Mitt Romney Quotes
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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.
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We have weakened our economy in America. We need a strong economy.
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I don't want to be like Europe. I want to be like America.
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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.
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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.
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I love America. I'm concerned about America and I believe the heart and soul of conservatives and Republicans recognize that the principles that Donald Trump is talking about have nothing to do with conservatism, nothing to do with keeping America strong.
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And wages - we'll see the end of this decline we're having. The median income in America is down 10% in just the last four years. That's got to stop. We've got to start seeing rising wages and job growth.
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Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.
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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.
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We have an opportunity to have real leadership. America's going to have that kind of leadership and continue to promote principles of peace to make a world a safer place and make people in this country more confident that their future is secure.
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Live for a purpose greater than yourself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If anyone accuses me of lying, I'll simply say I'm not lying, which is just an extension of the overall lying strategy.
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When government is... bailing out banks... we have every good reason to be alarmed.
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America has to stand by our allies. I think the tension that existed between Israel and the United States was very unfortunate.
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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.
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I believe very firmly in the principle of free agency - people making their own decisions and doing what they think is right.
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The middle income families in America have been crushed over the last four years.
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I don't like vampires personally. I don't know any.
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PETA is not happy that my dog likes fresh air.
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You had your turn madam, let me have mine ... Let me complete. I'm sorry, it's my turn.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world.
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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.
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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.
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If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him.
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