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President Obama believes that the way you grow our economy is by having the government find more reasons to hire more people. Mitt Romney believes the way you grow the economy is by having a private sector thrive so it can hire more people.

If the economy is still in a recession, it's very hard to see how Barack Obama can win re-election.

I think that's a harbinger something even bigger than this year's presidential election. And it's a harbinger for reform.

The biggest thing, in my opinion here, we should get rid of recalls. It's such a bad mechanism for good government. Doesn't matter what party you are. Run, serve your term, and take your stand when you're supposed to take your stand. And…

If you go back to when President Obama was elected, really on the anti-Bush, anti-Iraq mood of the country and a surge for President Obama. He has not had any good domestic election results since.

I have a hard time seeing big labor returning to Wisconsin this fall to put in a lot of effort for President Obama since he didn't show up there for them this year.

If you're the president, you want to make it all about Mitt Romney.

If you're Governor Romney, you want to make it a referendum about how bad the economy is.

If you're the president you want to make it all about Mitt Romney. I think that's why they're going so hard after Bain.

You can't avoid it, but that's what good campaigning comes down to.

Yes. And kudos to Bill. That's a very frank acknowledgment.

Barack Obama doesn't... have this distrust of all things private, private economy, the private sector.

He acts as if none of his policies have anything to do with the bad economy that we have right now.

I think when you look at his record in its totality and you look at the reputation he has as a fixer of economies, that's what this election is going to come down to.

I think this is a debate that actually helps Mitt Romney. The more this election is fought over economic matters, the economy...

We can't have a debt this high.

Barack Obama's issue today is debt. It's his job to deal with it.

If we don't do anything about our debt we're risking the full faith and credit of the United States.

Every president has to deal with the issues that are on the plate in the era in which they serve.

Barack Obama was a United States senator, he opposed raising the debt limit. He called it unpatriotic to raise the debt limit.

If we don't do anything about our debt, we're risking the full faith and credit of the United States.

But President Obama's budget, if he gets everything he's asked for, would increase it by $10 trillion, twice the amount.

Twenty-three million unemployed, 8.1 percent unemployment is pretty good?

If they're a vulture, the private sector is a vulture. That's the problem I have with President Obama at large. That's why the private economy is so hurting in this -- under the Obama years and the only group that's doing well is the…