Mitt Romney

There are some who look at China and say it is a juggernaut. There is no way to slow it down.

We have to stand with our allies and our friends to uphold a free and open Indo-Pacific, including by maintaining America's commercial and military superiority in 21st century technologies.

I would not want to see a circumstance where we, in our nation, took action, which would then not be matched by other nations and put our enterprises at a competitive disadvantage.

Beijing proclaims that the East is rising, and the West is in decline. I am confident in our own country.

The United States has to proceed from a position of strength and pursue intense diplomacy in all these matters.

Russia, in particular, poses an ongoing threat to Europe and to places around the world.

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I agree it is transformational. I am not sure it is transformational in the right way.

that is not transformational, that is bait and switch.

any promises about not raising taxes on people making under $400,000 today, those are going to expire as well.

if that is the goal for all these programs, not the 5-years, 6 years and 7 years that is in the legislation, how are you going to pay for it?

Clearly if you can get paid $300 per child, even though the child is here illegally and you are here illegally, that is going to encourage people to come here.

Well, the $3.5 trillion number is a shocking figure.

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I thought President Trump was wrong to enter into an agreement to withdraw. I thought President Biden was wrong to enter into an agreement--or to continue with that agreement to withdraw.

You said, yesterday, that you inherited a date, but in fact, you did not inherit the date.

I, for one, thought some years ago that we should withdraw from Afghanistan. The conditions that I saw in the ensuing years convinced me that I was wrong.

I appreciate your willingness to change your point of view in part because of the conditions that have developed in the most recent weeks.

I guess I would like to focus more on the moral stain of leaving people behind and understand what we can do to make sure that we are not leaving people behind.

I would like to associate myself with the comments that Senator Rubio made about planning for a potential immediate collapse of the Afghan Government and security forces.

Given that response, I know that previously the position of the Administration and the State Department was that the 2001 AUMF no longer played a role of significance.

my amendment is very simple. It eliminates the instruction to the Senate Finance Committee whereupon people would be able to have their taxes increased. If you want to have taxes go up in this country on corporations or people, vote…

I call up amendment No. 3652 and ask that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Utah [Mr. Romney] proposes an amendment numbered 3652. The amendment…

it is said that politics is the art of the possible, and I am afraid that, over time, someone might argue that politics has become the art of confusion. There is so much confusion that goes on around issues of significance that in some…

the remarks of my colleague from North Dakota have inspired me to stand and join him; and also the fact that we are in a room of great significance and silence reigns, and I hate just to fill it with words, but I think the topic we are…