| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details)
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Abortion
Scott Walker: Passed pro-life legislation & defunded Planned Parenthood.
Carly Fiorina: Liberals believe in protecting flies, but not human life.
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Budget & Economy
Hillary Clinton: Go after shadow banking industry, like Lehman Brothers.
Martin O`Malley: Our economy was wrecked by the big banks of Wall Street.
Chris Christie: The rich are doing fine; cater to middle-income workers.
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Civil Rights
Bobby Jindal: Institution of marriage existed long before our laws existed.
Bobby Jindal: I pledge support for a religious freedom law.
Marco Rubio: One-man-one-woman marriage existed before our laws.
Rick Santorum: I would never attend a same-sex wedding.
Scott Walker: Constitutional amendment to prevent federal gay marriage.
Ted Cruz: Pray against a court decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
Ted Cruz: Liberals obsessed with mandatory gay marriage in 50 states.
Ted Cruz: Zealotry on same-sex marriage leaves out religious liberty.
Mike Huckabee: Same-sex marriage leads to criminalization of Christianity.
Mike Huckabee: Courts cannot unilaterally allow same-sex marriage.
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Corporations
Bernie Sanders: If Teddy Roosevelt saw modern banks he'd say "break them up".
Bernie Sanders: Wall Street will not be in my Cabinet; their model is fraud.
Hillary Clinton: AIG & Lehman were not big banks; we needed to bail them out.
Martin O`Malley: It's crony capitalism to bail out banks for bad bets.
Rick Santorum: Pro-worker Republican; only 10% of Americans own businesses.
Ted Cruz: Get senseless obstacles from Washington out of the way.
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Education
Bernie Sanders: $70B to make public colleges & universities tuition-free.
Bernie Sanders: Look at college degree like high school diploma 50 years ago.
Hillary Clinton: Make community college free, but not free college for all.
Martin O`Malley: Goal of affordable & debt-free college, like in Maryland.
Martin O`Malley: Dad went to college on GI bill; kids went on pile of bills.
Bernie Sanders: College loan repayment is regressive; refinance & forgive.
Mike Huckabee: Common Core morphed into a frankenstandard that I oppose.
Rick Santorum: Reform education; only 30% get college degrees.
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Energy & Oil
Bernie Sanders: Climate change partly causes rise of terrorist groups.
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Environment
Chris Christie: Ethanol in gasoline is the law; and that's just the minimum.
George Pataki: Opposed to RFS: no ethanol mandate in gasoline.
Jeb Bush: Let the market decide on RFS' ethanol in gasoline.
Mike Huckabee: Ethanol mandate is a matter of national security.
Rick Perry: Ethanol waiver in Texas but not in Iowa: let states decide.
Rick Santorum: Ethanol mandate brings jobs & energy independence.
Scott Walker: Keep ethanol mandate until oil companies allow free market.
Ted Cruz: Don't pick winners & losers like RFS' ethanol in gasoline.
Scott Walker: Freeze stewardship program for state lands.
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Families & Children
Ted Cruz: Defend Judeo-Christian values against liberal fascism.
Ted Cruz: Opposes the unrelenting assault on traditional marriage.
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Foreign Policy
Hillary Clinton: We spend a lot on development aid, even in war zones.
Mike Huckabee: Globalists & corporatists are making US more like China.
Mike Huckabee: Keep the Cuban embargo; lifting it rewards Cuba.
Rick Perry: Easing restrictions on Cuba hurts the Cuban people.
Carly Fiorina: I've accomplished something by traveling around the world.
John Bolton: America is a benign force globally.
Mike Huckabee: Islamic terrorism is the country's most pressing issue.
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Free Trade
Bernie Sanders: I strongly opposed NAFTA and DOMA from their inception.
Mike Huckabee: Trans Pacific Partnership isn't fair trade or free trade.
Rick Perry: China practices communism at night & capitalism in daytime.
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Government Reform
Hillary Clinton: Wall Street donates to me because I rebuilt them after 9/11.
Hillary Clinton: GOP is trying to suppress voter registration.
Ben Carson: 5-year federal hiring freeze, to decrease size of government.
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Gun Control
Bernie Sanders: Do more than reverse gun manufacturer immunity.
Hillary Clinton: Reverse gun manufacturer immunity; let them get sued.
Martin O`Malley: Baltimore was safer with my comprehensive gun safety law.
Martin O`Malley: Time to work together to crack down on gun manufacturers.
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Health Care
Donald Trump: ObamaCare is a catastrophe that must be repealed & replaced.
Donald Trump: Save Medicare & Medicaid without cutting them to the bone.
Ted Cruz: Support nuns' battle for religious liberty against ObamaCare.
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Homeland Security
Bernie Sanders: Rid our planet of this barbarous organization called ISIS.
Bernie Sanders: We spend billions on nuclear weapons & only 10% on terrorism.
Hillary Clinton: Adversaries of the future: terrorists as well as drone subs.
Martin O`Malley: Nature of warfare has changed: focus on intel, not armies.
Bernie Sanders: Cut defense by $18B to pay for 55% of all college tuition.
Carly Fiorina: On Benghazi: I'm familiar with America's allies and enemies.
Donald Trump: Defeat ISIS and stop Islamic terrorists.
John Bolton: America is less secure now than we were six years ago.
Newt Gingrich: Threat of militant Islam is comparable to pre-WWII Nazis.
Sarah Palin: Muslim jihadists threaten our way of life.
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Immigration
Hillary Clinton: Net immigration from Mexico has fallen to zero.
Martin O`Malley: Our symbol is the Statue of Liberty, not a barbed wire fence.
Scott Walker: We have too many legal immigrants.
Lindsey Graham: Legal status for undocumented workers.
Ben Carson: Use Canadian model for guest worker program.
Jeb Bush: Immigrants are an engine of economic vitality.
Ben Carson: Common-sense solutions: guest workers plus harsher penalties.
Rick Perry: If Washington refuses to enforce the border, Texas will.
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Jobs
Bernie Sanders: $15 minimum wage might lose some jobs, but it helps many.
Hillary Clinton: $12 minimum wage, indexed for the future.
Martin O`Malley: Maryland was first state to pass a living wage of $10.10.
Scott Walker: Anti-state unions but pro-private unions.
Rick Perry: The official unemployment rate is massaged and doctored.
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Principles & Values
Scott Walker: My relationship with God drives every major decision.
Scott Walker: Raised as a "P.K.", Pastor's Kid, by his father Pastor Llew.
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Tax Reform
Bernie Sanders: Wealthiest will pay more but not as much as under Eisenhower.
Martin O`Malley: Wealthiest should pay more but not as much as under Reagan.
Rick Perry: Lower taxes & less regulation made Texas a job leader.
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War & Peace
Bernie Sanders: Invasion of Iraq led to ISIS; Hillary voted to invade.
Martin O`Malley: ISIS is an evil in this world; deal with them as evil.
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