"Husbands rarely beat up their wives. Single women get beaten up more."
Under the Hate Crimes bill, "any pastor, preacher, priest, rabbi or imam who gives a sermon out of their moral traditions about sexual practices could be found guilty of a federal crime."
A loophole "still exists which allows members of Congress and high-powered executive branch appointees to exploit 'insider' knowledge of the financial industry in order to turn personal profit."
Only 15 percent of drug users are African-American, yet 74 percent of all drug offenders sentenced to prison are black
"Four percent of American citizens are black males, but they are 35 percent of murder victims."
The federal Hate Crimes Prevention Act bill would create "special protection for pedophiles."
"Barack Obama has consistently voted against tougher penalties for criminals."
"Joe Biden brought Republicans and Democrats together to pass the 1994 crime bill, putting 100,000 cops on the streets and starting an eight-year drop in crime across the country."
"Joe Biden wrote the Violence Against Women Act ... the rate of domestic violence went down dramatically."
Romney refused to pardon "a decorated soldier" returning from Iraq who had been charged with a crime involving a BB gun when he was 13.
Huckabee "granted 1,033 pardons and commutations . . . more clemencies than the previous three governors combined."
"The truth of the matter is that during my administration, the FBI's crime statistics show that violent crime was reduced in Massachusetts by 7 percent."
"Murder went up" when Romney was governor. "Robbery went up. Violent crimes went up."
"In the 1990s, the Biden Crime Bill added 100,000 cops to America's streets. As a result, murder and violent crime rates went down eight years in a row."
"Here's a man who brags about how he made the city safe. It was the Biden crime bill that became the Clinton crime bill that allowed him to do that."
"Fifty-six percent decline in overall crime. A 73 percent decline in motor-vehicle theft. A 67 percent decline in robbery. A 66 percent decline in murder. This is way beyond what happened in the nation during this period of time.
"I brought down crime more than anyone in this country -- maybe in the history of this country -- while I was mayor of New York City." -
"The crime decline in the United States would be fairly small if it wasn't for the crime decline in New York City."
"In 1972, we had a 179,000 human beings in jail in this country. Today, it's 2.3-million, and 70 percent of them are black, African-American."
"... study after study has shown that the death penalty deters murders."
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