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Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.

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Income, Wealthy, Added, None

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

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Wealth, Poverty, Ultimate, Panacea

I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.

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Big, Before, Harm, Risking

You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.

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Want, Leave, Some, Target

If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.

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Want, Cherish, Religious, Inappropriate

I allowed Rick Santorum to express views and ideas that the American people never would have had expressed.

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Ideas, Express, Allowed, Rick

On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.

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Security, Superior, National, Rick

Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.

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Country, Serve, Eagerness, Rick

Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.

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Manager, Grandson, His, Rick

President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.

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I Think, Had, Obama, Indonesia

In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance.

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Woman, Year, Benefits, Allowance

There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.

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Values, Idea, Maybe, Tolerance

Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.

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Through, Average, Cost, Struggle

The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

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Business, Small, Big, Big Business

I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.

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Business, Happen, Over, Ran

Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a result of the generosity of fat cats.

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College, Go, Libraries, Cleveland

I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.

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My Life, Born, Again, Board

Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.

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Humor, Just, Filled, So Much Fun

I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'

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Die, Maybe, I Think, Ought

I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

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Think, Some, I Think, Educate

It can be tough to find areas where Left and Right can agree. Consider the well-being of children: Americans often disagree about how to raise kids, how to educate them, even what to feed them.

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Well-Being, Often, About, Educate

I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

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Been, Four, Very, Apart

What do wealthy people do with their money? They can only buy so many cars, houses, and steak dinners. So we either give it away or invest it.

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Give, Away, Wealthy, Dinners

In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.

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Values, Curve, Which, Bell

I want to make sure the people we elect to office believe in America.

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Office, Want, Sure, Elect

Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.

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Face, Person, Concerned, As Far As

It's so sad to see how few people in the Obama administration have any private sector experience.

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Private, Private Sector, Obama Administration

The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.

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Natural, United, Reports, Starvation

The press called me a billionaire, and my wife came up and said I must be squirreling money away.

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Wife, Away, Billionaire, Press

Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.

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Success, Political, Should, Entrepreneurial

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