Iraq
“Democrats in congress are emboldening the enemy with their votes on funding the war in Iraq.”
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"I think we have to turn over policing responsibility for the Iraqis as rapidly as possible. Pull our troops out as rapidly as possible."
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“I don’t believe we should be arguing about American commitment in Iraq. The only exit strategy in Iraq is victory. Now, if that’s true, then we should be able to reassure every Iraqi we’re not leaving till the bad guys are defeated.”
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“If we summarily get beaten in Iraq, and what’s what we’re talking about, if we are defeated in Iraq, there are not enough Marine elements in the world to evacuate the embassies that’ll come under siege.”
Other Foreign Policy Issues
"Israel wouldn't leave southern Lebanon as long as there was a single missile there. I would go in and clean them all out and I would announce that any Iranian airplane trying to bring missiles to re-supply them would be shot down. This idea that we have this one-sided war where the other team gets to plan how to kill us and we get to talk, is nuts."
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“Well the larger war is a war with the irreconcilable wing of Islam. They are motivated by religious belief, hate our civilization, are determined to defeat us, say publicly that they’d like to kill as many of us as they can. They’re a world-wide threat. You had six of them picked up in New Jersey, eight of them in Great Britain; you have plots in Germany, and in Holland and in Denmark. You have the French carefully monitoring people. In addition to bombs going off in Algeria, you have threats in Morocco, bombs in India, threats in the Philippines and in Thailand where over two thousand people have been killed. So I think you have to recognize that it’s a much bigger campaign than people realize. And in order to win it I think we have to start designing a strategy on a scale comparable to that of our opposition. I think that’s a real challenge, our system is naturally inclined not to do that.”
Climate Change/Energy
“To protect and sustain Earth's vitality, we must endeavor to calculate, monitor, and control humanity's footprint, finding workable solutions to reverse the historical trend of waste, pollution, depletion, and degradation.”
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“I think we should have a billion-dollar tax-free prize for a hydrogen engine that can be produced at a commercially available price. I think that we should have a substantial prize for developing the first engine that can be mass produced that gets 100 miles or more to the gallon of fuel. I think that we should have a substantial research program under way for dramatically better ethanol products than corn or cane sugar.”
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“I think that we'd get results dramatically faster if we adopted large tax credits for non-carbon systems, including nuclear power. If we produced the same level of our electricity from nuclear as the French do, we would take 2,200,000 tons a year of carbon out of the atmosphere. That would be 15 percent better than the Kyoto treaty goal, and it would be almost a third of all the carbon produced by the U.S. annually.”
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“No, I accept that it is one of the causes. We don't actually know what percent of what's going on is caused by carbon, and we don't know what percent of what's going on is caused by human beings. People assert more certainty about climatology than actually exists in science right now. But I think as a conservative that it is better to be prudent, and I don't require that people convince me that this is dangerous to convince me that we need to reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.”
Healthcare
“… my goal should be for every American to have health insurance coverage. We should start by vouchering Medicaid money so that people who are the healthy poor can go out and buy insurance and be part of the insurance pool. We should then provide tax credits for the working poor and small businesses and then the current tax deductibility for everybody above that.
We should apply the same tax deductibility whether you personally want to buy your own insurance or whether you buy it through a company.”
Education
“We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto."
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"Look, people are misunderstanding what I'm saying," Gingrich then said in a YouTube video. "What I was simply saying is that a language barrier -- any language barrier, whether you speak Hindi, Chinese, Vietnamese -- hampers a person's ability to communicate in the language of prosperity."
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Improving math and science education is the single greatest challenge to our continued economic and national security leadership. Without a profound improvement in math and science learning, America will simply not be able to sustain its national security nor compete for high value jobs in the world market.
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We therefore need to foster and encourage teacher specialists who have mastered a subject matter, such as engineers and mathematicians. They should be allowed to teach after taking only one course on the fundamentals of teaching. They should be allowed to teach part-time so that more professionals can have the opportunity to share their knowledge and experience in the classroom. Moreover, every state should pass a law establishing an absolute preference for part-time specialists with real knowledge over full-time teachers who do not know the subject. By the 2008 school year, no one should be allowed to teach math and science that is not competent in the subject matter.
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We should reward the best and brightest high school graduates and fully fund their further education.
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We should reward and encourage private sector participation in math and science education. We should provide a tax credit to corporations that fund basic research in science and technology at our nation’s universities.
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“Congressman Frank Wolf was exactly right in a letter he sent to President Bush in May that cited the urgent national security need to triple the federal budget allocation for innovation – basic science research and development -- over the next decade.”
Homeland Security
“We must contain powers that could threaten us, including China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and Pakistan—all of which have weapons of mass destruction. we must create a broad alliance of countries willing to defend peace and freedom. Just as the Cold War was fought in part as a propaganda war pitting the appeal of democracy against communism, so too we need the Peace Corps and other government agencies to sponsor pro-Western secular schools and charities throughout the Islamic world. Most important, we need big broadcast networks that communicate to the Islamic world Western ideas about the rule of law, private property, and freedom. We need to broadcast our civic culture so that the Arab world gets a different view of the West than what it gets from Al Jazeera and Michael Moore.
Simultaneously leading the world, defeating the Irreconcilable Islamists, forcing rogue dictatorships into acceptable behavior (or replacing them), building up our intelligence and military capabilities to cope with China and Russia and other threats, making the necessary transformations in our foreign policy bureaucracy, and securing our homeland will be an enormous undertaking.”
Family
“I certainly think that we have every right to defend traditional marriage...whether it’s by passing a law or a constitutional amendment. Given what the judges in Massachusetts did, they in effect single handedly by judicial fiat began to change what had been several thousand years of tradition and history. I think it’s a profound mistake for judges to engage in social engineering.”
Taxes/Fiscal Policy
“We should abolish the death tax. We should abolish the capital gains tax; you can go down a list of these things.”
Illegal Immigration
“…I think, to have border control truly work, you have to have what I would call a Blue Card Guest Worker Program where they have to give you an iris scan, a thumb print, agree to obey the law, and sign a contract that says if they break the law, we can remove them from the U.S. in 48 hours.”
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“At the same time I would say to anybody who’s in the U.S. illegally -- once we’ve created this program, we’re going to take your iris scan, take your thumb print, kick you out of the U.S. and you will be on a computerized database and we won’t let you back in for a minimum of 10 years.”
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“The border should be controlled. English should be the official language of government.”
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“Eliminate bilingual education and move to immersion in English as a way of teaching people… Require people that want to be citizens give up voting back home.”
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