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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.

-Mitt Romney

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I'm Sorry, There Was

Mitt Romney

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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.

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Ending Illegal Immigration Only Strengthens Legal Immigration.

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Admiration And Respect

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America Is The Hope Of The Earth.

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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.

We Need To Have Strong Allies. Our Association And Connection With Our Allies Is Essential To America's Strength. We're The Great Nation That Has Allies, 42 Allies And Friends Around The World.

Washington Is Broken. I Know What It Takes To Get This Country Back, And Will Work With Good Democrats And Good Republicans To Do That.

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.

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

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.

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

I Care About A Hundred Percent Of The American People. I Want A Hundred Percent Of The American People To Have A Bright And Prosperous Future.

Prosperous Future

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.

I Actually Like Jokes As Well As Things That Are Sort Of Fun.

A Nuclear Iran Is A - A Dramatic And - And Devastating Potential Threat To The World And To America. And - And All Our Efforts Should Be Focused On Making That Our First Priority Or Keeping Them From Having That Nuclear Capacity Our First Priority.

I Have To Tell You With Regards To Global Warming That That's Something, Which, You're Right, The Scientists Haven't Entirely Resolved, But No Question About One Thing, It's Getting Warmer, And A Lot Of Good Reasons For Us To Use Less Energy, To Use It More Efficiently And To Develop Sources Here In This Country That Could Allow Us To Be More Independent Of Foreign Sources.

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

I'm A Family Guy. Most Important Thing In My Life By Far Is My Relationship With My Wife And My Sons, Daughters-in-law, And 18 Grandchildren. And For Me, This Is All About Them.

You Know, That's The Very Least That The American Voters Can Expect Is That When You're Running For President That You Outline What You Would Do And What You Would Do Differently From This - From The President Of The United States.

I Will Promote Savings And Investment By Maintaining The 15% Rate On Capital Gains And Dividends. I Will Eliminate The Tax Entirely For Those With Annual Income Below $200,000.

This Feels Good Being Back In Michigan. You Know, The Trees Are The Right Height.

We Must Persuade Iran Not T Have Nuclear Weapons Through Peaceful And Diplomatic Means. We Want A Peaceful Planet.

Conservatives Believe In Providing Constitutional Rights To Our Citizens, Not To Enemy Combatants Like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

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