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Trent Franks

Profession : Politician

Birth : June 19, 1957

My district is well-acquainted with my commitment to protecting innocent human life.

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The Constitution gives the Congress absolute authority within the District of Columbia on any legislative issues whatsoever.

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When the Left doesn't want to make abortion the issue, they say you're being against minorities.

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Businesses - we protect our businesses with the guns, our banks, our money. We protect politicians with guns.

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When it comes to our children, the most precious treasure God ever gives us, we protect them with a little sign that says, 'No guns allowed.'

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I think Paul Ryan would make a great speaker. And people like him are the kinds of people that we need.

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If Donald Trump is our nominee, I don't think that he represents the best our party has to offer either in temperament or qualification, and I think he's the weakest candidate that is in the race at this point in terms of the general election, and that to nominate him is to give Hillary Clinton a much better chance of being president.

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The people still get to choose whether they want to support conservatives or if they want to support Mr. Trump, whose record is not conservative.

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The reality is for 50 years in this country, federal law has required people that are illegal - or that are immigrants - or that are legal immigrants to this country to carry documentation to that effect. And that has been the law for 50 years.

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My own wife is from the Philippines and came here legally to this country, and there are a lot of people that want to be part of this nation, and I want them to be part of this nation.

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Once in a while, a person finds his humanity in a way that astounds his contemporaries.

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Either the Obamacare is a dead letter, or the origination clause is; we can't have both.

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The comment that I've made is that if unaccompanied minors can cross the border, then certainly trained terrorists probably can, too.

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If we have to do enhanced interrogation on terrorists, then I can live with that.

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I so respect Sen. McCain's service to this country, and no one certainly knows more about torture than he does, and so I recognize that.

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The American public should know that the Senate report actually reveals that 82% of detainees subjected to enhanced interrogation did, in fact, produce intelligence that saved American lives.

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It's a strong country, but Mr. Obama seems to be doing everything he can to hold it back.

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Paul Ryan, along with Daniel Webster, is a totally, deeply revered and respected individual in this Congress. And I love both of them. Both of them would have made good speakers. Both of them would make a good pallbearer for a man like me. They're that dear to me.

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On the Republican Party platform and the major issues of the Republican Party, Charlie Dent is significantly removed from those foundational principles in his voting record.

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We have to defeat them on the battlefield and in the marketplace of ideals. And PBS, I believe, owed the nation the chance to hear the moderate Muslim voices who decry terrorism and Jihadism, and they didn't give them that chance, and that's a terrible thing.

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