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This Is Something Which I Think This Country Needs... I Want Universal Coverage! I Want Everyone In Massachusetts And In This Country To Have Insurance. I Support Universal Health Care.

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This Is Something Which I Think This Country Needs... I Want Universal Coverage! I Want Everyone In Massachusetts And In This Country To Have Insurance. I Support Universal Health Care.

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If A Society Takes It Upon Itself To Prescribe And Proscribe Certain Streams Of Belief - To Prohibit Certain Less-favored Strains Of Conscience - It May Be The Non-believer Who Is Among The First To Be Condemned. A Coercive Monopoly Of Belief Threatens Everyone, Whether We Are Talking About Those Who Search The Philosophies Of Men Or Follow The Words Of God.

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

I Think The Best Answer Is As Little As Possible.

I've Seen A Lot Of Government Try To Solve Problems, And It Didn't Work. And My View Is That The Right Course For America Is To Have Someone Who Understands How The Economy Works Who Will Passionately Get America Back On Track.

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

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

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

Planned Parenthood, We're Going To Get Rid Of That.

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

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

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

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

I Look Around The World, I Don't See America's Influence Growing Around The World. I See Our Influence Receding, In Part Because Of The Failure Of Barack Obama To Deal With Our Economic Challenges At Home; In Part Because Of Our Withdrawal From Our Commitment To Our Military In The Way I Think It Ought To Be; In Part Because Of The Turmoil With Israel.

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.

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.

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

We Can Be Deeply Thankful That We Live In A Land Where Reason And Religion Are Friends And Allies In The Cause Of Liberty, Joined Against The Evils And Dangers Of The Day. And You Can Be Certain Of This: Any Believer In Religious Freedom, Any Person Who Has Knelt In Prayer To The Almighty, Has A Friend And Ally In Me. And So It Is For Hundreds Of Millions Of Our Countrymen: We Do Not Insist On A Single Strain Of Religion - Rather, We Welcome Our Nation's Symphony Of Faith.

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.

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.

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.

We Will Achieve North America Energy Independence By 2020, By Taking Full Advantage Of Our Oil, Our Gas, Our Coal, Our Renewables And Our Nuclear Power. Abundant, Inexpensive, Domestic Energy Will Not Only Create Energy Jobs, It Will Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs.

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.

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.

No Punishment For Women Who Have Partial Birth Abortions.

With These 11 Million People Here Illegally, Let's Have Them Registered, Know Who They Are, Those That Are Her Paying Taxes And Not Taking Government Benefits Should Begin A Process Towards Application For Citizenship.

I'm Severely Conservative.

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.

Obama Says We Need More Firemen, More Policemen, More Teachers. Did He Not Get The Message Of Wisconsin? The American People Did. It's Time For Us To Cut Back On Government And Help The American People.

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.

Fourth, To Assure Every Entrepreneur And Every Job Creator That Their Investments In America Will Not Vanish As Have Those In Greece, We Will Cut The Deficit And Put America On Track To A Balanced Budget.

I'm Not Going To Apologize For Being Successful.

Being Successful

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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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

Staple A Green Card To Their Diploma - Welcome To The United States Of America! We Want Those People In Our Country.

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

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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.

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When Sperm And Egg Unite, Something Goes From Inanimate To Animate. It Is Life.

Inanimate Objects

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

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.

The American Culture Promotes Personal Responsibility, The Dignity Of Work, The Value Of Education, The Merit Of Service, Devotion To A Purpose Greater Than Self, And At The Foundation, The Pre-eminence Of Family.

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

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Tomorrow We Begin A New Tomorrow.

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

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I Saw My Father March With Martin Luther King.

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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.

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.

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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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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Twenty Five Years In Business, Including Business With Other Nations, Competing With Companies Across The World, Has Given Me An Understanding Of What It Is That Makes America A Good Place To Grow And Add Jobs, And Why Jobs Leave America - Why Businesses Decide To Locate Here, And Why They Decide To Locate Somewhere Else.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

My View Is That We Have The Second Amendment Rights To Bear Arms, And In This Country My View Is That We Should Not Add New Legistlation. I Do Not Believe In New Laws Restricting Gun Ownership And Gun Use.

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

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

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

I Was A Severely Conservative Republican Governor.

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

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.

Three Years Ago, This Week, A Newly Elected President Obama Faced The American People And He Said, Look, If I Can't Turn This Economy Around In Three Years, I'll Be Looking At A One-term Proposition, And We're Here To Collect! You Know The Results. It's Been 35 Months Of Unemployment Above 8 Percent.

I'm Not Saying Anything One Way Or The Other About The Two Ballot Issues. I Am Not Speaking About The Particular Ballot Issues. Those Are Up To The People Of Ohio. But I Certainly Support The Efforts Of The Governor To Reign In The Scale Of Government. I Am Not Terribly Familiar With The Two Ballot Initiatives. But I Am Certainly Supportive Of The Republican Party's Efforts Here.

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

I Like Music Of Almost Any Kind - Including This.

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

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.

No Mandatory Prison Term For Employers Who Hire Illegals.

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

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.

This Is A Time Of Great Challenges For America, And I Pray That The President Will Be Successful In Guiding Our Nation.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I Have Some Friends Who Are Nascar Team Owners.

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.

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.

At The End Of The Day After A Few Speeches And A Lot Of Campaign Stops, I'm More Energized Than Drained.

The End Of The Day

Our Example - And Commitment - To Freedom Has Changed The World. But Along With The Genius Of Our Declaration Of Independence, Our Constitution, And Our Bill Of Rights, Is The Equal Genius Of Our Economic System. Our Founding Fathers Endeavored To Create A Moral And Just Society Like No Other In History, And Out Of That Grew A Moral And Just Economic System The Likes Of Which The World Had Never Seen. Our Freedom, What It Means To Be An American, Has Been Defined And Sustained By The Liberating Power Of The Free Enterprise System.

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].

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.

I Believe That The Faith Heritage Of This Country Is Actually A Very Important Part Of America's Culture.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Every Piece Of Legislation Which Came To My Desk In The Coming Years As The Governor, I Came Down On The Side Of Preserving The Sanctity Of Life.

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

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

I Understand What It Takes To - To Make A Bright And Prosperous Future For America Again. I - I Spent My Life In The Private Sector, Not In Government. I’m A Guy Who Wants To Help, With The Experience I Have, The American People.

Prosperous Future

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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'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.

I Pray. Prayer Is A Time To Connect With The Divine, But Also Time, I'm Sure, To Concentrate One's Thoughts, To Meditate, And To Imagine What Might Be.

Well That's A Bit Of A Question Like Saying, What Have You Learned In Life That Would Help You Lead? My Whole Life Has Been Learning To Lead, From My Parents, To My Education, To The Experience I Had In The Private Sector, To Helping Run The Olympics, And Then Of Course Helping Guide A State. Those Experiences In Totality Have Given Me An Understanding Of How America Works And How The Economy Works.

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

There’s No Legislation With Regards To Abortion That I’m Familiar With That Would Become Part Of My Agenda.

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.

Live For A Purpose Greater Than Yourself.

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've Said Time And Again, I'm A Pro-life Candidate, I'll Be A Pro-life President.

We Have Always Been A Nation That Has Celebrated Success Of Various Kinds. The Kid That Gets The Honor Roll, The Individual Worker That Gets A Promotion, The Person That Gets A Better Job. And In Fact, The Person That Builds A Business. And By The Way, If You Have A Business And You Started It, You Did Build It. And You Deserve Credit For That.

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.

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

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.

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.

In Recent Years, We Have Seen The United States Back Away From Pressuring The Castro Regime, Under The Misguided View That Placating Them With An Open Hand Would Yield Progress. That Naivete Has Invited Only More Cruelty And Oppression In Return.

A Competitive Primary Does Not Divide Us, It Prepares Us And We Will Win.

I Have Seen A Lot Of People, By The Way, Who Were Pro-life Become Pro-choice. No One Seems To Have Any Difficulty With That At All. That's Easily Accepted. But, If You Are Pro-choice And You Become Pro-life, There Are A Lot Of Folks, Particularly In The Media, Who Find That Unacceptable.

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.

Securing The Border Is Priority Number One.

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.

There Are A Number Of Things That Sound Good, But Frankly, We Just Can't Afford Them. And Obamacare Doesn't Sound Good And It's Not Affordable.

President Obama Wants To Put Free Enterprise On Trial.

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.

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

Everything Corporations Earn Ultimately Goes To People.

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.

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

What You Believe, What You Value, How You Live - Matters.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I Could Have Possibly Beaten Senator Mccain In The Primary. Then I Could Have Been The Candidate Who Lost To Barack Obama.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The Cuban People Still Live In Constant Fear Of A Brutal Totalitarian Regime That Has Demonstrated Time And Again Its Utter Disregard For Basic Human Dignity. The Fight For A Free Cuba Has Gone On For Far Too Long.

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

In Terms Of My Own Plans, I Anticipate Supporting One Of The Three, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio Or John Kasich As Our Nominee. If They Don't Become The Nominee, Then I'm Probably Going To Go To The Voting Booth And Find Someone Else Who's Running As A Conservative Or Perhaps Just Write In The Name Of Someone I Believe Should Become The President Of The United States, Who I Could Be Proud Of And Who I Believe Is Interested In Balancing The Budget, Keeping America Safe With A Strong Military, And Is Not Willing To Disparage Fellow Americans, Mexican-americans, Muslims, And So Forth.

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

Only Freedom Has Ever Been The Answer To Poverty.

I Supported The Assault Weapon Ban.

Assault Weapons

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 Am In Favor Of Stem-cell Research. I Am Not In Favor Of Creating New Human Embryos Through Cloning.

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. Today Steel Dynamics Is One Of The Largest Steel Producers In The United States.

It's Fashionable In Some Circles To Be Pessimistic About America, About Conservative Solutions, About The Republican Party. I Utterly Reject That Pessimism.

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 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

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.

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

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.

The Largest Portion Of Our State Budget Is Health And Human Services. It Will Grow By Approximately $500 Million. A Half A Billion Dollars Is A Very Big Number.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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