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Quotations
"Politicians love to ask for more defense spending," he writes, "yet the fact is, America's defenses have been decaying for decades despite increasing budgets."
"It's time for the Republicans who are so bent on enforcing conformity to ask themselves a question: What would Ronald Reagan have done? ... We need to remind the Republicans who want to enforce ideological purity that if they succeed, they will undo Reagan's work to create an inclusive party that could fit many different views," he says.
