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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.

-Mitt Romney

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If I Am Elected

Mitt Romney

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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.

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Prosperous Future

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

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Research And Development

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Admiration And Respect

[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.

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Funny Relationship

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Everything Corporations Earn Ultimately Goes To People.

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I Took Action As Governor To Preserve The Sanctity Of Life.

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So If We Use Birth Control We Don't Need To Be Married?

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.

Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.

Conservative Values

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I Believe That Abortion Should Be Safe And Legal In This Country.

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.

Russia Does Continue To Battle Us In The U.n. Time And Time Again. I Have Clear Eyes On This. I'm Not Going To Wear Rose-colored Glasses When It Comes To Russia, Or Mr. (russian President Vladimir) Putin. And I'm Certainly Not Going To Say To Him, I'll Give You More Flexibility After The Election. After The Election, He'll Get More Backbone.

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).

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.

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

I Don't Believe That Bureaucrats In Washington Should Tell Someone Whether They Can Use Contraceptives Or Not. And I Don't Believe Employers Should Tell Someone Whether They Could Have Contraceptive Care Of Not. Every Woman In America Should Have Access To Contraceptives.

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

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.

The Multiculturalism Movement Must Be Unmasked For The Fraud That It Is. There Are Superior Cultures, And Ours Is One Of Them.

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

Opportunity Expands When There Is Excellence And Choice In Education, When Taxes Are Lowered, When Every Citizen Has Affordable, Portable Health Insurance And When Constitutional Freedoms Are Preserved.

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

What We Have Said And - And - And With Which I Concur Is That We Should Use Every Diplomatic And Political Vehicle That's Available To Us To Keep Iran From Becoming A Nuclear Capability State.

Seeing Syria Remove Assad Is A Very High Priority For America.

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 It's Unconstitutional On The 10th Amendment Front.

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

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.

Look, I Was An Independent During The Time Of Reagan-bush. I'm Not Trying To Return To Reagan-bush.

Supreme Court Had Said Feds Should Stay Out Of Abortion.

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?'

As President, My Goal In Afghanistan Will Be To Complete A Successful Transition To Afghan Security Forces By The End Of 2014. I Will Evaluate Conditions On The Ground And Solicit The Best Advice Of Our Military Commanders. And I Will Affirm That My Duty Is Not To My Political Prospects, But To The Security Of The Nation.

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.

For Me, Politics Is Not A Career. For Me, My Career Was Being In Business And Starting A Business And Making It Successful. My - My Life's Passion Has Been My Family, My Faith, And My Country.

That The Policies - From Energy To Labor Policies, Trade Policies, Government Policies Relating To Debt And Deficits Are All Aligning In Such A Way That America, Far From Being One Of The Places People Are Running From, Is A Place People Are Going To Come To And Add Jobs.

I Will Work And Fight For Stem Cell Research.

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.

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

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

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

Some People In America Feel That Pakistan Is Being Nice To Us, And That We Should Walk Away Fro Mthem. But Pakistan Is Important To The Region, To The World And To Us, Because Pakistan Has 100 Nuclear Warheads And They're Rushing To Build A Lot More. They'll Have More Than Great Britain Sometime In The - In The Relatively Near Future.

My Dad Had Been Born In Mexico And His Family Had To Leave During The Mexican Revolution.

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

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

I'm Not Going To Wear Rose-colored Glasses When It Comes To Russia, Or Mr. Putin.

You Can't Have 23 Million People Struggling To Get A Job. You Can't Have An Economy That Over The Last Three Years Keeps Slowing Down Its Growth Rate. You Can't Have Kids Coming Out Of College, Half Of Them Can't Find A Job Today, Or A Job That's Commensurate With Their College Degree. We Have To Get Our Economy Going.

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.

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

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

China Has An Interest That's Very Much Like Ours In One Respect, And That Is They Want A Stable World. They Don't Want War. They Don't Want To See Protectionism. They Don't Want To See The World Break Out Into Various Forms Of Chaos.

In The Richest Country In The History Of The World, This Obama Economy Has Crushed The Middle Class. Family Income Has Fallen By $4,000, But Health Insurance Premiums Are Higher, Food Prices Are Higher, Utility Bills Are Higher, And Gasoline Prices Have Doubled. Today More Americans Wake Up In Poverty Than Ever Before.

Gasoline Prices

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

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.

Through Pro-growth Policies, By Abolishing Obamacare And Eliminating Other Obama-imposed Impediments To Economic Growth, We Will Get Our Economy Back On Track.

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

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.

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

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

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.

It Was Absolutely Critical To Renew The Bush Tax Cuts. Letting Them Expire Would Result In A Massive Tax Increase That Would Retard Economic Growth.

I Am Convinced That Unless America Changes Course, We Will Become The France Of The 21st Century - Still A Great Nation, But No Longer The Leader Of The World...

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

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.

Now Is The Moment When We Can Stand Up And Say, 'i'm An American. I Make My Destiny. And We Deserve Better! My Children Deserve Better! My Family Deserves Better. My Country Deserves Better!' So Here We Stand. Americans Have A Choice.

President Barack Obama Has Stood Watch Over The Greatest Job Loss In Modern American History. And That, My Friends, Is One Inconvenient Truth That Will Haunt This President Throughout History.

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.

America Is Not Better Off Than It Was $1.8 Trillion Dollars Ago.

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.

My Passion Probably Flows From The Fact That I Believe In God, And I Believe We’re All Children Of The Same God. I Believe We Have A Responsibility To Care For One Another.

I'm Not Going To Apologize For Being Successful.

Being Successful

I Understand The Impact Of Those Kinds Of Factors On Job Creation. I Will Have A Very Different Policy. My Policy On Energy Is To Take Advantage Of Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, As Well As Our Renewables, And Nuclear - Make America The Largest Energy Producer In The World.

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

The American People Should Be Free To Advocate For Their Candidates And Their Positions Without Burdensome Limitations.

Let's Take Energy, For Instance. I Understand That In Some Industries, The Input Cost Of Energy Is A Major Factor In Whether An Industry Is Going To Locate In The United States Or Go Elsewhere. So, When, At Bain Capital, We Started A New Steel Company Called Steel Dynamics In Indiana, The Cost Of Energy Was A Very Important Factor To The Success Of That Enterprise.

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.

Freedom Requires Religion Just As Religion Requires Freedom.

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.

We've Got To Strengthen Our Military Long-term. We Don't Know What The World Is Going To Throw At Us Down The Road.

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.

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.

You Balance The Budget By Restraining The Growth Of Government And Encouraging The Growth Of The Private Sector.

When You Have A Fire In An Aircraft, There's No Place To Go, Exactly, There's No - And You Can't Find Any Oxygen From Outside The Aircraft To Get In The Aircraft, Because The Windows Don't Open. I Don't Know Why They Don't Do That. It's A Real Problem.

No Punishment For Women Who Have Partial Birth Abortions.

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