"We`re talking about bilateral agreements with other countries in Asia, so that we can expand our influence and get countries to play by our set of rules. That`s to me is something that`s really important."
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"We can't keep measuring success by how much money are we throw at programs. We have to measure success as, 'Is it working?'"
"My state, Scott Walker, our governors, reformed Medicaid so it actually works, so that the doctors will take the program."
"If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control."
"We`re not going to end the Medicaid. We`re going to give the governors more control and leeway to bring innovative reforms to make Medicaid work."
"When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do."
"We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years."
"In Pennsylvania, 38 percent of Pennsylvania seniors chose to get their Medicare from a plan called Medicare Advantage. It's their choice. Forty-seven percent of them are going to lose it under 'Obamacare' according to Medicare by 2017."
"Our goal is to make sure that everyone in this country has access to affordable healthcare, including people with pre-existing conditions. So they can access affordable coverage. That is not what you have with Obamacare."
"Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups."
"Film is the packaging of information in cans. Videotape is involved with the feeding back of process. Film rips information away from the situation for use elsewhere. Videotape can be fed back into a given situation and enrich experience. Film extends man as a spectator. Videotape extends man as a cybernator. Film imports information. Videotape implodes indigenous data."
"Our point is we don`t want to sit in the government and tell you what you have to buy [as a health insurance]. We want to make this work so that you have choices, so that we have more competition."
"When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would we rehire Barack Obama now?"
"After four years of getting the run-around, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney."
"Under the Barack Obama rules, if you wanted to help the military, if you wanted a pay raise for the soldiers, if you wanted to buy new airplanes and new ships and more munitions, a dollar for that, you had to have a dollar domestic spending. We just broke that parity. That's the biggest victory we could have had: $25 billion year over year for our military, to begin to rebuild our military, without that kind of corresponding increase in domestic discretionary spending."
"We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans."
"And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivism-you can't find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand."
"The appointment of a special counsel, I think, helps assure people and the Justice Department that they are going to go do their jobs independently and thoroughly, which is what we called for all along."
"The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?"
"With all their attack ads, the President is just throwing away money...and he's pretty experienced at that."