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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.

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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.

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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.

Barack Obama Is Facing A Financial Emergency On A Grander Scale. Yet His Approach Has Been To Engage In One Of The Biggest Peacetime Spending Binges In American History.

American History

Dependency Is Death To Initiative, To Risk-taking And Opportunity. It's Time To Stop The Spread Of Government Dependency And Fight It Like The Poison It Is.

I Like American Cars. And I Would Do Nothing To Hurt The U.s. Auto Industry.

I Disagree With The Supreme Court's Decision And I Agree With The Dissent. What The Court Did Not Do On Its Last Day In Session, I Will Do On My First Day If Elected President Of The United States, And That Is I Will Act To Repeal Obamacare.

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

The Soles Of Neil Armstrong's Boots On The Moon Made Permanent Impressions On Our Souls And In Our National Psyche. Ann And I Watched Those Steps Together On Her Parent's Sofa. Like All Americans We Went To Bed That Night Knowing We Lived In The Greatest Country In The History Of The World. God Bless Neil Armstrong.

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.

Our Worldly Successes Cannot Be Guaranteed, But Our Ability To Achieve Spiritual Success Is Entirely Up To Us, Thanks To The Grace Of God. The Best Advice I Know Is To Give Is To Give Those Worldly Things Your Best But Never Your All - Reserve The Ultimate Hope For The Only One Who Can Grant It.

I Wish President Obama Had Succeeded Because I Want America To Succeed. But His Promises Gave Way To Disappointment And Division. This Isn't Something We Have To Accept. Now Is The Moment When We Can Do Something. With Your Help We Will Do Something.

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

Julia Progresses From Cradle To Grave, Showing How Government Makes Every Good Thing In Her Life Possible. The Weak Economy, High Unemployment, Falling Wages, Rising Gas Prices, The National Debt, The Insolvency Of Entitlements - All These Are Fictionally Assumed Away In A Cartoon That Is Produced By A President Who Wants Us To Forget About Them.

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.

Peta Is Not Happy That My Dog Likes Fresh Air.

America Has Not Dictated To Other Nations. We Have Freed Other Nations From Dictators.

I Try And Make It To The Word Exactly What I Said Four Years Ago And What I Said Was That Those Who've Come Here Illegally Should Not Be Given A Special Pathway, A Favored Pathway To Become Permanent Residents Merely By Virtue Of Having Come Here Illegally. That They Should Be In Line With Everybody - They Should Be Given The Opportunity To Get In Line With Everybody Else But They Go To The Back Of The Line.

There Were A Couple Of Times I Wondered Whether I Was Going To Get A Pink Slip.

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'm Not Familiar Precisely With What I Said, But I'll Stand By What I Said, Whatever It Was.

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.

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

There Are Some Who Would Have A Presidential Candidate Describe And Explain His Church's Distinctive Doctrines. To Do So Would Enable The Very Religious Test The Founders Prohibited In The Constitution. No Candidate Should Become The Spokesman For His Faith. For If He Becomes President He Will Need The Prayers Of The People Of All Faiths.

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

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.

Reforming The Way The State Works With Businesses And Providing Incentives For Employers Will Help Preserve And Create New Jobs In Massachusetts.

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

We Have Weakened Our Economy In America. We Need A Strong Economy.

We Have Made Progress From Where We Were When President Obama Took Office, When The Economy - Our Economy Had Just Contracted Almost By Nine Percent.

It's Not Government That Makes Business Successful. It's Not Government Investments That Makes Businesses Grow And Hire People.

I Was In The World Of Business For 25 Years. If You Didn't Balance Your Budget, You Went Out Of Business.

Those Who Have Come To The United States Illegally Should Not Be Given Amnesty Or An Easier Path To Citizenship Over Those Already In Line.

We Have An Opportunity To Have Real Leadership. America's Going To Have That Kind Of Leadership And Continue To Promote Principles Of Peace To Make A World A Safer Place And Make People In This Country More Confident That Their Future Is Secure.

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.

Mr. President, You’re Entitled As A President To Your Own Airplane, And To Your Own House, But Not To Your Own Facts.

Ronald Reagan Was A President Of Strength. His Philosophy Was A Philosophy Of Strength - A Strong Military, A Strong Economy And Strong Families.

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.

The 'blind Trust' Is An Age-old Ruse. You Give A Blind Trust Rules. You Can Say To A Blind Trust, Don't Invest In Properties Which Would Be In Conflict Of Interest Or Where The Seller Might Think They're Going To Take Advantage From Me.

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.

If I Am Elected President, The Castro Regime Will Have No Reason To Doubt Our Unwavering Commitment To Your Cause. The Regime Will Feel The Full Weight Of American Resolve.

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

Central To America's Rise To Global Leadership Is Our Judeo-christian Tradition With The Vision Of The Goodness And Possibilities Of Every Human Life.

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

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

Perhaps Religious Conscience Upsets The Designs Of Those Who Feel That The Highest Wisdom And Authority Comes From Government.

I Like Music Of Almost Any Kind - Including This.

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.

There Are 47 Percent Of The People Who Will Vote For The President No Matter What. All Right, There Are 47 Percent Who Are With Him, Who Are Dependent Upon Government, Who Believe That They Are Victims, Who Believe That Government Has A Responsibility To Care For Them, Who Believe That They Are Entitled To Health Care, To Food, To Housing, To You Name It.

Well You'd See A Very Dramatic Change In The Perspective Of Small Businesses, Entrepreneurs, Middle-size Businesses, And Perhaps Even Some Large Multinationals. They'd Say, You Know What, America Looks Like A Good Place To Invest Again, A Good Place To Take Risk, A Good Place To Hire Again.

If General Motors, Ford And Chrysler Get The Bailout That Their Chief Executives Asked For Yesterday, You Can Kiss The American Automotive Industry Goodbye. It Won't Go Overnight, But Its Demise Will Be Virtually Guaranteed. Without That Bailout, Detroit Will Need To Drastically Restructure Itself. With It, The Automakers Will Stay The Course - The Suicidal Course Of Declining Market Shares, Insurmountable Labor And Retiree Burdens, Technology Atrophy, Product Inferiority And Never-ending Job Losses. Detroit Needs A Turnaround, Not A Check.

This Is The America That I Love. This Is A Great People. We Can Do Anything. We Can Achieve Anything. We've Got A Government That Has Gotten In The Way Of The American People. We're Going To Change That In November.

Let Me Tell You, The Heart Of My Tax Proposal: I Will Not Raise Taxes On The American People. I Will Not Raise Taxes On Middle-income Americans.

I Like Silly Stuff, Too. I Like The 'twilight' Series. That Was Fun.

Americans Acknowledge That Liberty Is A Gift Of God, Not An Indulgence Of Government.

It Was The Right Decision To Go Into Iraq. I Supported It At The Time; I Support It Now.

I'm A Normal Person. I Have Emotions.

Instead Of Leading The World By How Much We Borrow, It's Time That We Make Sure We Lead The World In How Much We Build And Create And Invest.

The American Servicemen And Women Of The Guard And Reserve Leave Their Jobs, Their Spouses And Their Children To Wear The Uniform That Defends Our Country. This Selfless Commitment Should Be Honored By Businesses Across Massachusetts As We Work To Ensure They Are Treated Fairly While They Balance Their Employment Responsibilities And Obligations To The Armed Services. No Business Should Ever Put The Bottom Line Ahead Of America's Front Line.

The Founders Proscribed The Establishment Of A State Religion, But They Did Not Countenance The Elimination Of Religion From The Public Square. We Are A Nation 'under God' And In God, We Do Indeed Trust.

My Strategy Is Pretty Straightforward, Which Is To Go After The Bad Guys, To Make Sure We Do Our Very Best To Interrupt Them, To - To Kill Them, To Take Them Out Of The Picture. But My Strategy Is Broader Than That. That's - That's Important, Of Course. But The Key That We're Going To Have To Pursue Is A - Is A Pathway To Get The Muslim World To Be Able To Reject Extremism On Its Own.

If I Am Elected President Of These United States, I Will Work With All My Energy And Soul To Restore That America, To Lift Our Eyes To A Better Future. That Future Is Our Destiny. That Future Is Out There. It Is Waiting For Us. Our Children Deserve It, Our Nation Depends Upon It, The Peace And Freedom Of The World Require It.

I'm Not Sure About These Cookies ... They Came From The Local 7/11 Bakery, Or Whatever.

No One Is Talking About Restructuring Social Security Or Medicare For Current Retirees Or For Those That Are Near Retirement. For Those Under 55, The Answer Is Let's Talk About It.

The People Who Are Having The Hard Time Right Now Are Middle-income Americans. Under The President's Policies, Middle-income Americans Have Been Buried. They're Just Being Crushed. Middle-income Americans Have Seen Their Income Come Down By $4,300. This Is A Tax In And Of Itself. I'll Call It The Economy Tax. It's Been Crushing.

We Can't Expect Entrepreneurs And Businesses Large And Small To Take Their Life Savings Or Their Company's Money And Invest In America If They Think We're Headed To The Road To Greece. And That's Where We're Going Right Now Unless We Finally Get Off This Spending And Borrowing Binge. And I'll Get Us On Track To A Balanced Budget.

We're Not Going To Let Our Campaign Be Dictated By Fact Checkers.

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.

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.

I Never Really Called Myself Pro-choice.

I Am Running For President To Help Create A Better Future. A Future Where Everyone Who Wants A Job Can Find One. Where No Senior Fears For The Security Of Their Retirement. An America Where Every Parent Knows That Their Child Will Get An Education That Leads Them To A Good Job And A Bright Horizon.

A Pakistan That Falls Apart, Becomes A Failed State, Would Be Of Extraordinary Danger To Afghanistan And To America.

I Want To Get America's Private Sector Growing And I Know How To Do It.

Frankly, I Was Born With A Silver Spoon.

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

I Served As A Missionary For My Church. I Served As A Pastor In My Congregation For About 10 Years. I’ve Sat Across The Table From People Who Were - Were Out Of Work And Worked With Them To Try And Find New Work Or To Help Them Through Tough Times.

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

I Said Those Things About Gay Rights And Abortion On Opposite Day. I Cannot Believe You Don't Have Opposite Day In North Carolina!

Even Though I Love Solar And Love Wind, Like Most People Do, I Like The Renewable Sources, They Alone Are Not Going To Get America Energy Independent.

I Was Too Important To Go To Vietnam.

Happiness, For Me, Is A Function Of The Number Of People I Love, And I Think Joy And Happiness Is Directly Related To How Many People Are In Our Lives And How Deeply We Are Bonded With Those People. And So I'm Happy If I'm With Ann; I'm Happier If I'm Also With My Family And My Grandchildren.

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

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.

America Is The Hope Of The Earth.

If I Have A Bad Hair Day, I Just Think, Well, It Will Be An Ok Hair Day Tomorrow. Just Put Your Head Down And Go. Life Is A Bit Like Being On A Roller Coaster, Which Is, You Get On And There's No Stopping Along The Way. There Are Some Days When You Feel Like This Is Pretty Tough, And There Are The Days That Are Exhilarating, But You Just Keep On Going.

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.

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

Great Presidents

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.

Having Strength, Having A Strong Military, Is The Ally Of Peace. Exercising That Strength Through Military Action Is Not Always Necessary If You Have The Confidence And Clarity Of Vision And Purpose Which America Demands.

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.

Let Me Put It Very Plainly, If We Republicans Choose Donald Trump As Our Nominee, The Prospects For A Safe And Prosperous Future Are Greatly Diminished.

Prosperous Future

It Is Essential For America To Understand What Our Mission Is In Iran, And That Is To Dissuade Iran From Having A Nuclear Weapon Through Peaceful And Diplomatic Means.

If Israel Is Attacked, America Has Their Back, Not Just Diplomatically, Not Just Culturally, But Militarily.

And Wages - We'll See The End Of This Decline We're Having. The Median Income In America Is Down 10% In Just The Last Four Years. That's Got To Stop. We've Got To Start Seeing Rising Wages And Job Growth.

What I Can Tell You Is I'm Not Running For President. I'm Not Going To Run For President. I'm Going To Support One Of These Four People To Be Our Nominee. I'm Supporting Three Of Them Right Now. And That Means That We're Going To Get One Of Those People As Our Nominee.

I Will Work And Fight For Stem Cell Research.

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

Everything Corporations Earn Ultimately Goes To People.

It Strikes Me As Odd That The Free Exercise Of Religious Faith Is Sometimes Treated As A Problem, Something America Is Stuck With Instead Of Blessed With.

I Happen To Believe That If We Want To Replace A Lifetime Politician Like Barack Obama, Who Had No Experience Leading Anything... We've Got To Nominate A Leader If We're Going To Replace Someone Who Is Not A Leader.

Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.

Conservative Values

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

I Do Believe That By Virtue Of Having A Volunteer Army, You Are Going To Have Men And Women Who Decide To Serve And Others Who Decide To Pursue Different Careers.

The Nation, As You Know, Is At A Critical Point. At A Time Like This We Can't Risk Partisan Bickering And Political Posturing. Our Leaders Have To Reach Across The Aisle To Do The People's Work.

Instead Of Just Giving Lip Service To Improving Our Schools, I Will Actually Put The Kids First And The Teachers Union Behind In Giving Our Kids Better Teachers, Better Options And Better Choices For A Better Future.

Live For A Purpose Greater Than Yourself.

I Wish President Obama Had Succeeded Because I Want America To Succeed.

Culture, What You Believe, What You Value, How You Live Matters. Now, As Fundamental As These Principles Are, They May Become Topics Of Democratic Debates From Time To Time, So It Is Today With The Enduring Institution Of Marriage. Marriage Is A Relationship Between A Man And A Woman.

I Think There Is Need For Economic Stimulus... And Government Can Help Make That Up In A Very Difficult Time.

I Think The Great Majority Of Republicans, Mainstream Republicans From Across The Country, Don't Want To See Donald Trump As President Of The United States Either. They're Concerned They'd See A Recession And I Think They Are Also Concerned We'd See A More Dangerous World.

Dangerous World

I'm Pleased That I've Balanced Budgets. I Was On The World Of Business For 25 Years. If You Didn't Balance Your Budget, You Went Out Of Business. I Went Into The Olympics That Was Out Of Balance, And We Got It On Balance, And Made A Success There. I Had The Chance To Be Governor Of A State. Four Years In A Row, Democrats And Republicans Came Together To Balance The Budget. We Cut Taxes 19 Times And Balanced Our Budget.

I Think People Recognize That I'm Not A Partisan Republican That I'm Someone Who Is Moderate, And That My Views Are Progressive.

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.

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

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

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.

America Has To Stand By Our Allies. I Think The Tension That Existed Between Israel And The United States Was Very Unfortunate.

Frankly If I Had Paid More Than Are Legally Due I Don't Think I'd Be Qualified To Become President.

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

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

It's Opportunity. It's Opportunity, Not A Check From Government - It's Opportunity That Has Always Driven America And Defined Us As Americans.

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.

I'm Running For Office, For Pete's Sake, I Can't Have Illegals.

Right Now We Have An Economy In Trouble, And Someone Who Spent Their Career In The Economy Is More Suited To Help Fix The Economy Than Someone Who Spent His Life In Politics And As A Community Organizer.

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.

We Have A Long-standing Tradition In This Country To Follow The Advice Of Senator Vandenberg, Which Is That Politics Ends At The Water's Edge.

I Think The Global Warming Debate Is Now Pretty Much Over And People Recognize The Need Associated With Providing Sources Which Do Not Generate The Heat That Is Currently Provided By Fossil Fuels. I Concur That Climate Change Is Beginning To [have An] Effect On Our Natural Resources And That Now Is The Time To Take Action.

The Answer For Healthcare Is Market Incentives, Not Healthcare By A Godzilla-sized Government Bureaucracy.

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.

No Person I Have Ever Met, Not Even The Most Righteous Or Pure Of Heart, Has Gone Without Those Times When Faith Recedes In The Busy-ness Of Life.

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.

I Know What It Takes To Balance Budgets. I Have Done It My Entire Life.

I'm Not Trying To Return To Reagan-bush.

We [american Nation] Can Now, By Virtue Of New Technology, Actually Get All The Energy We Need In North America Without Having To Go To The - The Arabs Or The Venezuelans Or Anyone Else. That's Why My Policy Starts With A Very Robust Policy To Get All That Energy In North America, Become Energy-secure.

We Still Believe In The America That Is A Land Of Opportunity And A Beacon Of Freedom. We Believe In The America That Challenges Each Of Us To Be Better And Bigger Than Ourselves.

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.

I Have Some Friends Who Are Nascar Team Owners.

Our Party [republicans] Has Been Focused On Big Business Too Long. I Came Through Small Business. I Understand How Hard It Is To Start A Small Business. That's Why Everything I'll Do Is Designed To Help Small Businesses Grow And Add Jobs. I Want To Keep Their Taxes Down On Small Business. I Want Regulators To See Their Job As Encouraging Small Enterprise, Not Crushing It.

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

The Principles That Made This Nation A Great And Powerful Leader Of The World, Have Not Lost Their Meaning. They Never Will. We Know We Can Bring This Country Back. I'm Mitt Romney. I Believe In America. And I'm Running For President Of The United States.

Ok To Appoint Atheists Or Agnostics-no Litmus Test Of Faith.

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 Believe Very Firmly In The Principle Of Free Agency - People Making Their Own Decisions And Doing What They Think Is Right.

I Will Fight For Oil, Coal And Natural Gas.

My Father And I Marched With Martin Luther King Jr. Through The Streets Of Detroit.

I'm Not Concerned About The Very Poor. We Have A Safety Net There. If It Needs A Repair, I'll Fix It.

It's Not Appropriate To Joke About The Ku Klux Klan.

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 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.

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.

I'm Optimistic About The Future. I'm Excited About Our Prospects As A Nation. I Want To See Peace. I Want To See Growing Peace In America. It's Our Objective.

I'm Thinking About The People Who I Want To See Running For President. And There's Quite A Group. I Mean We Have A Very Strong Field Of Leaders Who Could Become Our Nominee And - And Could Stand Up For The Kind Of Leadership I Think America Wants.

Establishment Suggests There Must Be Some Wizard Of Oz Somewhere Pulling The Strings. That's Not The Way It Works. There Are Individuals Like Myself. I Sat There And Watched Donald Trump, And I Said, Look, Someone Has Got To Say Something.

While I'm On Foreign Soil, I - I Just Don't Feel That I Should Be Speaking About Differences With Regards To Myself And President Obama On Foreign Policy, Either Foreign Policy Of The Past, Or For Foreign Policy Prescriptions.

I Don't Doubt For A Second That Neil Armstrong's Spirit Is Still With Us: That Unique Blend Of Optimism, Humility And The Utter Confidence That When The World Needs Someone To Do The Really Big Stuff, You Need An American.

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.

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.

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.

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

We Conservatives Don't Have A Corner On Saying No. We're Just The Ones Who Say It When It's The Right Thing To Say.

Right Thing To Say

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.

Education Is The Investment Our Generation Makes In The Future.

As President, I Will Create 12 Million New Jobs.

China Has To Understand America Wants To Trade With Them. We Want A World That's Stable. We Like Free Enterprise, But You Got To Play By The Rules.

And This President Wakes Up Every Morning, Looks Out Across America And Is Proud To Announce, 'it Could Be Worse.' It Could Be Worse? Is That What It Means To Be An American? It Could Be Worse? Of Course Not. What Defines Us As Americans Is Our Unwavering Conviction That We Know It Must Be Better.

I Think People Want To See Change, Want To See Something New And Hillary Clinton Is Just Not That Person.

What Outsourcing Causes - What It's Caused By, Rather. I Understand, For Instance, How To Read A Balance Sheet. I Happen To Believe That Having Been In The Private Sector For Twenty-five Years Gives Me A Perspective On How Jobs Are Created - That Someone Who's Never Spent A Day In The Private Sector, Like President Obama, Simply Doesn't Understand.

I Believe The World Benefits From American Leadership. I Believe This Next Century Should Be An American Century.

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

I'm Not Concerned About The Very Poor, We Have A Safety Net There, If We Need To Repair, I'll Fix It. I'm Not Concerned About The Very Rich, They're Doing Just Fine. I'm Concerned About The Very Heart Of America, The 90-95 Percent Of Americans Who Are Struggling, And I'll Continue To Take That Message Across The Country.

Starving Research And Development Is Like Eating The Seed Corn.

Research And Development

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

If I'm President, America Will Be Very Strong.

I Was A Severely Conservative Republican Governor.

I Always Enjoy Listening To Rush Limbaugh. I Often Agree With Him. Sometimes I Disagree With Him.

I Went To Massachusetts To Make A Difference. I Didn't Go There To Begin A Political Career Running Time And Time Again. I Made A Difference. I Put In Place The Things I Wanted To Do.

You Know, Circumstances Can Change, But I'm Just Not Going To Let My Head Go There.

I Will Spend The Next Four Years Rebuilding The Foundation Of A Opportunity Society Led By Free People And Free Enterprises.

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

I Like Being Able To Fire People.

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.

President Obama Has Thrown Allies Like Israel Under The Bus, Even As He Has Relaxed Sanctions On Castro's Cuba. He Abandoned Our Friends In Poland By Walking Away From Our Missile Defense Commitments, But Is Eager To Give Russia's President Putin The Flexibility He Desires, After The Election. Under My Administration, Our Friends Will See More Loyalty, And Mr. Putin Will See A Little Less Flexibility And More Backbone.

I Fully Support Governor Kasich's-i Think It's Called 'question 2' In Ohio. Fully Support That. In Fact, On My Website As Far Back As April I Laid Out I Supported 'question 2.' ... I Support It 110%.

We Reserve Our Deepest Respect And Admiration For Those Who Volunteer For Service And Give Their Lives To Help Keep Our Nation Secure.

Admiration And Respect

Tomorrow We Begin A New Tomorrow.

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.

Ending Illegal Immigration Only Strengthens Legal Immigration.

Illegal Immigration

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.

We Can Believe As We Want, But We Should Not Force Our Beliefs On Others.

When The President Of Iran Ahmadinejad Says That Our Debt Makes America Not A Great Country, That's A Frightening Thing.

It's False Advertising To Call Mrs. Obama The First Lady. First Woman, Maybe, But Certainly Not A Lady. Ann Romney Is An Actual Lady.

No Punishment For Women Who Have Partial Birth Abortions.

I Have Never Once Regretted Missing A Business Opportunity So That I Could Be With My Children And Grandchildren.

One Simple Rule: No Amnesty, No Special Pathway To Citizenship.

My View Is That Marriage Is A Relationship Between A Man And A Woman. That's The Position I've Had For Some Time, And I Don't Intend To Make Any Adjustments At This Point... Or Ever, By The Way.

Together We Will Build An America Where Hope Is A New Job With A Paycheck, Not A Faded Word On An Old Bumper Sticker.

I Know What It Takes To Create Good Jobs Again. I Know What It Takes To Make Sure That You Have The Kind Of Opportunity You Deserve. And Kids Across This Country Are Going To Recognize, We're Bringing Back An Economy.

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

Corporations Are People, My Friend.

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.

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.

I Believe In An America Where Millions Of Americans Believe In An America That's The America Millions Of Americans Believe In. That's The America I Love.

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