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Mitt Romney

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Mitt Romney is an American politician and businessman currently serving as the junior United States senator from Utah, a position he has held since January 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Romney previously served as the governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. He gained national prominence as the Republican nominee for president in the 2012 election, where he focused on economic issues and healthcare reform. Throughout his career, Romney has been known for his moderate stance on various issues, including his support for certain aspects of healthcare and education reform.

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Feb 8, 2022

Anything that my party does that comes across as being stupid is not going to help us.

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Feb 7, 2022

Anything that my party does that comes across as being stupid is not going to help us.

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Feb 7, 2022

It could not have been a more inappropriate message. One, to sanction to people of character as they did. But number two, to suggest that a violent attack on the seat of democracy's legitimate political discourse, it's so far from accurate…

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Feb 4, 2022

Shame falls on a party that would censure persons of conscience.

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Feb 3, 2022

Shame falls on a party that would censure persons of conscience, who seek truth in the face of vitriol. Honor attaches to Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for seeking truth, even when doing so comes at great personal cost.

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Jan 31, 2022

There is a common characteristic of civilizations in decline and that ultimately collapse, and that is that they end up spending far more than they take in.

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Jan 31, 2022

We simply cannot keep going on spending trillions of dollars more than we take in without suffering high rates of inflation into the future and potentially losing our lead in the world.

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Jan 31, 2022

We need to increase the capacity in our highways or we are not going to see the economic growth which we projected as being part of this bill.

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Jan 31, 2022

This direction flies in the face of our intent and our needs.

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Jan 18, 2022

I have enjoyed the discussion which has been going on with regard to this legislation and have a couple of comments. One is, given the interest and the priority of and the importance of elections, it would have been helpful, prior to…

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Jan 16, 2022

He’s got to recognize that, when he was elected, people were not looking for him to transform America. They were looking to get back to normal, to stop the crazy.

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Jan 11, 2022

Do you agree that China is behaving in a malevolent and predatory way that represents a real threat to our interests here and around the world?

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Jan 11, 2022

I would note that China has a very comprehensive and, to date, pretty successful strategy to expand their influence in the world...

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Jan 11, 2022

I happen to believe that if we are truly interested in America's interests first, that means we need to be extensively involved in the world.

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Jan 11, 2022

I prepared some remarks to give this evening, but I had the occasion to watch President Biden as he spoke in Georgia just a few minutes ago, and he said quite a number of things that simply weren't true. He also accused a number of my good…

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Jan 11, 2022

I believe that USAID should continue to support the democratic aspirations of the increasing number of exiled Belarusians.

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Jan 11, 2022

I urge this committee and my Senate colleagues to support Meg Whitman's swift confirmation.

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Jan 11, 2022

I applaud this administration's steadfast commitment to keeping NATO membership open to those states that want to join.

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Jan 11, 2022

I think a number of us have been surprised and a little disoriented by the comments made by the current president of the Philippines, the current distance he has with the cause of freedom and his closeness to China.

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Jan 11, 2022

It is important to distinguish between the people of Russia and the Russian Federation.

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Jan 11, 2022

This is a critical time in the world's history. I met with leaders from an international body yesterday, and they said in some respects this is unprecedented.

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Jan 11, 2022

We have a strong foundation of shared values with the people of the Philippines.

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Jan 11, 2022

Putin may have calculated that his dishonorable, illegal invasion of Ukraine would divide NATO from its partners and close NATO's doors to new members, but his malicious war has only drawn us closer together.

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Dec 7, 2021

I do not know that we have laid out a comprehensive strategy for supporting the people of Taiwan and the capacity of the people to determine their own destiny, but if I were to jot down several of the elements that I think would be part of…

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Dec 7, 2021

One of the ones that we are succeeding on is the attitude of the people of Taiwan themselves.

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