Too often in the wake of tragedies like this, advocates on both sides of the debate, use the debate towards their own end, moving to a large debate on gun control I don't think is what should come in the immediate aftermath, within 24 hours, of this tragedy taking place.

Mark Sanford

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In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of chang... by Mark Sanford

In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.

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The top threat that gets very little focus from Washington these days is what Adm. Mike Mullen identified as the biggest threat to the U.S.: the American debt.

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I think it would be much better for the country and for (Clinton) personally (to resign). I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he'd be gone.

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Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.

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Sin is ground in the notion of what is there that I want. by Mark Sanford

Sin is ground in the notion of what is there that I want.

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I was assigned to a medical unit and was part of a group receiving men returning from theater headed to hospital care, many forever maimed with life-altering wounds. It made a strong impression because wounded men and body bags come back to home districts, not Washington, D.C., and accordingly, there is no more sacred vote than those surrounding war where life hangs in the balance.

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"I've become a huge fan of term limits," the former aide said, "because Armey and the others in leadership used to be just like you and your crew in their approach to spending. They have changed over the years."

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Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.

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I think it would be nearly impossible to find someone who has contributed more to South Carolina than Carroll Campbell. His efforts to transform South Carolina's economy and raise our state's income levels are still paying dividends today.

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Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.

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I am one imperfect man saved by God's grace. by Mark Sanford

I am one imperfect man saved by God's grace.

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I do think we ought to be incremental. Are there very troubling charges out there ? Yes. Do they need to be investigated ? Yes. But to jump to conclusion and say( Trump) needs to be impeached, what he's done is treasonous, is to say we're not going to go through the very process that the founding fathers laid out.

I think it strengthens it. What the administration is basically said -- what the President Donald Trump campaign has said is : it was just Bill Weld for a while, it's a voice crying in the wilderness, it's -- pay it no attention. All of a sudden, when you end up with three candidates and three different candidates saying there's something wrong with this presidency, what's going on here is not consistent with the Republican Party that we know about, believe in and invested major portions of our life in, that's a different conversation.

There's a big storm coming. by Mark Sanford

There's a big storm coming.

The President said we're not going to touch the very things that drive debt and spending, so I think that we're walking our way into one heck of a financial storm and there's no discussion.

I did meet Maria Butina, a few interactions were pleasant, it's the girlfriend of a guy I've known for 30 years. She seemed nice enough.

We always have a big crowd at our farm for Thanksgiving, sort of a family-plus event, and so I invited him to come down, he brought his girlfriend.

Without the president having legislators' backs, there's no way they're going to take the risks that would be inherent in a major reform bill.

But I do think The Lead's humbling, one, in this case the President was booed by colleagues in the House who basically said we don't go along with what the President is suggesting, and two, I think that there's a bigger message for all of us to take away from what occurred that goes well beyond the President's comments, well beyond the election of the 1st District, and that is the importance and the value of dissent in our political system.

It's a very tribal environment right now, the playing field of ideas that many of us came into in the class of'94... it's devolved to : are you for or against the President, are you for or against Trump ?