaid/Medicare fraud: stop paying the crooks. (Jul 2011)
• If you mandate healthcare, you mandate everything in life. (Jun 2011)
• House GOP Medicare plan was right-wing social engineering. (Jun 2011)
• Repeal ObamaCare; sign tort reform instead. (Feb 2011)
• 21st-century personalized intelligent health system. (Dec 2007)
• Focus on health as a moral issue. (Dec 2007)
• Medicare opt-in to private health savings accounts. (Dec 2006)
• Focus 21st Century Intelligent Health System on individuals. (Dec 2006)
• Market competition yields more health choice at lower prices. (Dec 2006)
• 1994: Declined gov’t insurance but gov’t paid 75% anyway. (Nov 2003)
• Save dollars and save lives—so transform urgently. (Sep 2003)
• System broken due to “perfect storm” of converging problems. (Sep 2003)
• Tax credits for developing technology for disabilities. (Sep 2003)
• Re-focus Medicare on preventive health instead of sickness. (Sep 2003)
• Market dynamics can save healthcare, not government control. (Sep 2003)
• Focus on prevention; would save $14B with diabetes. (Jul 1998)
• Ongoing battle against liberals nationalizing healthcare. (Jul 1998)
• Too much reform puts 1/7 of US economy at risk. (Jun 1995)
• Defund, repeal, & replace federal care with free market. (Jul 2010)
• All of us will be in danger for the rest of our lives. (Nov 2011)
• Every tool possible against terrorists, incluing PATRIOT Act. (Nov 2011)
• It’s nonsense to disarm America to balance the budget. (Oct 2011)
• Real danger of Iran getting nukes from Pakistan. (Sep 2011)
• We have enemies that want disasters on an enormous scale. (Sep 2011)
• Defense as percentage of GDP is lowest since WWII. (Jul 2011)
• Post-9/11, it’s terrorism vs. civilization. (Sep 2009)
• Be prepared in a very militant and aggressive way. (Feb 2009)
• Gingrich-plus-up: $1B increase in 1990s Pentagon funding. (Dec 2007)
• Contain nuclear threats:China, Russia, Pakistan, North Korea. (Sep 2007)
• 1980s: Supported squadron of 132 B-2 stealth bombers. (May 2007)
• Military tribunals to lock people up the way Lincoln did. (May 2007)
• Defend America & allies with information policies. (Dec 2006)
• Biological threat bigger than nuclear threat. (Sep 2003)
• Wishes he volunteered for Vietnam; exempt due to young kids. (Jun 1995)
• Create transitional program for returning vets, like in WWII. (Jan 2012)
• Go to college instead of 99 weeks of unemployment. (Nov 2011)
• Fundamentally wrong to give unemployment pay for 99 weeks. (Sep 2011)
• The American people create jobs; not government. (Sep 2011)
• Jobs & Prosperity Plan: cut business taxes & regulations. (Jul 2011)
• Defund National Labor Relations Board; favor right-to-work. (Jun 2011)
• Number one job today is to create jobs. (Feb 2011)
• Unions want to take away right to secret-ballot elections. (Dec 2007)
• Union leaders prefer protection over competition. (Sep 2007)
• Unions focus on politics; corporations on doing business. (Jul 1998)
• Incentives to businesses create jobs & raise wages. (Sep 1994)
• Is Obama a socialist? “Sure, of course he is”. (Sep 2011)
• Tea Party prevents mistake of electing conservative Dems. (Jul 2011)
• If you’re not loyal to U.S., you can’t serve in my Cabinet. (Jun 2011)
• Start speaking out in favor of American Exceptionalism. (Jun 2011)
• American Exceptionalism is central to our nation’s survival. (Jun 2011)
• Declaration assumes God created man. (Jun 2011)
• Five habits of liberty sustain American Exceptionalism. (Jun 2011)
• Red-blue split in America is 85% Americans and 15% fringe. (Dec 2007)
• Red-vs.-Blue fails: propose Red-White-and-Blue solutions. (Dec 2007)
• Creator as source of liberty is literally written in stone. (Dec 2006)
• Media-academic-legal elite imposes radical secularist vision. (Dec 2006)
• Constitution says freedom OF religion, not FROM religion. (Dec 2006)
• Supreme Court hostile to religion, but building based on it. (Dec 2006)
• Reform traditional instruments of gov’t for 21st century. (Dec 2006)
• Focus on 5 major challenges for the 21st century. (Dec 2006)
• Politics is war without blood. (Feb 2003)
• Polls are biased left; GOP wins on the issues. (Jul 1998)
• GOP represents people, but Dems communicate better. (Jul 1998)
• Baby Boomers becoming Republicans while Dems become outdated. (Jul 1998)
• Liberals exploit weakness; conservatives offer strength. (Jul 1998)
• Culture of irresponsibility began in 1965. (Jul 1995)
• Our civilization is a shared opportunity to pursue happiness. (Jul 1995)
• Search for progress in successful lessons of the past. (Jun 1995)
• Many newspaper editorial boards contain socialists. (Jun 1995)
• If you’re afraid or broke or uneducated, you’re not free. (Jan 1995)
• Establish Social Security savings accounts, like Chile. (Jan 2012)
• Take Social Security off federal budget; give young a choice. (Nov 2011)
• Get social security out of budget; make personal accounts. (Nov 2011)
• Take away politicians’ power & control over our retirement. (Sep 2011)