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Rob Portman

Profession : Politician

Birth : December 19, 1955

President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do.

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Things are not getting better. They are getting worse. We need to elect Mitt Romney to turn things around.

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Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes.

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President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's.

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The way to an American economic comeback, the way to help those out of work today find a paycheck, is to unleash the forces of job creation in America. The source of new jobs isn't going to be the bureaucracies of Washington, but rather the creativity, ingenuity, and hard work of the American people.

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For all our current troubles, Americans are still the hardest working, most innovative people on the face of the earth. By trusting the American people, instead of government, we'll continue to surprise and inspire the world.

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When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and President Bush all believed we should have a lower rate for capital gains.

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What we need is fundamental tax reform.

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If you start very far to the left, it's harder to get to the middle.

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If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

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We have a paralysis in Washington that's not serving our country. We have to address these issues.

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This past year has been very turbulent for the Middle East, and my conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu strengthened my belief that we need to remain vigilant in our support of our critical ally.

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I think what people are looking for right now is not the kind of pizzazz and pop that perhaps we thought we got in 2008. Certainly, President Obama offered that. What they want now is someone who can work closely with Congress and get things done.

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Ohio chose the president in 2000 and 2004. The independent voters, the so-called swing voters, are the ones who make the difference.

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If you focus on what people care about, you have ideas. And people are looking for solutions.

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When you analyze all the data, there is a warming trend according to science. But the jury is out on the degree of how much is manmade.

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I like to think I am a serious legislator and trying to get things done. That's my goal in life, to get things done.

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I was fortunate, I guess, to be part of some good fiscal discipline in the Bush administration. The budget I put forward was a balanced budget.

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All of our sons and daughters ought to have the same opportunity to experience the joy and stability of marriage.

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No one should discriminate.

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