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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Aug 15, 2012

Harry Reid's charge is totally false. I'm sure waiting for Harry to put up who it was that told him what he says they told him. I don't believe it for a minute, by the way.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Aug 15, 2012

I did go back and look at my taxes and over the past 10 years, I never paid less than 13 percent. The most recent year is 13.6 percent or something like that. So I've paid taxes every single year. Harry Reid's charge is totally false.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Aug 15, 2012

We speak with exactly the same policy today. He and I have exactly the same policy. The place that there's a big difference is between myself and Paul Ryan and the president. The president has a very different plan.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Aug 15, 2012

The president's plan cuts Medicare -- excuse me. Well, let's see. There we go -- by $716 billion. Cut. In addition, the trustees of Medicare estimate that approximately four million people will lose their coverage under Medicare…

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Aug 12, 2012

We also shouldn't cut Medicare to pay for Obamacare to the tune of some $700 billion. That's what -- that's what the president does to Medicare, to current recipients of Medicare. He cuts the payments that go to Medicare by $700 billion…

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Aug 9, 2012

It's time for harry to put up or shut up. Harry is going to have to describe who it is he spoke with. Because of course, that's totally and completely wrong. It's untrue, dishonest and incorrect. It's wrong. So I'm looking forward to have…

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Aug 9, 2012

I don't agree with all the people who support me and my guess is they don't all agree with everything I believe in.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Aug 9, 2012

You know, it's interesting, too, the various fact checkers look at some of these charges in the Obama ads and they say they're wrong and inaccurate and yet they keep running them.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Aug 9, 2012

Sometimes I just don't think he understands what it takes to help people. I know he wants to help. He doesn't know what he's got to do.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Aug 9, 2012

With a very careful executive action, he removed the requirement of work from welfare. It is wrong to make any change that would make America more of a nation of government dependency. We must restore and I will restore work into welfare.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Aug 9, 2012

I would like to have a provision in the Constitution that... the president has to have spent at least three years working in business before he can become president of the United States.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Aug 9, 2012

Sometimes, I just don't think he understands what it takes to help people. I know he wants to help, but he doesn't know what he's got to do.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Aug 9, 2012

It's time for Harry to put up or shut up. Harry is going to have to describe who it is he spoke with. Because of course that's totally and completely wrong. It's untrue, dishonest and inaccurate. It's wrong.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Aug 7, 2012

With a very careful executive action, he removed the requirement of work from welfare. It is wrong to make any change that would make America more of a nation of government dependency. We must restore and I will restore work into welfare.

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

It is time for Harry to put up or shut up. Harry is going to have to describe who it is he spoke with because of course that is totally and completely wrong. It's untrue, dishonest, and inaccurate. It's wrong. So I'm looking forward to…

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Mike Lee
@mikelee· Republican · UT· Jul 31, 2012

The fact that we have a higher incarceration rate in the United States generally does not necessarily mean that we are just tougher on people.

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Mike Lee
@mikelee· Republican · UT· Jul 31, 2012

How does that end up impacting the Department of Justice's ability to do other things that it needs to do?

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