“I think we can all unequivocally say in 2026, football is not going anywhere.”
“When giant corporations and Wall Street investors buy up all the fire truck manufacturers, it’s a threat to public safety.”
“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
“It is imperative that FEMA helps communities quickly respond to wildfires and increase their resilience to future wildfire disasters”
“They are picking houses the way you pick tomatoes at the grocery store.”
“Protecting and defending innocent life is and remains important to our Legislature, governor, attorney general and citizens.”

Political Quotes

Rob Portman

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Rob Portman is an American politician and attorney currently serving as the junior United States senator from Ohio, a position he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Portman previously represented Ohio's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2005. He also served as the U.S. Trade Representative under President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2006, where he focused on trade policy and international negotiations.

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Apr 22, 2013

This is the same bill basically that we had before the committee last year.

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Apr 22, 2013

I also want to thank Chairman Udall for being willing to take on this task.

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Apr 22, 2013

It's something that I think deserves our support as well. Very inspirational words that Senator Lieberman and I spoke on the Floor of the Senate last year.

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Apr 11, 2013

today I wish to recognize the installation of an Ohio Historical Society marker commemorating President Lincoln's funeral train stop in Urbana, OH on April 29, 1865. Urbana was one of the Ohio communities President Lincoln's funeral train…

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Apr 10, 2013

Instead, it is the spending. That must be addressed. I say to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, let's work together to get America back on track, to solve this problem which, if we do not deal with it, will not allow our economy to…

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Apr 10, 2013

I am disappointed, as you can imagine, on that front, because I do not think it is up to the task that we have before us, which I think is an urgent one.

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Apr 10, 2013

today I wish to honor the commencement of the Captain Jonathan D. Grassbaugh Veterans Project. CPT Jonathan Grassbaugh and three other soldiers were killed in action in Iraq on April 7, 2007, when an insurgent detonated a 500-pound…

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Apr 10, 2013

today, finally, we are going to see the President's budget--so we are told. When we look over the history of the last few decades, never has there been a budget submitted so late. The budget is due in February, as we know. With the…

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Apr 10, 2013

this budget does not make a dent in the huge problem we all know we face: historic levels of debt and unacceptable deficits

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Apr 9, 2013

Can you imagine a balanced budget today?

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Apr 9, 2013

Your measure of success will be sort of an unusual one, which is not how popular you are but how unpopular you are among your Cabinet colleagues.

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