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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.

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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.

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Our Plans Protect Freedom And Opportunity, And Our Blueprint Is The Constitution Of The United States.

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.

Free Enterprise Has Done More To Lift People Out Of Poverty, To Help Build A Strong Middle Class, To Help Educate Our Kids, And To Make Our Lives Better Than All The Programs Of Government Combined.

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

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.

I Bathe In Statistics.

President Obama's View Of A Free Economy Is To Send Your Money To His Friends. My Vision For A Free Enterprise Economy Is To Return Entrepreneurship And Genius And Creativity To The American People!

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 Was An Avidly Pro-life Governor; I'm An Avidly Pro-life Individual. As A Pro-life Republican, I Am In Favor Of Having The Supreme Court Overturn Roe V. Wade.

When It Comes To Pinning Blame, Pin The Tail On The Donkeys.

Syria Is Iran's Only Ally In The Arab World. It's Their Route To The Sea. It's The Route For Them To Arm Hezbollah In Lebanon, Which Threatens, Of Course, Our Ally, Israel.

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.

I Did Not Direct Any Of My Investments Nor Did I Know Of These Investments.

People From Both Political Parties Have Long Recognized That Welfare Without Work Creates Negative Incentives That Lead To Permanent Poverty. It Robs People Of Self-esteem.

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.

Freedom Requires Religion Just As Religion Requires Freedom.

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%.

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When Government Is... Bailing Out Banks... We Have Every Good Reason To Be Alarmed.

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 Will Fight For Oil, Coal And Natural Gas.

I'm Outraged By The Attacks On American Diplomatic Missions In Libya And Egypt And By The Death Of An American Consulate Worker In Benghazi. It's Disgraceful That The Obama Administration's First Response Was Not To Condemn Attacks On Our Diplomatic Missions, But To Sympathize With Those Who Waged The Attacks.

Internationally, President Obama Has Adopted An Appeasement Strategy. He Believes America's Role As Leader In The World Is A Thing Of The Past. I Believe A Strong America Must - And Will - Lead The Future.

Donald Trump Creates Scapegoats In Muslims And Mexican Immigrants. He Calls For The Use Of Torture. He Calls For Killing The Innocent Children And Family Members Of Terrorists. He Cheers Assaults On Protesters. He Applauds The Prospect Of Twisting The Constitution To Limit First Amendment Freedom Of The Press. This Is The Very Brand Of Anger That Has Led Other Nations Into The Abyss.

I Like Music Of Almost Any Kind - Including This.

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.

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.

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

And That's How It Is In America. We Look To Our Communities, Our Faiths, Our Families For Our Joy, Our Support, In Good Times And Bad. It Is Both How We Live Our Lives And Why We Live Our Lives.

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.

With Regards To My Views On Protecting A Woman's Right To Choose, I've Been Very Clear On That. I Will Preserve And Protect A Woman's Right To Choose. And I'm Devoted And Dedicated To Honoring My Word In That Regard. I Am Pro-choice.

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.

But I Am Pro-life And Will Intend, If I’m President Of The United States, To Encourage Pro-life Policies. [...] And I Hope To Appoint Justices To The Supreme Court That Will Follow The Law And The Constitution. And It Would Be My Preference That They Reverse Roe V. Wade And Therefore They Return To The People And Their Elected Representatives The Decisions With Regards To This Important Issue.

If You Felt That Excitement When You Voted For Barack Obama, Shouldn't You Feel That Way Now That He's President Obama? You Know There's Something Wrong With The Kind Of Job He's Done As President When The Best Feeling You Had Was The Day You Voted For Him.

When My Mom Ran For The Senate, My Dad Was There For Her Every Step Of The Way. I Can Still Hear Her Saying In Her Beautiful Voice, 'why Should Women Have Any Less Say Than Men, About The Great Decisions Facing Our Nation?'

Massachusetts Children Cannot Only Lead The Nation In Test Scores, They Can Be Competitive With The Best In The World. And The Gap In Achievement Among Races Can Virtually Disappear.

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

President Obama Promised To Begin To Slow The Rise Of The Oceans And Heal The Planet. My Promise... Is To Help You And Your Family.

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.

Leadership - Leadership Is About Taking Responsibility, Not Making Excuses.

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

I Longed In Many Respects To Actually Be In Vietnam And Be Representing Our Country There.

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.

When It Comes To The Economy, My Highest Priority As President Will Be Worrying About Your Job, Not Saving My Own.

The Right Way To Deal With Healthcare Reform Is Not To Have A One-size-fits-all Plan That's Imposed On All The States, But Recognizing The Differences Between Different States' Populations, States Should Be Able To Craft Their Own Plans To Get All Their Citizens Insured, And To Make Sure That Preexisting Conditions Are Covered.

Healthcare Reform

Donald Trump Talks About How He's Not Going To Be Controlled By The Moneyed Interests. Do People Understand That He's Not Giving Money To His Campaign, He's Loaning It Because He Expects To Get Money Back From Those Same Big Donors He Decries Right Now? He's Planning On Running A General Election Based Upon Raising Money From Those Very People.

Ronald Reagan Was Able To Accomplish Extraordinary Purposes For Our Country Without Having To Put Our Military Forces Into Conflict.

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

Larger Than Life

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

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

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.

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

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

Tomorrow We Begin A New Tomorrow.

Now Workers Should Have The Right To Join Unions. But Unions Should Not Be Forced Upon Workers. And Unions Should Not Have The Power To Take Money Our Of Their Members' Paychecks To Buy The Support Of Politicians That Are Favored By The Union Bosses.

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

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I'm Severely Conservative.

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Endorsed By Bob Jones, Despite Calling Mormonism A "cult".

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

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.

I Like The Twilight Series. I Thought It Was Fun. I Don’t Like Vampires Personally, I Don’t Know Any; But You Know My Granddaughter Was Reading It And I Thought, Well This Looks Like Fun So I Read That.

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.

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.

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.

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

No Mandatory Prison Term For Employers Who Hire Illegals.

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

I Would Say That Foreign Policy Is A Place Where Intelligence, Resolve, Clarity, And Confidence In Cause, Is Of Extraordinary Importance.

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 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.

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 Absolutely Believe That Those Who Come Here Illegally Should Not Be Given Favoritism Or A Special Route To Becoming Permanent Residents Or Citizens That's Not Given To Those People Who Have Stayed In Line Legally. I Just Think We Have To Follow The Law, I Think That's The Right Course.

I Saw My Father March With Martin Luther King.

My Policy On Energy Is... To Make America The Largest Energy Producer In The World. I Think We Can Get There, In 10 Or 15 Years. That Will Bring Back Manufacturing Of Certain High-energy Intensive Industries. It'll Bring Back Jobs. It'll Create A Surprising Economic Revitalization Of This Country.

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

I Think When People Accuse You Of A Crime, You Have Every Reason To Go After Them Pretty Hard.

I Have Some Friends Who Are Nascar Team Owners.

I Believe We Should Use Any And All Means Necessary To Take Out People Who Pose A Threat To Us And Our Friends Around The World.

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

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

In Order To Be Able To Fulfill Our Role In The World, America Must Be Strong. America Must Lead. And For That To Happen, We Have To Strengthen Our Economy Here At Home.

And Let Me Make This Very Clear - Unlike President Obama, I Will Not Raise Taxes On The Middle Class. As President, I Will Protect The Sanctity Of Life. I Will Honor The Institution Of Marriage. And I Will Guarantee America's First Liberty: The Freedom Of Religion.

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

I Will Not Cut Our Military Budget By A Trillion Dollars, Which Is A Combination Of The Budget Cuts Barack Obama Has, As Well As The Sequestration Cuts. That, In My View, Is Making Our Future Less Certain And Less Secure.

America's Going To Come Back, And For That To Happen, We're Going To Have To Have A President Who Can Work Across The Aisle.

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.

I Would Like To Have Campaign Spending Limits...

Starving Research And Development Is Like Eating The Seed Corn.

Research And Development

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.

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

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.

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.

People Of Different Faiths, Like Yours And Mine, Sometimes Wonder Where We Can Meet In Common Purpose, When There Are So Many Differences In Creed And Theology. Surely The Answer Is That We Can Meet In Service.

Like The Vast Majority Of Americans, I've Opposed Same-sex Marriage, But I've Also Opposed Unjust Discrimination Against Anyone, For Racial Or Religious Reasons, Or For Sexual Preference. Americans Are A Tolerant, Generous, And Kind People. We All Oppose Bigotry And Disparagement. But The Debate Over Same-sex Marriage Is Not A Debate Over Tolerance. It Is A Debate About The Purpose Of The Institution Of Marriage And It Is A Debate About Activist Judges Who Make Up The Law Rather Than Interpret The Law.

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

Detroit Needs A Turnaround, Not A Check.

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.

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'm A Strong Believer In Stating Your Position And Not Wavering.

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.

Donald Trump Is Not The Real Deal. I Think As Ted Cruz And Marco Rubio Made That Very Clear.

I Think The Minimum Wage Ought To Keep Pace With Inflation.

If You Want To Serve The Country, You Recognize It's Rough And Tumble. And It's Nothing Like Serving Your Country In The Military.

You Know, My Dad Served In The President's Cabinet After His Time As A Governor. He Told Me He Enjoyed Being Governor A Lot More. Now, I Understand Why. If I Do My Job Well, I Can Make A Difference In People's Lives And I Can Help Our Children Realize Their Dreams.

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

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

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.

We Have Serious Enemies And Growing Threats Around The World. Unfortunately, We Have An Administration Whose Idea Of A Rogue State Is Arizona.

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.

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.

I Longed In Many Respects To Actually Be In Vietnam And Be Representing Our Country There And In Some Ways It Was Frustrating Not To Feel Like I Was There As Part Of The Troops That Were Fighting In Vietnam.

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.

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

Hugo Chavez Has Tried To Steal An Inspiring Phrase - 'patria O Muerte, Venceremos.' It Does Not Belong To Him. It Belongs To A Free Cuba.

I Think The Best Answer Is As Little As Possible.

The Future Of The United States And The Most Important Election In A Generation, And He [donald Trump] Is Trying To Con People Into Giving Them Their Vote, Just Like He Conned These People Into Giving Them Their Money.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Frankly, I Was Born With A Silver Spoon.

I Will Not Create Jobs Or Hold Jobs That Kill People, And That Plant - That Plant Kills People.

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.

Actually, I Didn't Say That.

People Who Are Government Servants, Public Servants, Should Not Be Paid More Than The Taxpayers Who Are Paying For It.

No Punishment For Women Who Have Partial Birth Abortions.

We Respect And Honor Very Deeply Those People Who Decide To Serve Their Country In The Military. But We Certainly Don't Denigrate People Who Choose A Different Course, Particularly When We Have An All-volunteer Army.

Only Freedom Has Ever Been The Answer To Poverty.

It Kills Me Not To Be There, Not To Be In The White House Doing What Needs To Be Done.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Deadly Assault Weapons Have No Place In Massachusetts.

Assault Weapons

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.

And The American People Are The Greatest People In The World. What Makes America The Greatest Nation In The World Is The Heart Of The American People: Hardworking, Innovative, Risk-taking, God- Loving, Family-oriented American People.

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

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'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.

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

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

Republicans Prefer Straight Talk To Politically Correct Talk!

Politically Correct

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.

The Tarp Program Was Nevertheless Necessary To Keep Banks From Collapsing In A Cascade Of Failures.

I Went To A Number Of Women's Groups And Said, "can You Help Us Find Folks," And They Brought Us Whole Binders Full Of Women.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 Met A Guy Yesterday, 7 Feet Tall. Yeah, Handsome, Great Big Guy, 7 Feet Tall! ... I Figured He Had To Be In Sport, But He Wasn't In Sport.

We Have To Stand For Our Principles, Stand For Our Allies, Stand For A Strong Military And Stand For A Stronger Economy.

As President, I Will Create 12 Million New Jobs.

My Doctrine Is As I've Described, Which Is Confidence In Our Cause, Clarity In Our Purpose, And Resolve In Our Might.

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

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.

When I Place My Hand On The Bible And Take The Oath Of Office, That Oath Becomes My Highest Promise To God. If I Am Fortunate To Become Your President, I Will Serve No One Religion, No One Group, No One Cause, And No One Interest. A President Must Serve Only The Common Cause Of The People Of The United States.

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

I Want To Make Sure That We Make America More Competitive. And That We Do Those Things That Make America The Most Attractive Place In The World For Entrepreneurs, Innovators, Businesses To Grow.

We Need To Make Sure And That We Can Continue To Move Forward In Creating Jobs And Getting The Economy Turned Around. The Best Way To Do That Is To Make Sure That We Can Get Congress To Adopt The American Jobs Act.

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

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

I Have Paid Taxes Every Year, A Lot Of Taxes.

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

This Nation Is The Hope Of The Earth.

I Was A Severely Conservative Republican Governor.

If I'm The Godfather Of [obamacare], Then It Gives Me The Right To Kill It.

Second, We Will Give Our Fellow Citizens The Skills They Need For The Jobs Of Today And The Careers Of Tomorrow. When It Comes To The School Your Child Will Attend, Every Parent Should Have A Choice, And Every Child Should Have A Chance.

Supreme Court Had Said Feds Should Stay Out Of Abortion.

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.

I Supported The Assault Weapon Ban.

Assault Weapons

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

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

Since President Obama Assumed Office Three Years Ago, Federal Spending Has Accelerated At A Pace Without Precedent In Recent History.

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.

There Are 160,000 Of Our Men And Women In Iraq That Wonder Whether There Is Going To Be A Hand Grenade Or A Missile Lobbed Into Where They Are Sleeping At Night. Those Are People Who Make A Real Sacrifice.

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