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Mitt Romney

Profession : Politician

Birth : March 12, 1947

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.

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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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President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their team have failed the American people, and that is why their majority will soon be out the door.

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Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

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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 will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

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Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

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On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'

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The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

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The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

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Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.

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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.

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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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We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.

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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.

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We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.

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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.

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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.

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You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

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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.

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