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And I Hear From Time To Time People Say, Hey, Wait A Second, We Have Civil Liberties We Have To Worry About. But Don't Forget The Most Important Civil Liberty I Expect From My Government Is My Right To Be Kept Alive, And That's What We're Going To Have To Do.

I Think The Minimum Wage Outght To Keep Pace With Inflation. I Think The Minimum Wage Is A Good Thing To Have In Our Country And I Think It Ought To Be Updated.

Corporations Are People, My Friend... Of Course They Are. Everything Corporations Earn Ultimately Goes To People. Where Do You Think It Goes? Whose Pockets? Whose Pockets? People's Pockets. Human Beings, My Friend.

Isn't It Fitting That So Many Of Those Who Have Contempt For The Private Sector Will Soon Find Themselves Back In It?

My Leadership Will End The Obama Era And Begin A New Era Of American Prosperity.

I Want You To Remember When Our White House Reflected The Best Of Who We Are, Not The Worst Of What Europe Has Become.

If Anyone Accuses Me Of Lying, I'll Simply Say I'm Not Lying, Which Is Just An Extension Of The Overall Lying Strategy.

When The President Is Making It Harder To Mine Coal, To Use Coal, To Take Advantage Of Our Gas Resources, To Make It Harder To Get Our Oil Resources - All Those Things Combine To Make Our Cost Of Energy Higher Than It Needs To Be, And It Drives Away Enterprises From This Country. It Sends It To Places That Have Lower-cost Energy.

Our Nation Is Too Different, Too Diverse To Say That What Works In Massachusetts Is Somehow Going To Be Grabbed By The Federal Government, Usurping The Power Of States And Imposing A One-size-fits-all Plan On The Nation. That Will Not Work.

What We Need To Do With Respect To The Middle East Is Strong, Steady Leadership, Not Wrong And Reckless Leadership That Is All Over The Map.

Like Me, The Great Majority Of Americans Wish Both To Preserve The Traditional Definition Of Marriage And To Oppose Bias And Intolerance Directed Towards Gays And Lesbians.

Government Is Taking 40 Percent Of The Gdp. And That's At The State, Local And Federal Level. President Obama Has Taken Government Spending At The Federal Level From 20 Percent To 25 Percent. Look, At Some Point, You Cease Being A Free Economy, And You Become A Government Economy. And We've Got To Stop That.

Certainly, No Church Should Be Involved In Trying To Set The Affairs Of The Nation.

As We Watch The World Today, Sometimes It Seems That We`re At The Mercy Of Events Instead Of Shaping Events. And A Strong America`s Essential To Shape Events, And A Strong America, By The Way, Depends On A Strong Military.

The Kids Of Those That Came Here Illegally, Those Kids, I Think, Should Have A Pathway To Become A Permanent Resident Of The United States And Military Service, For Instance, Is One Way They Would Have That Kind Of Pathway To Become A Permanent Resident.

Pakistan Is A Nation, Which, If It Falls Apart, If It Becomes A Failed State, There Are Nuclear Weapons There And You've Got Terrorists There Who Could Grab Their Hands Onto Those Nuclear Weapons.

I Believe That Assad Must Go. I Believe He Will Go. But I Believe - We Want To Make Sure That America Has The Relationships Of Friendship With The People That Take His Place, Steps That In The Years To Come We See Syria As A Friend, And Syria As A Responsible Party In The Middle East.

Frankly, I Was Born With A Silver Spoon.

I'll Also Make Sure That America Has Trade Relations With China That Work For Us. I've Watched Year In And Year Out As Companies Have Shut Down And People Have Lost Their Jobs Because China Has Not Played By The Same Rules, In Part By Holding Down Artificially The Value Of Their Currency. It Holds Down The Prices Of Their Goods. It Means Our Goods Aren't As Competitive And We Lose Jobs. That's Got To End.

Iran's Nuclearization Is The Greatest Single National Security Threat America Faces.

If People Are Looking For Someone Who Has Never Changed Their Mind And Is Unwilling To Admit They Make Mistakes, That's Not Me.

If You Want A President Who Will Make Things Better In The African-american Community, You Are Looking At Him.

African American

I Want To Invest In Research. Research Is Great. Providing Funding To Universities And Think Tanks Is Great. But Investing In Companies? Absolutely Not.

The America We All Know Has Been A Story Of The Many Becoming One, Uniting To Preserve Liberty, Uniting To Build The Greatest Economy In The World, Uniting To Save The World From Unspeakable Darkness.

Third, We Will Make Trade Work For America By Forging New Trade Agreements. And When Nations Cheat In Trade, There Will Be Unmistakable Consequences.

President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, And Their Team Have Failed The American People, And That Is Why Their Majority Will Soon Be Out The Door.

The President May Be A Nice Guy, But He's Just Over His Head.

I'll Take A Lot Of Credit For The Fact That This Industry's Come Back.

I Don't Want To Be Creating New Foreign Policy For - For My Country Or In Any Way To Distance Myself In The Foreign Policy Of - Of Our Nation, But We Respect The Right Of A Nation To Defend Itself.

We Use Ann Sparingly Right Now So That People Don't Get Tired Of Her.

Religious Liberty Is The First Freedom In Our Constitution. And Whether The Cause Is Justice For The Persecuted, Compassion For The Needy And The Sick, Or Mercy For The Child Waiting To Be Born, There Is No Greater Force For Good In The Nation Than Christian Conscience In Action.

When There Are Elections, People Tend To Vote For Peace. They Don't Vote For War. So Americans Want To Promote Those Principles Around The World.

China Can Be Our Partner, But That Doesn't Mean They Can Just Roll All Over Us And Steal Our Jobs On An Unfair Basis.

President Obama Orders Religious Organizations To Violate Their Conscience. I Will Defend Religious Liberty And Overturn Regulations That Trample On Our First Freedom.

I Love America. I'm Concerned About America And I Believe The Heart And Soul Of Conservatives And Republicans Recognize That The Principles That Donald Trump Is Talking About Have Nothing To Do With Conservatism, Nothing To Do With Keeping America Strong.

If We Want To Get Rid Of Obamacare, We're Going To Have To Replace President Obama.

President Obama

Giving Tuition Breaks To The Children Of Illegal Immigrants Needs To Stop.

President Obama Wants To Put Free Enterprise On Trial.

George Herbert Walker Bush. He Was A Pretty-pretty Great President And Anything But.

Great Presidents

Moral Certainty, Clear Standards, And A Commitment To Spiritual Ideals Will Set You Apart In A World That Searches For Meaning.

I've Met Graduating College Kids Facing Loan Payments And A Bad Economy, And They Are Worried That They Won't Be Able To Get A Job. This Is Not The Way America Needs To Be.

I Don't Want To Transform America. I Want To Restore To America The Economic Values Of Freedom And Opportunity And Limited Government That Has Made Us The Powerhouse Of The World.

I Don't See How A Young American Can Vote For, Well, Can Vote For A Democrat.

I Have Some Friends Who Are Nascar Team Owners.

I Will Insist On A Military So Powerful No One Would Ever Think Of Challenging It.

I Stand Ready To Lead Us Down A Different Path Where We're Lifted Up By Our Desire To Succeed, Not Dragged Down By A Resentment Of Success.

I've Got A Lot Of Good Friends - The Owner Of The Miami Dolphins And The New York Jets - Both Owners Are Friends Of Mine.

I Want Our Legal System To Work Better. I Want It To Be Streamlined, I Want It To Be Clearer. I Don’t Think You Have To — Shouldn’t Have To Hire A Lawyer To Figure Out How To Get Into This Country Legally.

Democrats Want To Use The Slowdown As An Excuse To Do What Their Special Interests Are Always Begging For: Higher Taxes, Bigger Government And Less Trade With Other Nations.

I Can't Possibly Predict Precisely What The Unemployment Rate Will Be At The End Of One Year. I Can Tell You That Over A Period Of Four Years, By Virtue Of The Policies That We'd Put In Place, We'd Get The Unemployment Rate Down To 6%, And Perhaps A Little Lower.

Government Does Not Create Jobs. Government Does Not Create Jobs.

It's Essential For A President To Show Strength From The Very Beginning, To Make It Very Clear What Is Acceptable And Not Acceptable.

When We Have Had In The Past Programs That Have Said That The People Who Come Here Illegally Are Going To Get To Stay Illegally For The Rest Of Their Life, That's Going To Only Encourage More People To Come Here Illegally.

I Frankly Can't Wait, Because The Idea Of Bill Clinton Back In The White House With Nothing To Do Is Something I Just Can't Imagine, I Can't Imagine The American People Can Imagine.

America's Military Is Second To None In The World. We're Blessed With Terrific Soldiers, And Extraordinary Technology And Intelligence. But The Idea Of A Trillion Dollars In Cuts Through Sequestration And Budget Cuts To The Military Would Change That.

Our Economy Is On The Move And We Are Creating Thousands Of New Jobs, But We Need To Keep Our Foot On The Gas Pedal.

A Person Should Not Be Elected Because Of His Faith Nor Should He Be Rejected Because Of His Faith.

Illegal Immigrants Should Be Required To Return To Their Home Country.

It Seems That The First Victim Of An Obama Campaign Is The Truth. It Seems That The First Victim Of An Obama Campaign Is The Truth.

What We Have, What We Wish We Had - Ambitions Fulfilled, Ambitions Disappointed, Investments Won, Investments Lost, Elections Won, Elections Lost - These Things May Occupy Our Attention, But They Do Not Define Us.

America Can Compete With Anyone In The World As Long As The Playing Field Is Level. China's Been Cheating Over The Years. One By Holding Down The Value Of Their Currency. Number Two, By Stealing Our Intellectual Property; Our Designs, Our Patents, Our Technology. We Will Have To Have People Play On A Fair Basis.

As A Matter Of Fact, Latin America's Economy Is Almost As Big As The Economy Of China. We're All Focused On China. Latin America Is A Huge Opportunity For America - Time Zone, Language Opportunities.

I'm A Big Believer In Getting Money From Where The Money Is, And The Money Is In Washington. I Learned From Running The Olympics That You Can Get Money There To Help Build Economic Opportunities. We Actually Got Over $410 Million From The Federal Government; That Is A Huge Increase Over Anything Ever Done Before. We Did That By Going After Every Agency Of Government. That Kind Of Creativity I Want To Bring To Everything We Do (in Massachusetts).

As A Result Of Our [my Campaign's] Discussions And Other Interactions With Gay And Lesbian Voters Across The State, I Am More Convinced Than Ever That As We Seek To Establish Full Equality For America's Gay And Lesbian Citizens, I Will Provide More Effective Leadership Than My Opponent [ted Kennedy].

There Is No Day More Joyful In My Life Than When I See All My Family Around Me. That's The Best It Gets.

When It Comes To Our Foreign Policy, Mitt Romney Seems To Want To Import The Foreign Policies Of The 1980s, Just Like The Social Policies Of The 1950s And The Economic Policies Of The 1920s.

This Is A Global Effort We're Going To Have To Lead To Overcome This Jihadist Effort. It's More Than Osama Bin Laden. But He Is Going To Pay, And He Will Die.

The Middle Income Families In America Have Been Crushed Over The Last Four Years.

I Believe That Since Roe V. Wade Has Been The Law For 20 Years We Should Sustain And Support It.

England [sic] Is Just A Small Island. Its Roads And Houses Are Small. With Few Exceptions, It Doesn't Make Things That People In The Rest Of The World Want To Buy. And If It Hadn't Been Separated From The Continent By Water, It Almost Certainly Would Have Been Lost To Hitler's Ambitions.

The Right Way To Reign In Healthcare Costs Is Not By Applying More Government And More Controls And Making It More Like The Post Office, It's By Making It More Like A Consumer-driven Market.

The Words Spoken By The Leader Of The Free World Can Expand The Frontiers Of Freedom Or Shrink Them. When Ronald Reagan Called On Gorbachev To 'tear Down This Wall,' A Surge Of Confidence Rose That Would Ultimately Breach The Bounds Of The Evil Empire.

It's Not Worth Moving Heaven And Earth, Spending Billions Of Dollars Just Trying To Catch One Person.

Actually, I Didn't Say That.

With The Arab Spring, Came A Great Deal Of Hope That There Would Be A Change Towards More Moderation, And Opportunity For Greater Participation On The Part Of Women In Public Life, And In Economic Life In The Middle East. But Instead, We've Seen In Nation After Nation, A Number Of Disturbing Events.

Bottom Line Is President Obama Has Said That It Is A Top Priority Of The United States Of America To Ensure That Iran Never Achieves A Nuclear.

The Teachers Unions Are The Clearest Example Of A Group That Has Lost Its Way. Whenever Anyone Dares To Offer A New Idea, The Unions Protest The Loudest. Their Attitude Was Memorably Expressed By A Longtime President Of The American Federation Of Teachers: He Said, Quote, 'when School Children Start Paying Union Dues, That's When I'll Start Representing The Interests Of Children.'

It's Time For The Party Of Big Ideas, Not The Party Of Big Brother!

This Is Something The Democrats Have Talked About, And A Goal We Share, Getting Everyone Insured, And Solving The Issue In A Republican Way, Which Is Applying A Personal Responsibility Principle (individual Mandate), Reforming The Market (more Strictly Regulating The Insurance Companies), And Allowing People To Buy Private Health Care Insurance That They Can Take With Them From Job To Job That's Entirely Affordable. So It's A Republican Way Of Solving A Problem That We Face As A Nation.

My Dad, As You Probably Know, Was The Governor Of Michigan And Was The Head Of A Car Company. But He Was Born In Mexico... And Had He Been Born Of, Uh, Mexican Parents, I'd Have A Better Shot At Winning This. But He Was Unfortunately Born To Americans Living In Mexico. He Lived There For A Number Of Years. I Mean, I Say That Jokingly, But It Would Be Helpful To Be Latino.

Freedom. Freedom Of Religion. Freedom To Speak Their Mind. Freedom To Build A Life. And Yes, Freedom To Build A Business. With Their Own Hands. This Is The Essence Of The American Experience.

The Embassy In Cairo Put Out A Statement After Their Grounds Had Been Breached. ... An Apology For America's Values Is Never The Right Course. ... The Statement That Came From The Administration Was - Was A Statement Which Is Akin To Apology And I Think Was A - A Severe Miscalculation.

Business And Growing Jobs Is About Taking Risk, Sometimes Failing, Sometimes Succeeding, But Always Striving. It Is About Dreams. Usually, It Doesn't Work Out Exactly As You Might Have Imagined. Steve Jobs Was Fired At Apple. He Came Back And Changed The World.

We Are A Nation Of Immigrants. We Are The Children And Grandchildren And Great-grandchildren Of The Ones Who Wanted A Better Life, The Driven Ones, The Ones Who Woke Up At Night Hearing That Voice Telling Them That Life In That Place Called America Could Be Better.

This Is A Nation Of Immigrants. We Welcome People Coming To This Country As Immigrants. My Dad Was Born In Mexico Of American Parents; Ann's Dad Was Born In Wales And Is A First-generation American. We Welcome Legal Immigrants Into This Country.

You Look At That Democratic Debate. I Had To Laugh At What I Saw Barack Obama Do. I Mean, In One Week, He Went From Saying He Is Going To Sit Down For Tea With Our Enemies, But Then He's Going To Bomb Our Allies. I Mean, He's Gone From Jane Fonda To Dr. Strangelove In One Week.

If I'm President Of The United States, When I'm President Of The United States, We Will Stand With Israel.

You Had Your Turn Madam, Let Me Have Mine ... Let Me Complete. I'm Sorry, It's My Turn.

I'm Mitt Romney-and Yes Wolf, That's Also My First Name.

There Are A Lot Of Reasons Not To Elect Me...

I See An America Where Poverty Is Defeated By Opportunity, Not Enabled By A Government Check.

I Absolutely Believe That America Has A Responsibility, And The Privilege Of Helping Defend Freedom And Promote The Principles That Make The World More Peaceful. And Those Principles Include Human Rights, Human Dignity, Free Enterprise, Freedom Of Expression, Elections.

I Don't Mind That People Have Questions And Would Look For Someone To Respond To Their Questions, Particularly If Their Faith Is Not Terribly Well-known.

I Believe The Tax On Capital Gains Should Be Zero.

I Spent My Whole Life In The Private Sector, 25 Years In The Private Sector. I Understand That When Government Takes More Money Out Of The Hands Of People, It Makes It More Difficult For Them To Buy Things. If They Can't Buy Things, The Economy Doesn't Grow. If The Economy Doesn't Grow, We Don't Put Americans To Work.

The Right Way To Proceed When We Face The Kind Of Challenges We Face Is To Pursue The Strategy Which Ronald Reagan Pursued When We Faced The Challenges Of The Last Century.

Ronald Reagan Was One Of Our Great Foreign Policy Presidents. He Did Not Come From The Senate. He Did Not Come From The Foreign Policy World. He Was A Governor, But His Resolve, His Clarity Of Purpose, His Intelligence, His Capacity To Deal With Complex Issues And Solve Tough Problems Served Him Extremely Well, And If I Were Elected President, I Hope I Could Rely Upon Those Same Qualities.

Clarity Of Purpose

I'm Not Going To Say To Putin That He'll Get More Flexibility After The Election. After The Election He'll Get More Backbone.

What Does It Say About A President's Policies When He Has To Use A Cartoon Character Rather Than Real People To Justify His Record?

A Leader Has The Capacity Of Vision, The Ability To See Where Things Are Headed Before People In General See Those Things.

Deadly Assault Weapons Have No Place In Massachusetts.

Assault Weapons

When You Raise Taxes On Small Business, From 35% To 40%, You Will Kill Jobs.

And A Special Thank You To The Citizens Of Massachusetts: You Are Paying All The Taxes, Creating All The Jobs, Raising All The Children. This Government Is Yours. Thank You For Letting Me Serve You. I Love This Job.

Flexibility. Oh, That's Pretty Clearly Saying That What Donald Trump Said To The New York Times Is Very Different Than What He's Saying To The American People. He Is Not The Real Deal. He Is A Phony.

We Have A Potentially Volatile Situation But We Sort Of Live With It, And We Kick The Ball Down The Field And Hope That Ultimately, Somehow, Something Will Happen And Resolve It.

Attaching The Word Marriage To The Association Of Same-sex Individuals Mistakenly Presumes That Marriage Is Principally A Matter Of Adult Benefits And Adult Rights. In Fact, Marriage Is Principally About The Nurturing And Development Of Children. And The Successful Development Of Children Is Critical To The Preservation And Success Of Our Nation.

All The Laws And Legislation In The World Will Never Heal This World Like The Loving Hearts And Arms Of Mothers And Fathers. If Every Child Could Drift To Sleep Feeling Wrapped In The Love Of Their Family - And God's Love - This World Would Be A Far More Gentle And Better Place.

By Making Bold Cuts In Spending And Commonsense Entitlement Reforms, We Will Make Our Government Simpler, Smaller, And Smarter.

I Was A Severely Conservative Republican Governor.

What America Needs Is Jobs. Lots Of Jobs.

President Obama Instituted The Most Anti-growth, Anti-investment, Anti-jobs Measures That We Have Seen In Our Lifetime. Now He Called His Agenda Ambitious, I Call It Reckless.

So, For Instance, Let Me Make This Clear: You Know I Signed A Statement. I Will Not Raise Taxes On Anybody. I Don't Want To Raise Taxes On The American People.

Donald Trump Is A Phony, A Fraud.his Promises Are As Worthless As A Degree From Trump University.

He's A Wealthy Man, A Very Wealthy Man. If You Have A Half A Million-dollar Purchase From Tiffany's, You're Not A Middle-class American.

I Get Speaker's Fees From Time To Time, But Not Very Much.

This Is All About Creating Good Jobs For Middle-income Americans, And It's A Place Where The President, Frankly, Has Failed. His Effort To Put In Place A Series Of Liberal Proposals He Thought Were Historic Kept His Eye Off The Ball Of Getting The Economy Going Again. It Is The Economy, And The American People Aren't Stupid. They Want Someone Who Can Get This Economy Going Again.

I'm Not Going To Just Take Office In January, I'm Going To Take Responsibility.

You Know, Out-of-touch Liberals Like Barack Obama Say They Want A Strong Economy, But In Everything They Do, They Show They Don't Like Business Very Much. But The Economy, Of Course, Is Simply The Product Of All The Businesses Of The Nation Added Together. So It's A Bit Like Saying You Like An Omelet, But You Don't Like Eggs.

My Mom And Dad Gave Their Kids The Greatest Gift Of All - The Gift Of Unconditional Love. They Cared Deeply About Who We Would Be, And Much Less About What We Would Do.

These American Values, This Great Moral Heritage, Is Shared And Lived In My Religion As It Is In Yours. I Was Taught In My Home To Honor God And Love My Neighbor. I Saw My Father March With Martin Luther King.

That Business We Started With 10 People Has Now Grown Into A Great American Success Story.

I Would Cap The Amount Of Federal Government Can Spend At 20 Percent Of The Economy. Bring It Back To 20 Percent Or Lower. And Say, We Are Not Going To Spend Above That Level. Democrats, They Want To Raise Your Taxes And Spend More And More And Turn Us Into An Economy Which Is No Longer Driven By The Private Sector.

Donald Trump Trying To Do To The American Voter What He Did To The People That Signed Up For This Course: He's Making Promises He Has No Intention Of Keeping.

Don't Try To Stop The Foreclosure Process. Let It Run Its Course And Hit The Bottom.

Christianity Is Not The Faith Of The Complacent, The Comfortable Or Of The Timid. It Demands And Creates Heroic Souls Like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul The Second, And Billy Graham. Each Showed, In Their Own Way, The Relentless And Powerful Influence Of The Message Of Jesus Christ.

[on L. Ron Hubbard] I'm Not In Favor Of His Religion By Any Means. But He Wrote A Book Called 'battlefield Earth' That Was A Very Fun Science-fiction Book.

That Business We Started With 10 People Has Now Grown Into A Great American Success Story. Some Of The Companies We Helped Start Are Names You Know. An Office Supply Company Called Staples – Where I’m Pleased To See The Obama Campaign Has Been Shopping; The Sports Authority, Which Became A Favorite Of My Sons. We Started An Early Childhood Learning Center Called Bright Horizons That First Lady Michelle Obama Rightly Praised. At A Time When Nobody Thought We’d Ever See A New Steel Mill Built In America, We Took A Chance And Built One In A Corn Field In Indiana.

I'm Not In Favor Of Privatizing Social Security Or Making Cuts.

I Think We Can All Agree This Is A Very Important Election [2016]. We Don't Want To See Hillary Clinton Become The President Of The United States.

I Think Folks Need To Understand The Whole Background Of Donald Trump. I Find From Time To Time, I Talk To People About The Campaign And They Say, Gosh, I Didn't Know That Donald Trump Gave A Bunch Of Money To Jimmy Carter And To Hillary Clinton And To Harry Reid And To John Kerry.

If You Bring [tax] Rates Down, It Makes It Easier For Small Business To Keep More Of Their Capital And Hire People. And For Me, This Is About Jobs. I Want To Get America's Economy Going Again. Fifty-four Percent Of America's Workers Work In Businesses That Are Taxed As Individuals. So When You Bring Those Rates Down, Those Small Businesses Are Able To Keep More Money And Hire More People.

I Didn't Talk To Anybody And Say, "i'm Going To Do A Speech, Do You Go Some Ideas?" This Is Something I Did On My Own Because I Care Very Deeply About The Country.

When You Look At "obamacare," The Congressional Budget Office Has Said It Will Cost $2,500 A Year More Than Traditional Insurance. So It's Adding To Cost. And As A Matter Of Fact, When The President Ran For Office, He Said That By This Year He Would Have Brought Down The Cost Of Insurance For Each Family By $2,500 A Family. Instead, It's Gone Up By That Amount. So It's Expensive. Expensive Things Hurt Families. So That's One Reason I Don't Want It.

Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.

Conservative Values

What's Up, Gangstas? It's The M-i-double-tizzle.

The Greatest Threat That The World Faces, The Greatest National Security Threat Is A Nuclear Iran.

I'm A Normal Person. I Have Emotions.

I Like Being Able To Fire People.

Washington Has To Become An Ally Of Business, Not The Opposition Of Business.

I Believe That Fema Plays A Key Role In Working With States And Localities To Prepare For And Respond To Natural Disasters. As President, I Will Ensure Fema Has The Funding It Needs To Fulfill Its Mission.

I Like Those Fancy Raincoats You Bought. Really Sprung For The Big Bucks.

I Would Explain To My Children Very Simply That The Defense Of Liberty Is A Cause That Exacts A Very High Price In The History Of Humankind.

I Know What It's Like To Start A Business. I Know How Extra Ordinarily Difficult It Is To Build Something From Nothing. I Know How Government Kills Jobs And, Yes, I Know How It Can Help From Time- To-time.

Tomorrow We Begin A New Tomorrow.

I Will Begin My Presidency With A Jobs Tour. President Obama Began With An Apology Tour. America, He Said, Had Dictated To Other Nations. No Mr. President, America Has Freed Other Nations From Dictators.

I Do Not Favor Same-sex Marriage. I Oppose Same-sex Marriage, And That Has Been My View. But, But If People Are Looking For Someone Who Will Discriminate Against Gays Or Will In Any Way Try And Suggest That People That Have Different Sexual Orientation Don't Have Full Rights In This Country, They Won't Find That In Me.

I Want To Help Small Businesses Grow And Thrive. I Know How To Make That Happen. I Spent My Life In The Private Sector. I Know Why Jobs Come And Why They Go.

In Order To Become A Success, A Business Doesn't Just Have To Do Well, It Has To To Better Than Its Competitors. Being Number One Isn't Just About Bragging Rights. Often It Means The Difference Between Prospering And Merely Hanging On.

I'd Like To Be The Next President Of The United States To Support And Help This Great Nation And To Make Sure That We All Together Remain America As The Hope Of The Earth.

And Fifth, We Will Champion Small Businesses, America's Engine Of Job Growth. That Means Reducing Taxes On Business, Not Raising Them. It Means Simplifying And Modernizing The Regulations That Hurt Small Business The Most. And It Means That We Must Rein In The Skyrocketing Cost Of Healthcare By Repealing And Replacing Obamacare.

Yeah, Handsome, Great Big Guy, Seven Feet Tall! Name Is Rick Miller - Portland, Oregon. And He Started A Business. Of Course You Know It Was In Basketball. But It Wasn't In Basketball! I Mean, I Figured He Had To Be In Sport, But He Wasn't In Sport.

On One Of The Most Personal Matters Of Our Lives, Our Health Care, President Obama Would Turn Decision Making Over To Government Bureaucrats. He Forced Through Obama-care And I Will Repeal It.

I Think Mitt Romney Has Demonstrated Repeatedly He Has A Penchant For - For Secrecy, Doesn't Seem To Have Any Interest In Actually Showing The American People His - His Finances, Decision - Important Decisions About His Investments, Refuses To Come Clean On His Time At Bain Capital And When He Was Really There, And, You Know, Be Held Accountable For The Outsourcing Of Jobs And The Off-shoring Of Jobs And Shipping Jobs Overseas.

The American People I Talk To Don't Spend Every Moment Thinking, 'how Can I Tax My Neighbor More Than They're Being Taxed?' They Say, 'how Can I Get A Good Job? How Can My Kids Get Good Jobs? How Can Seniors Have A Confidence In Their Future When They Know That Social Security, Medicare And Medicaid Are Bankrupt?'

Christianity Is Not The Faith Of The Complacent, The Comfortable Or Of The Timid. It Demands And Creates Heroic Souls.

If We Become One Of Those Societies That Attack Success, Why Not Come As Certain There Will Be A Lot Less Success? And That's Not Who We Are.

The Invisible Hand Of The Market Always Moves Faster And Better Than The Heavy Hand Of Government.

There Are A Few Things That Were Disconcerting: The Stories About The Private Security Firm Not Having Enough People, Supposed Strike Of The Immigration And Customs Officials. That, Obviously, Is Not Something Which Is Encouraging.

Announcing A Withdrawal Date, That Was Wrong. The Taliban May Not Have Watches, But They Do Have Calendars.

I Don't Like Vampires Personally. I Don't Know Any.

No Mandatory Prison Term For Employers Who Hire Illegals.

Republicans Spent Too Much Money, Borrowed Too Much Money, Earmarked Too Much. In This Race, I'm The Only Guy Who Hasn't Spent Time In Washington.

Our Veterans Know The Meaning Of Service Better Than Anyone Else And They Aren't About To Quit Working When They Come Home. The Best Reward We Can Provide Our Vets For Their Service Isn't A Medal Or A Check; It's A Livelihood And A Means Of Supporting Themselves And Their Families.

I Like The Fact That Most Of The Cars I See Are Detroit-made Automobiles. I Drive A Mustang And A Chevy Pickup Truck. Ann Drives A Couple Of Cadillacs, Actually.

People Are Taking A Closer Look At Donald Trump. I Think The Best Look They Got Was At The Last Debate. I Think Ted Cruz And Marco Rubio Prosecuted Their Case Effectively. Donald Doesn't Have Some Great Answers. When They Talk, For Instance, About Immigration And Releasing Those Tapes From The New York Times, We Began Talking About Flexibility And Immigration.

There Are 47 Percent Of The People Who Will Vote For The President No Matter What.

But In The Business I Had, We Invested In Over 100 Different Businesses And Net-net, Taking Out The Ones Where We Lost Jobs And Those That We Added, Those Businesses Have Now Added Over 100,000 Jobs.

I've Been As Consistent As Human Beings Can Be.

America Cannot Continue To Lead The Family Of Nations Around The World If We Suffer The Collapse Of The Family Here At Home.

Securing The Border Is Priority Number One.

Whatever Happened To Trump Airlines? How About Trump University? And Then There's Trump Magazine And Trump Vodka And Trump Steaks, And Trump Mortgage? A Business Genius He [donald Trump] Is Not.

I Support The Work Of The Nra, But Disagree Sometimes.

As President, I Will Create 12 Million New Jobs.

I Think That We Should Give Visas To People - Green Cards, Rather, To People Who Graduate With Skills That We Need. People Around The World With Accredited Degrees In Science And Math Get A Green Card Stapled To Their Diploma, Come To The U.s. Of A. We Should Make Sure Our Legal System Works.

America Needs A President Who Can Fix The Economy Because He Understands The Economy, And I Do And I Will.

The United States Needs To Be Made More Appealing To Legal Immigrants.

We're All A Nation That Believes We're Children Of The Same God.

We In America Can Compete Successfully With Anyone In The World, And We're Going To.

Like Other Presidents Before Him, Barack Obama Inherited A Recession. But Unlike Them, He Has Made It Worse, Not Better.

I'm Sorry, There Was An Effort On The Part Of The President To Have A Status Of Forces Agreement, And I Concurred In That, And Said That We Should Have Some Number Of Troops That Stayed On. That Was Something I Concurred With.

My View Is That We Don't Know What's Causing Climate Change On This Planet. And The Idea Of Spending Trillions And Trillions Of Dollars To Try To Reduce Co2 Emissions Is Not The Right Course For Us.

In Order To Change The Direction Of This Country, We Need To Change Presidents. Americans Need A Conservative Businessman To Get This Economy Moving Again, Not Career Politicians. That Is Why I Am Running. Next Week, I Will Lay Out My Specific Plan To Put America Back To Work.

In France, For Instance, I'm Told That Marriage Is Now Frequently Contracted In Seven-year Terms Where Either Party May Move On When Their Term Is Up. How Shallow And How Different From The Europe Of The Past.

You Don't Have To Be Larger Than Life To Be A Hero, Just Larger Than Yourself.

Larger Than Life

Obamacare (modeled Almost Precisely On Romneycare) Is Wrong; It Was Bad Medicine; It's Bad For The Economy, And I Will Repeal It.

Palestinians Have No Interest Whatsoever In Establishing Peace And That The Pathway To Peace Is Almost Unthinkable To Accomplish.

It's So Critical That We Make America Once Again The Most Attractive Place In The World To Start Businesses, To Build Jobs, To Grow The Economy. And That's Not Going To Happen By Just Hiring Teachers.

No One's Ever Asked To See My Birth Certificate, They Know That This Is The Place That We Were Born And Raised.

Rick, I’ll Tell You What - Ten Thousand Bucks? Ten Thousand Dollar Bet?

First, By 2020, North America Will Be Energy Independent By Taking Full Advantage Of Our Oil And Coal And Gas And Nuclear And Renewables.

There's No Question Raising The Minimum Wage Excessively Causes A Loss Of Jobs.

We Should Have Communicated To Iran That We Are Prepared, That We Are Considering Military Options. They're Not Just On The Table, They Are In Our Hands.

This Country Already Has A Leader Who Divides Us With The Bitter Politics Of Envy. We Have To Offer An Alternative Vision.

I Will Get America Working Again And See Rising Take-home Pay Again.

The Words Spoken By The Leader Of The Free World Can Expand The Frontiers Of Freedom Or Shrink Them.

Growing Our Economy Means Allowing Individuals, And Particularly Those In The Middle Class, To Be Able To Keep More Of Their Money. It Also Means That People In The Middle Class And Modest Incomes To Be Able To Pay For Their Retirement, To Get A Down Payment For A Home, To Send A Child To College.

I Respect The Right Of Israel To Defend Itself, And - And We Stand With - With Israel. We're A - A Nation - Two Nations That Come Together In - In Peace And That Want To See Iran Being Dissuaded From Its Nuclear Folly.

Syria Is Iran's Only Ally In The Arab World. It's Their Route To The Sea.

It Is Time To Acknowledge The Extraordinary Sacrifice Of All Of Our Veterans. While Many Massachusetts Soldiers Served Our Nation In A Period Technically Dubbed 'peacetime,' They Restored American Pride In The Wake Of Vietnam And Helped Bring A Successful End To The Cold War. The Service Of These Men And Women Was Not Without Cost. There Are Countless Stories Of Soldiers Who Served With Great Distinction Only To Be Denied Veteran Status After Returning Home. Every Man And Woman Who Volunteered To Serve This Country Should Be Treated With The Same Degree Of Respect, Gratitude And Dignity.

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