
I'm going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I'm going to stop other things. I like PBS. I love Big Bird. I actually like you too, but I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.
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I'm going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I'm going to stop other things. I like PBS. I love Big Bird. I actually like you too, but I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.

Clearly, in a campaign with hundreds, if not thousands of speeches and question and answer sessions, now and then you're going to say something that doesn't come out right. In this case, I said something that's just completely wrong.

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.

The unemployment rate as you noted this year has come down very, very slowly, but it's come down nonetheless. The reason it's come down this year is primarily due to the fact that more and more people have just stopped looking for work.

There are 47 percent of the people will vote for the president no matter what.

I'm going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I like PBS. I love Big Bird. I actually like you too, but I'm not going to keep on borrowing money from China to pay for it.

Those that are dependent upon government and those that think government's job is to redistribute, I'm not going to get them.

Mr. President, this is a big government scheme that doesn't work for trying to take over one-seventh of the GDP.

He laid out a systematic and devastating critique of Obama's record on health care, including the independent payment advisory boards, across-the-board cuts in services, including $716 billion in draconian cuts to providers, nursing homes…

He's consistently said he would repeal Obamacare and replace it with what? Replace it with a conservative reform alternative.

What you had last night was one of the most clearly blatantly dishonest performances by someone running for the presidency of the United States I think we have ever seen in modern time.

Mr. President, you're entitled as the president to your own airplane and to your own house but not to your own facts.

Look, I'm not looking to cut massive taxes.

I'm not going to reduce the share of taxes paid by high-income people.

I'm going to cut the deficit in half. Unfortunately, he doubled it.

My plan has five basic parts: One, get us energy independent, North American energy independent.

Under the President's policies, middle-income Americans have been buried.