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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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 Don't Want To Be Like Europe. I Want To Be Like America.

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.

No Mandatory Prison Term For Employers Who Hire Illegals.

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.

This, In My View, Is The Highest Responsibility Of The President Of The United States, Which Is To Maintain The Safety Of The American People.

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

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.

The Embassy In Cairo Put Out A Statement After Their Grounds Had Been Breached. ... An Apology For America's Values Is Never The Right Course. ... The Statement That Came From The Administration Was - Was A Statement Which Is Akin To Apology And I Think Was A - A Severe Miscalculation.

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

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

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

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].

I Never Really Called Myself Pro-choice.

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

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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.

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

Detroit Needs A Turnaround, Not A Check.

In France, For Instance, I'm Told That Marriage Is Now Frequently Contracted In Seven-year Terms Where Either Party May Move On When Their Term Is Up. How Shallow And How Different From The Europe Of The Past.

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.

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

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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.

I Like Pbs. I Love Big Bird ... But I'm Not Going To Keep On Spending Money On Things To Borrow Money From China To Pay For It.

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.

President Obama Orders Religious Organizations To Violate Their Conscience. I Will Defend Religious Liberty And Overturn Regulations That Trample On Our First Freedom.

I Was Too Important To Go To Vietnam.

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.

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.

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

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.

Who Let The Dogs Out? Who, Who.

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

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.

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

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Education Is The Investment Our Generation Makes In The Future.

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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 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.

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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.

I'm Not Going To Apologize For Being Successful.

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The President (george W. Bush) Says Let's Have Private Accounts, And Take The Surplus Money That's Being Gathered Now In Social Security And Put It Into Private Accounts. That Works.

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We Should Have Communicated To Iran That We Are Prepared, That We Are Considering Military Options. They're Not Just On The Table, They Are In Our Hands.

That's A Big Lava Lamp. Congratulations.

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Pakistan Is A Nation, Which, If It Falls Apart, If It Becomes A Failed State, There Are Nuclear Weapons There And You've Got Terrorists There Who Could Grab Their Hands Onto Those Nuclear Weapons.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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There's No Question But That A Nuclear Iran, A Nuclear-capable Iran Is Unacceptable To America. It Presents A Threat Not Only To Our Friends But Ultimately A Threat To Us To Have Iran Have Nuclear Material, Nuclear Weapons That Could Be Used Against Us Or Used To Be Threatening To Us.

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.

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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.

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

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.

Deadly Assault Weapons Have No Place In Massachusetts.

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I Want To Help Small Businesses Grow And Thrive. I Know How To Make That Happen. I Spent My Life In The Private Sector. I Know Why Jobs Come And Why They Go.

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

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

Business And Growing Jobs Is About Taking Risk, Sometimes Failing, Sometimes Succeeding, But Always Striving. It Is About Dreams. Usually, It Doesn't Work Out Exactly As You Might Have Imagined. Steve Jobs Was Fired At Apple. He Came Back And Changed The World.

Mom And Dad Were Married 64 Years. And If You Wondered What Their Secret Was, You Could Have Asked The Local Florist - Because Every Day Dad Gave Mom A Rose, Which He Put On Her Bedside Table. That's How She Found Out What Happened On The Day My Father Died - She Went Looking For Him Because That Morning, There Was No Rose.

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

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

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

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Flexibility. Oh, That's Pretty Clearly Saying That What Donald Trump Said To The New York Times Is Very Different Than What He's Saying To The American People. He Is Not The Real Deal. He Is A Phony.

I Believe That Assad Must Go. I Believe He Will Go. But I Believe - We Want To Make Sure That America Has The Relationships Of Friendship With The People That Take His Place, Steps That In The Years To Come We See Syria As A Friend, And Syria As A Responsible Party In The Middle East.

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

Mr. Chairman, Delegates. I Accept Your Nomination For President Of The United States Of America. I Do So With Humility, Deeply Moved By The Trust You Have Placed In Me. It Is A Great Honor. It Is An Even Greater Responsibility.

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

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

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

I Would Cap The Amount Of Federal Government Can Spend At 20 Percent Of The Economy. Bring It Back To 20 Percent Or Lower. And Say, We Are Not Going To Spend Above That Level. Democrats, They Want To Raise Your Taxes And Spend More And More And Turn Us Into An Economy Which Is No Longer Driven By The Private Sector.

And I Hear From Time To Time People Say, Hey, Wait A Second, We Have Civil Liberties We Have To Worry About. But Don't Forget The Most Important Civil Liberty I Expect From My Government Is My Right To Be Kept Alive, And That's What We're Going To Have To Do.

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

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.

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's No Question Raising The Minimum Wage Excessively Causes A Loss Of Jobs.

Peta Is Not Happy That My Dog Likes Fresh Air.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

President Obama Trusts In The Wisdom Of Government. I Put My Trust In The Ingenuity And Creativity And Commitment To Hard Work Of The American People.

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.

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.

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

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

Corporations Are People, My Friend.

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.

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.

In The Political Environment That Exists Today, The Opposition Research Of The Obama Campaign Is Looking For Anything They Can Use To Distract From The Failure Of The President To Reignite Our Economy. And Im Simply Not Enthusiastic About Giving Them Hundreds Or Thousands Of More Pages To Pick Through, Distort, And Lie About.

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

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

On Our Watch, The Conversation With A Would-be Suicide Bomber Will Not Begin With The Words, 'you Have The Right To Remain Silent.'

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 Just Think The American People Had Expected That The President Of The United States Would Be Able To Describe What He's Going To Do In The Next Four Years. But He Can't. He Can't Even Explain What He's Done In The Last Four Years.

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

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 Believe Abortion Should Be Safe And Legal In This Country. I Believe That Since Roe V Wade Has Been The Law For 20 Years That We Should Sustain And Support It. And I Sustain And Support That Law And The Right Of A Woman To Make That Choice. We Can Believe What We Want, But Will Will Not Force Our Beliefs On Others On That Matter. And You Will Not See Me Waivering On That.

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

With The Arab Spring, Came A Great Deal Of Hope That There Would Be A Change Towards More Moderation, And Opportunity For Greater Participation On The Part Of Women In Public Life, And In Economic Life In The Middle East. But Instead, We've Seen In Nation After Nation, A Number Of Disturbing Events.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Outlaw Embryo Farming, But Allow Using Surplus Embryos.

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.

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

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

I'm Not A Big-game Hunter. I've Always Been A Rodent And Rabbit Hunter. Small Varmints, If You Will.

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

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.

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

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.

President Obama Wants To Put Free Enterprise On Trial.

The Path I Lay Out Is Not One Paved With Ever Increasing Government Checks And Cradle To Grave Assurance That Government Will Always Be The Solution. If This Election Is A Bidding War For Who Can Promise The Most Goodies And The Most Benefits, I'm Not Your President. You Have That President Today.

America's Military Is Second To None In The World. We're Blessed With Terrific Soldiers, And Extraordinary Technology And Intelligence. But The Idea Of A Trillion Dollars In Cuts Through Sequestration And Budget Cuts To The Military Would Change That.

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

America Is The Hope Of The Earth.

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.

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.

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

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.

Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.

Conservative Values

Opportunity Expands When There Is Excellence And Choice In Education.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

And A Special Thank You To The Citizens Of Massachusetts: You Are Paying All The Taxes, Creating All The Jobs, Raising All The Children. This Government Is Yours. Thank You For Letting Me Serve You. I Love This Job.

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.

I Don't Want To See Trickle Down Racism. I Don't Want To See A President Of The United States Saying Things Which Change The Character Of The Generations Of Americans That Are Following. Presidents Have An Impact On The Nature Of Our Nature. And Trickle Down Racism, Trickle Down Bigotry, And Trickle Down Misogyny, All These Extraordinarily Dangerous To The Heart And Character Of America.

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

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.

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

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

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

I Have Some Friends Who Are Nascar Team Owners.

The Words Spoken By The Leader Of The Free World Can Expand The Frontiers Of Freedom Or Shrink Them. When Ronald Reagan Called On Gorbachev To 'tear Down This Wall,' A Surge Of Confidence Rose That Would Ultimately Breach The Bounds Of The Evil Empire.

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.

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

People Hear From Donald Trump That He's Such An Extraordinary Success. They Didn't Know About Trump Airlines And Trump Mortgages And Trump Vitamin Network And Trump Steaks And Trump Taj Mahal. They Didn't Realize A Lot Of Small People Have Been Crushed By Donald Trump's Rise To Become A Very Wealthy Man, Successful Financially, But This Is A Guy Who Has Not Been A Uniform Success.

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.

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.

Isn't It Fitting That So Many Of Those Who Have Contempt For The Private Sector Will Soon Find Themselves Back In 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.

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.

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.

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

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

Dangerous World

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

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.

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

I Understand How Difficult It Can Be For An African-american In Today’s Society. In Fact, I Can Relate To Black People Very Well Indeed. My Ancestors Once Owned Slaves, And It Is In My Lineage To Work Closely With The Black Community. However, Just Because They Were Freed Over A Century Ago Doesn’t Mean They Can Now Be Freeloaders. They Need To Be Told To Work Hard, And The Incentives Just Aren’t There For Them Anymore. When I’m President I Plan To Work Closely With The Black Community To Bring A Sense Of Pride And Work Ethic Back Into View For Them.

The America We All Know Has Been A Story Of The Many Becoming One, Uniting To Preserve Liberty, Uniting To Build The Greatest Economy In The World, Uniting To Save The World From Unspeakable Darkness.

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.

People Are Taking A Closer Look At Donald Trump. I Think The Best Look They Got Was At The Last Debate. I Think Ted Cruz And Marco Rubio Prosecuted Their Case Effectively. Donald Doesn't Have Some Great Answers. When They Talk, For Instance, About Immigration And Releasing Those Tapes From The New York Times, We Began Talking About Flexibility And Immigration.

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.

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.

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

I've Always Opposed Gay Marriage. I Believe That We Should Provide Equal Rights To People Regardless Of Their Sexual Orientation But I Do Not Believe That Marriage Should Be Between Two People Of The Same Gender.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

What America Needs Is Jobs. Lots Of Jobs.

I Will Begin My Presidency With A Jobs Tour. President Obama Began With An Apology Tour. America, He Said, Had Dictated To Other Nations. No Mr. President, America Has Freed Other Nations From Dictators.

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 Will Get America Working Again And See Rising Take-home Pay Again.

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

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

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