John Sununu
John Sununu
John Edward Sununuis a former RepublicanUnited States Senator from New Hampshire. Sununu was the youngest member of the Senate for his entire six-year term. He is the son of former New Hampshire Governor and former White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu. On November 4, 2008, Sununu lost his re-election bid to former governor Jeanne Shaheen...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth10 September 1964
CountryUnited States of America
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Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.
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It doesn't take Warren Buffett to realize that when companies don't know what new rules will look like, it affects their ability to commit capital and create new jobs.
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President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.
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Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.
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Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will.
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Everyone has to understand this is a battle that has been fought for at least 20 years, and we have a very experienced hand handling it,
Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.
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The federal government should not be subsidizing profitable industries with taxpayer dollars,
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I loved my time in Congress, but people who spend all of their time planning to run for office have very few useful skills to deploy when they finally get there.
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I'm not sure what the FCC was thinking when they made up their 120-day timeframe,
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Taxes that discriminate against specific industries, even ones as popular as the oil industry at the current moment, are a bad idea.
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It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.
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Anytime we ask them to put national security ahead of a lot of domestic issues, we're asking them to step up and make a sacrifice.
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Social Security modernization will result in a retirement system that is stronger and more fiscally sound than the pay-as-you-go system we have today.