"I believe in making government as Ronald Reagan said. Not the distributor of gifts and privilege but once again the protector of our liberties."
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"There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition."
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"I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader."
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"Our number one responsibility is to protect the homeland."
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"I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition."
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"My dad died when I was young. He was a good and decent man. There are a few things he would say that have just always stuck with me. He'd say, "Son, you're either part of the problem or part of the solution." Well, regrettably, President Obama has become part of the problem, and Mitt Romney is the solution."
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"Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on."
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"I'm very proud of my pro-life record, and I've always adopted the idea that, the position that the method of conception doesn't change the definition of life."
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"Was it a good idea to spend taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland, or on windmills in China? Was it a good idea to borrow all this money from countries like China and spend it on all these various different interest groups?"
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"Health and Human Services has an enormous amount of discretion that they have so far used to make it harder to get affordable health care. To make you buy what the government insists you must buy. That doesn`t work."
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"There's no reason that patients can't have electronic access to their complete medical history... Just as people can check their bank account information online or using their ATM card, patients who want to should have electronic access to their medical records."
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"I believe in a free society, where aspiration and effort can make the difference in every life. Where your starting point is not your destiny and where your first chance is not your only chance."
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"I think Donald Trump understands there's a Constitution. And that those separate but equal branches of government give us a limited government. And he believes that."
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"Let's move forward and fix America's problems."
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"Donald Trump was a very unconventional candidate. He's going to be an unconventional president."
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"Here`s what the rest of the world does that we don`t do. They take the tax off of their exports and place a tax on their imports. We do the opposite. We tax our exports and don`t tax our imports."
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"Close loopholes, close the special interest Washington carve outs and that means more incomes subject to taxation so we`re going to lower the rates on our businesses and be fair."
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"Elections have consequences. And I fundamentally believe - this is my personal opinion, I know it's a slightly partisan thing to say - to really do what we think needs to be done, we're going to have to win some elections."
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"There is no doubt our democracy can be very messy and America does remain a sharply divided country."
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"Mike Pence is a good man, a principled conservative, and he will make a great vice president."
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