Rob Portman Quotes

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Rob Portman

Profession : Politician

Birth : December 19, 1955

We want more of our products going overseas, but the trick is to have a level playing field.

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I'm focused, as you can tell, on 2014 and on doing my job as a senator.

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I don't know what's going to happen specifically on votes on Obamacare. I suspect we'll vote to repeal early to put on record the fact that we Republicans think it's a bad policy, and we think it's hurting our constituents, and we think health care cost should be going down, not up.

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I'm very happy where I am: I'm a senator from Ohio.

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I'm on the Armed Services Committee, which gives me the opportunity to get involved on some of these international issues. My focus is, as you know, on the economic issues and budget issues.

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My view is that I'm best able to serve my state and my country where I am.

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My dad did everything he could. It was a start-up, and the banks didn't want to lend him enough money, so he mortgaged our house.

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No one in my family had ever been in politics. My dad thought it was something that got in the way.

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Out of college, I had two job offers. One was to be a canoe instructor for Outward Bound. And frankly, that would have paid better than the job I took, working on a policy commission in Washington that focused on immigration policy and refugees. But that decision made all the difference.

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We must make clear that if you come here illegally, you will be sent back home.

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Senator Brown and I have different philosophies as represented in our different ratings: I am a conservative, and he is a liberal.

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We need to figure out how to connect people to jobs.

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One of the big issues in Ohio and elsewhere is people do not have the skills to take advantage of the openings that are out there.

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We need a broader party. If we're not doing better with millennials and women and Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans and others, we will have a tough time being a majority party at the national level.

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Kyrie Irving could use a little help.

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The wealthy are doing just fine in the Obama economy.

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Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress believed we could spend our way to prosperity, and I guess they still do.

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Let's replace Obamacare with reforms that put you back in charge of your own healthcare.

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Decisions about your health should be between you and your doctor, not a bureaucrat and an insurance company. Let's expand choice rather than limiting it. Let's create jobs instead of destroying them. And let's bring down the costs instead of driving them up.

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I'm not here today to tell you government doesn't have a role to play. It does, but it needs to be the right role.

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