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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Oct 1, 2012

I spent 25 years in business. if I had a business executive come to me and say they want to spend a few hundred billion dollars to put a colony on the moon, I'd say, 'You're fired.'

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Oct 1, 2012

I spent 25 years in business. If I had a business executive come to me and say they wanted to spend a few hundred billion dollars to put a colony on the moon, I would say you're fired.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Sep 30, 2012

The devil's in the details. The angel is in the policy, which is creating more jobs.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Sep 30, 2012

The devil's in the details, though. What are we talking about? The mortgage deduction? The charitable deduction?

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Sep 24, 2012

The president's effort to take work requirement out of welfare is a calculated move, the same thing he did with regards to food stamps.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Sep 24, 2012

Taking work requirements out of government assistance is, in my opinion, a very bad course to take and creates a culture of dependency.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Sep 24, 2012

The president encourages government dependency, that he would rather see people who are dependent on government than go back into the work force.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Sep 24, 2012

We've been absolutely spot on. And any time there's anything that's been amiss, we correct it or remove it.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Sep 24, 2012

I think the president is also -- I disagree with the direction on the work requirement as it related to food stamps.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Sep 24, 2012

47 percent of Americans are dependent on government, see themselves as victims and will vote for President Obama no matter what.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Sep 23, 2012

Well, we do provide care for people who don't have insurance. People -- if someone has a heart attack, they don't sit in their apartment and die. We pick them up in an ambulance and take them to the hospital and give them care, and…

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Sep 23, 2012

Oh, sure. Look, it doesn't make a lot of sense for us to have millions and millions of people who have no health insurance and yet who can go to the emergency room and get entirely free care for which they have no responsibility…

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Sep 23, 2012

Actually, what we have right now is the road to socialism. What we have right now in health care is creeping socialism with more and more people going on Medicaid and Medicare, and those who don't have insurance, when they show up at the…

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Sep 23, 2012

It's the one at which he has been the most consistent, because he has always said that he is opposed to gay marriage.

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Jason Chaffetz
@jasonchaffetz· Republican · UT· Sep 19, 2012

I want the firewood records. Where are the firewood records?

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