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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We are spending too much money. Our discretionary spending - taking out Iraq and mandatory spending - grew 49 percent in four years. Our debt has grown. Pork is always dispiriting. But pork being spent at a time of war is particularly dispiriting.
family time
I have a big family, and I spend a lot of time with them.
cut federal government time waste
It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government.
years people tough-times
I served as a missionary for my church. I served as a pastor in my congregation for about 10 years. I've sat across the table from people who were out of work and worked with them to try and find new work or to help them through tough times.
crush hard-times people
The people who are having the hard time right now are middle-income Americans. Under the president's policies, middle-income Americans have been buried. They're just being crushed. Middle-income Americans have seen their income come down by $4,300. This is a tax in and of itself. I'll call it the economy tax. It's been crushing.
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this water was more than had been expected or anticipated.
obamacare
Through pro-growth policies, by abolishing Obamacare and eliminating other Obama-imposed impediments to economic growth, we will get our economy back on track.
We expect candor and transparency from the president, from the administration.
anxious people receiving whether
We're very anxious to know whether we're going to be receiving people or not,
save today
what we are doing today will save people's lives.
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What began as a serious rain storm is now becoming a much more threatening condition,
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I'd like my grandkids to be able to watch PBS. But I'm not willing to borrow money from China, and make my kids have to pay the interest on that, and my grandkids, over generations, as opposed to saying to PBS, 'Look, you're going to have to raise more money from charitable contributions or from advertising.'
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I am concerned that ... locating two fighters in a neighboring state is impractical and would not provide ample cover for this region.
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move into the next area of education reform.