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" A lot of NBA owners sit at the midcourt. But we love being under the basket and seeing the players. "
Basket
Sit
Seeing
" As a father of four, I want our children to enjoy the freedoms and opportunities that are the fruit of progressive values. "
Children
Opportunities
Fruit
" Boston is really a small town, and the pro sports here are almost like a college sport. "
Small
Sports
Like
" Hyperbole has been part of elections since the days of John Adams, and there's nobody better than Joe Biden to give us a little hyperbole, as we all know. "
Better
Nobody
Know
" I gave Mitt Romney some donations for his campaign because he was a friend, and friendship came first. I've always been a Democrat, and I've had different views than Mitt Romney. I'm not Mitt Romney, and I think people will realize that when they meet me out there. "
Friend
Think
People
" I love Indian food. London also has great Indian food. "
Indian
London
Love
" I'm a Democrat, and I think people who meet me will realize I'm a Democrat. I have progressive Democratic values. "
Me
Think
Values
" I'm not for a temporary war tax. We're putting actual dollars in one way or the other, and so if we're gonna look at taxes, we ought to look at a comprehensive tax reform policy. "
Way
Look
Policy
" Instead of being a teacher, I got a job with a company called Bain & Co., consulting firm, and they taught me how to build businesses. "
Got
Build
Me
" I think business, government and unions have to work together, and the common enemies to the global economy. We're being beaten by the global economy, and we've got to unite together to win. "
Business
Government
Work
" I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money. "
Look
Think
Whole
" I've made it clear that I'm not taking special interest PAC money or accepting donations from lobbyists - ever. I want to represent the interests of the citizens. "
Interest
Money
Clear
" I've probably done more venture capital deals and expansion financings than I have done private equity deals. But both are the same. Private equity companies have also built jobs. "
Equity
Expansion
Same
" I was an international tax specialist. Yeah, I was an international man of mystery and tax specialist. "
Mystery
Tax
Yeah
" I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education. So I just got the MBA and not the doctorate. I loved it at Bain, and I've been there ever since. "
Teacher
Loved
Education
" Jobs have to be created on the ground, one at a time. This requires detailed plans and specific policies. "
Time
Jobs
Ground
" My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work. "
Day
Job
Father
" My favorite foods are things that aren't great to eat, like pizza. "
Pizza
Things
Great
" My grandfather was a shoemaker who worked in a shoe factory. "
Factory
Who
Shoe
" One place I haven't made it to - mainly because it's so far away - is Australia, so I'd love to go there. I've heard great things about Australia and New Zealand. "
Place
Australia
Far Away
" Part of America is we've always had people that can get things done. "
Always
Things
America
" The whole tax code should be looked at, all the way from farm subsidies to carried interest to - to corporate loopholes, because we really need to raise more revenue. "
Tax
Way
Need
" To me it's incontrovertible that investment in people, investment in business, creates jobs; they don't destroy jobs. "
Business
People
Me
" We need someone in Washington who knows how to build jobs from the ground up. "
Build
Someone
Ground
" We really wake up every day trying to build businesses. That is the goal of private equity. It's a misnomer out there that private equity profits by shrinking companies. In fact, it's just the opposite. Private equity creates value by growing great companies. "
Wake Up
Value
Great
" What I like about Bain Capital is that we have Republicans, we have Democrats, we have independents; we are a diverse firm in terms of political views. But what we do is we sit down and we try to solve the problems. "
Sit
Political
Down
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