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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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Mar 21, 2012

Apparently, the slipping poll numbers have convinced him to announce the lower half of that pipeline. If we can get his poll numbers just a little lower, we may be able to get the other side, too. So let's get that job done.

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Mar 20, 2012

The issues I'm running on will be exactly the same. I'm running as a conservative Republican. I was a conservative Republican governor. I'll be running as a conservative Republican nominee for president.

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Mar 19, 2012

And three years of Barack Obama have brought us fewer jobs and shrinking paychecks, but many of us believed we were in danger of losing something even more than the value of our homes and our 401(k)s. After years of too many apologies and…

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Mar 15, 2012

This is a president who doesn't like oil, coal, natural gas, Nuclear -- we are seeing some of the results of that even if you look at gasoline prices today.

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Mar 12, 2012

We're counting up the delegates for the convention, and it looks good. And we're counting down the days November, and that looks even better.

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Mar 8, 2012

Don't forget back in January when the president had just been reelected or elected for the first time. He said that if we let him borrow $787 billion he would hold unemployment below 8 percent.

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Mar 6, 2012

If I'm away from Ann for longer than a week or so, I get off course. She has to bring me back and moderate me down a bit.

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Mar 5, 2012

Just this last week, this same administration said that churches in the institutions they run such as schools and let's say adoption agencies, hospitals, that they have to provide for their employees free of charge contraceptives. Think…

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Mar 5, 2012

I want to congratulate Newt Gingrich on a good night in Georgia and Rick Santorum on his good night and Ron Paul for his steadfast commitment to our constitution.

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Mar 5, 2012

Tonight, we have taken one more step towards restoring the promise of tomorrow. Tomorrow we wake up and we start again. And the next day we'll do the same. And so we'll go day by day, step by step, door by door. Heart to heart. There will…

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Mar 5, 2012

To the millions of Americans who look around and can only see jobs they can't get, and bills that they can't pay, I have a message. You have not failed. You have a president that's failed you and that's going to change.

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Mar 5, 2012

We're going to take your vote and take that victory all the way to the White House.

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Mar 4, 2012

And, Mr. President, one more thing. Why didn't you call me when you were working on this thing? Why didn't you pick up the phone and say, is what you have done there in Massachusetts a good model for the nation?

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Mar 4, 2012

And Mr. President, one more thing. Why didn't you call me when you're working on this thing? Why didn't you pick up the phone and say, is what you've done in Massachusetts a good model for the nation? And I would have said, no, no. What…

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Feb 23, 2012

It's that tone deafness that has followed him along this trail where he doesn't realize that actually most people just has one car.

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Feb 21, 2012

If you want a fiscal conservative, you can't vote for Rick Santorum because he's not.

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Feb 21, 2012

I'm sorry. The 6,000 earmarks that were put in place under the speaker's term, for instance, were oftentimes tagged onto other bills.

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Feb 21, 2012

I would put a ban on earmarks. I think it opens the door to excessive spending.

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Feb 21, 2012

That was an American promise and it's been broken by this president.

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