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I was a case officer, otherwise known as an operations officer. My role was to go out and convince Al Qaeda operatives to instead work with us as well as to convince people and officials in foreign governments to work on behalf of the U.S. government secretly. Evan McMullin
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We need to get serious about defeating ISIS; we just aren't serious about it yet. I would be very serious about getting it done. I know how to do it. We need to take the fight to them on the battlefield in a more serious way. Evan McMullin
Fight Way Battlefield Would Would-Be About More Take Know How Very Get Done Getting Just Them Serious Defeating Need
I spent over ten years in the Central Intelligence Agency as an undercover operations officer serving overseas after 9/11 where I carried out covert operations against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, as well as other countries who are 'hostile to liberty,' as I like to say. Evan McMullin
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I do believe that power needs to be returned to the states. I think that we've got way too much power in Washington. This is where I'm focused: way too much power in Washington. Evan McMullin
Needs Too Much Power Believe Think Too Way States Focused Returned Got Where Much Washington
I'm a gun owner and strong supporter of the Second Amendment. Evan McMullin
Strong Gun Strong Supporter Supporter Amendment Owner Second Second Amendment
If there is anyone who should not be trusted with regard to intelligence, it is Donald Trump, both in the literal sense and with regard to our intelligence services. He shouldn't have access to these briefings. Evan McMullin
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Donald Trump himself has financial ties to oligarchs in Russia who are close to Putin. Evan McMullin
Financial Russia Putin Himself Ties Trump Close Donald Donald Trump Who
I am an originalist, to begin with. So, I am a constitutional conservative. I believe that the Constitution enshrines some universal ideals that make our country strong and that are consistent with truth, and so that's the basic thing. Evan McMullin
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Democracies don't fight each other. Terrorists don't tend to come from places where they feel like they have recourse in a political system. Evan McMullin
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God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease. Frank Knox
God Family Ease Beds Intend Did Heaven Human Human Family Flowery
Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices. Frank Knox
Think Our Some Most Occasionally Said Just Us Prejudices Rearrange
I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control. Gale Norton
Year Control Approaches Market Air Spend Air Pollution Hoover Institute Pollution Researching Stanford
What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation. Gale Norton
Heart Dear Cooperative Near Conservation
In Washington, there's always an effort to label people. Gale Norton
People Always Label Effort Washington
I was a little too young to be a hippie. Gale Norton
Young Too Hippie Little
The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected. Gale Norton
Opportunity Care Pay Tortoise Costs Gives Area Take Take Care Developers Long-Term Protected Manage Going Move Decide Us Enhancing
Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners. Gale Norton
Management Build Programs Local Our Local Level One Of The Things Partnerships Surrounding Gets Going Predators Land Agencies Communities Level Things
Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses. Gale Norton
Needs Responsibility Our Variety Meaning Lands Uses
I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving. Gale Norton
People Problem Sit Down Think Approaches Our Solving Get Problem-Solving Cooperative Conservation
Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time. Gale Norton
Time Natural Long Long Time Resources Relying Going Human Human Beings Natural Resources Beings
The science of life is changing hearts and minds. Gary Bauer
Life Science Changing Minds Hearts
Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when it comes to immigration, the single biggest contributor to population growth in the industrial world, they stand largely silent. Gary Bauer
Family Rights World Immigration Abortion Single Keys Silent Outspoken Smaller Support Environmentalists Global Industrial Global Warming Reducing Been Contributor Size Biggest Warming Stand Population Population Growth Largely Growth
As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo. Gary Bauer
Will Long Colorado Over Always Built Go Condo Available Land Homes Residents
Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls. Gary Bauer
Politics Broken Suffering Crisis Beyond Institutions Souls West Families
When it comes to social issues, Republicans don't just need to be more empathetic. They also need to be more emphatic in explaining to voters what they believe, and why. Gary Bauer
Believe More Empathetic Emphatic Voters Also Issues Just Republicans Explaining Social Social Issues Why Need
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle. Gary Bauer
Virtue Guiding Empathy Principle Judicial Should
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