There was no yelling, there was no screaming, no throwing things, so yeah, it was a good meeting, i'm sure we'll have probably many more of these, and again it's an opportunity to have a very big moment here and it's an opportunity for people to have their say, and we may not always agree but hopefully we can get along.

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About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.

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Its not about earning a paycheck, its about doing something good that you believe in.

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Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.

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I meet with ambassadors from all countries in my role as a member of Congress, and you always have better relationships with those you actually personally get along with. That matters. So if there is chemistry between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, maybe that can bode for something.

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Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.

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Russia is a competitor. They're a strong nation, something we need to recognize, but their economy is just a little bit bigger than Illinois, so they're not our equal. I think its important to engage them. And I think it's important that we continue to fight for human rights, which is essential to denying the next generation of terrorists their recruits and this is a long-term fight we're in when it comes to the war on terror. And I think the Russians are exacerbating this by making people displaced and killing families and that's how you lead to radicalization.

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I think Donald Trump needs to be very clear to Vladimir Putin. Let's try to discover areas we can work together. That's fine. We're two a world power. They're a great power arguably. But at the same time we're not going to give any ground. We have to defend our NATO allies.

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Putin knows how to run the KGB playbook. I mean, he knows how to work people.

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Vladimir Putin is a smart guy. I don't like him, smart guy. He is going to advance the cause of Russia until he hits a brick wall. He's hit a brick wall in a few areas. I think we need to make it clear that your growth of the former Soviet Union is over. You can be a great power that's respected. Fine. But this is not going to be the old Soviet Union.

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I thought you were going to defeat ISIS, that is why people voted for you. What changed ? This is weakness. America is far more honorable than this.

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I think President Donald Trump, President President Donald Trump, was wrong yesterday in a major way and I think it was a very embarrassing press conference.

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It was a really bad day for the President yesterday.

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politics

This was a show of force by the Russians to show us that they are still here.

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The world is safer with an engaged America, and I firmly believe our participation in NATO greatly matters to America’s national security.

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politics

South Carolina is a really natural fit for Jeb.

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If you ever have any doubt whether the Cold War is back on, I mean these are the kind of maneuvers that show that it is, i think there has been a re-establishment, probably not to the intensity it was in the '80s, but a re-establishment of, in essence, kind of Cold War principles, where, you know, at that time, it was all a show of force from both sides.

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That's why it's important for us to stand up now and make it very clear that we're not going to be bullied.

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world

We're not really engaged in this fight, at some point, we're going to have to understand that the goal is the destruction of ISIS.

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politics

Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.

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I love flying.

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