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"What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?"
"Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits."
"We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past."
"If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow."
"The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst."
"If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already."
"I voted to send people to war."
"Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity."
"If you don't want to use your tax credit to go by health insurance, you don't have to. If you don't want to buy this plan, you want to buy that plan, go for it, it's your choice. It's called freedom. It's called free market health care."
"A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours."
"Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'"
"I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power."
"We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles."
"We`re putting ourselves - we`re basically double taxing made in America products. And so what we`re saying is let`s equalize this so that we`re on a level playing field, so that American-made goods and services are on a level playing field with the rest of the world."
"I don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life."
"Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism."
"Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer. Yet by his own decisions, President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined. One president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt."
"I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready."
"That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners."
"PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts."