Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
Willard Mitt Romneyis an American businessman and politician who served as the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and was the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 March 1947
CityDetroit, MI
CountryUnited States of America
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Kids in our urban schools, most of them minorities, are not succeeding at anywhere near the rate of their counterparts in the suburbs. And let me be clear: the failure of our urban schools to prepare our children today for the challenges of tomorrow is the civil rights issue of our generation.
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just wouldn't be tenable on more than an emergency basis.
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I think that the effort to continue to look for some law to somehow make violence go away is missing the point.
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I was very unhappy to hear that a job action by the Newton firefighters led to disruption in traffic and public safety,
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People who represent drunk drivers know that all you have to do is then go to the Registry of Motor Vehicles and show a hardship, and you get your license back,
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My red line is Iran may not have a nuclear weapon. It is inappropriate for them to have the capacity to terrorize the world. Iran with a nuclear weapon or with fissile material that can be given to Hezbollah or Hamas or others has the potential of not just destabilizing the Middle East.
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citizens should not be excluded from a decision as fundamental to society as the legal definition of marriage.
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In the future, if an event of that nature occurs, I can direct the state police to step in and clear the disturbance, and if necessary, make arrests. And that is exactly what I intend to do,
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He's shown some of the lessons that Texas has for the nation, and it's pretty impressive.
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I am pleased that the compromise amendment before the Constitutional Convention was defeated. Now, we can work to put on the ballot a simpler amendment that simply defines marriage as between a man and a woman.
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I commend the Senate president and the speaker on their leadership, ... I look forward to making Melanie's bill, Melanie's law.
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I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected.
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In my view, Russia has not been a particularly collaborative player on the world stage.
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I'm proud to be from Massachusetts, where John Kerry will be the junior senator until 2008. You see, I don't believe Senator Kerry is the leader our country needs.