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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.

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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.

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China Is Stealing Our Intellectual Property, Our Patents, Our Designs, Our Technology, Hacking Into Our Computers, Counterfeiting Our Goods.

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Federal Funding For Cities Who Consider Themselves Sanctuary Cities Should Be Reduced.

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.

America Is The Hope Of The Earth.

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

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.

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

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

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

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Corporations Are People, My Friend... Of Course They Are. Everything Corporations Earn Ultimately Goes To People. Where Do You Think It Goes? Whose Pockets? Whose Pockets? People's Pockets. Human Beings, My Friend.

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Iraq Is Fragile And May Fall Back Into A Devastating Setting. We're Not Making The Kind Of Progress In Afghanistan That Had Been Promised. And Our Esteem Around The World Has Fallen. I Can't Think Of A Major Country. It's Hard To Think Of A Single Country That Has Greater Respect And Admiration For America Today Than It Did Five Years Ago When Barack Obama Became President. And That's A Very Sad, Unfortunate State Of Affairs.

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.

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

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

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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.

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Neil Armstrong Today Takes His Place In The Hall Of Heroes. The Moon Will Miss Its First Son Of Earth.

I Don't Like To Have The Federal Government Start Pushing Its Weight Deeper And Deeper Into Our Schools. Let The States And Localities Do That.

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Gasoline Prices

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

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I Was A Severely Conservative Republican Governor.

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This Nation Is The Hope Of The Earth.

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

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I'm A Son Of Detroit. I Was Born In Detroit.

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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.

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The Promise Of America Has Always Been That If You Worked Hard, Had The Right Values, Took Some Risks, That There Was An Opportunity To Build A Better Life For Your Family And For Your Next Generation.

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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 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.

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Only Freedom Has Ever Been The Answer To Poverty.

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.

I Saw My Father March With Martin Luther King.

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

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.

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 Not Running, I'm Not Planning On Running, And I've Got Nothing New On That Story.

President Obama Instituted The Most Anti-growth, Anti-investment, Anti-jobs Measures That We Have Seen In Our Lifetime. Now He Called His Agenda Ambitious, I Call It Reckless.

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If We Become One Of Those Societies That Attack Success, Why Not Come As Certain There Will Be A Lot Less Success? And That's Not Who We Are.

Dependency Is Death To Initiative, To Risk-taking And Opportunity.

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

A Person Should Not Be Elected Because Of His Faith Nor Should He Be Rejected Because Of His Faith.

No Mandatory Prison Term For Employers Who Hire Illegals.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I See An America Where Poverty Is Defeated By Opportunity, Not Enabled By A Government Check.

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

I Believe Marriage Is A Relationship Between A Man And A Woman.

Funny Relationship

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

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

For Those Who Have Come Here Illegally, They Might Have A Transition Time To Allow Them To Set Their Affairs In Order. And Then Go Back Home And Get In Line With Everybody Else. And If They Get In Line And They Apply To Become A Citizen And Get A Green Card, They Will Be Treated Like Everybody Else.

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.

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.

I Bathe In Statistics.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Peta Is Not Happy That My Dog Likes Fresh Air.

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.

When You Raise Taxes On Small Business, From 35% To 40%, You Will Kill Jobs.

The Strength And Power And Goodness Of America Has Always Been Based On The Strength And Power And Goodness Of Our Communities, Our Families, Our Faiths. That Is The Bedrock Of What Makes America, America. In Our Best Days, We Can Feel The Vibrancy Of America's Communities, Large And Small.

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

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.

I Didn't Talk To Anybody And Say, "i'm Going To Do A Speech, Do You Go Some Ideas?" This Is Something I Did On My Own Because I Care Very Deeply About The Country.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The Greatest Threat That The World Faces Is A Nuclear Iran...

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.

When We Have Had In The Past Programs That Have Said That The People Who Come Here Illegally Are Going To Get To Stay Illegally For The Rest Of Their Life, That's Going To Only Encourage More People To Come Here Illegally.

Religious Liberty Is The First Freedom In Our Constitution. And Whether The Cause Is Justice For The Persecuted, Compassion For The Needy And The Sick, Or Mercy For The Child Waiting To Be Born, There Is No Greater Force For Good In The Nation Than Christian Conscience In Action.

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.

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.

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

Detroit Needs A Turnaround, Not A Check.

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

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.

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.

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.

Frankly, I Was Born With A Silver Spoon.

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.

My Wife Drives A Couple Of Cadillacs.

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