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" Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents. "
John Sununu
Legal
Marriage
Power
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" The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework. "
John Sununu
Measure
Homework
Special
" I think you can be tough and aggressive with facts in a way that you cannot be tough and aggressive with emotional retorts. Most of the people that try to be tough on TV are really just being emotional and not factual. "
John Sununu
Facts
Think
Tough
" Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards. "
John Sununu
Voice
Standards
Through
" The nominee is Mitt Romney. Paul Ryan joins Mitt Romney. The budget plan, the approach on Medicare and all of that is going to be the Romney plan. What he has is a man as his number two who understands the details of budgets, who has demonstrated a willingness to take on tough issues. "
John Sununu
Man
Budget
Details
" Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job. "
John Sununu
Job
Worry
Senior
" When Obama gutted Medicare by taking $717 billion out of it, the Romney plan does not do that. The Ryan plan mimicked part of the Obama package there, the Romney plan does not. That's a big difference. "
John Sununu
Medicare
Big
Out
" When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption. "
John Sununu
Technology
Destruction
Mass
" People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue. "
John Sununu
People
Talk
New Hampshire
" The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world. "
John Sununu
Role
Country
World
" Critics might contend that putting former private-sector CEOs in the president's Cabinet places the fox in the henhouse. But it's unlikely such executives would expose themselves to the headaches if they weren't genuinely motivated by the call to service. "
John Sununu
Fox
Places
Critics
" A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity. "
John Sununu
Effort
Risk
Values
" Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children. "
John Sununu
Children
Real
Wealth
" It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority. "
John Sununu
Government
Party
Same
" The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future; it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place. "
John Sununu
Place
Integrity
Future
" Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches. "
John Sununu
Discipline
Politicians
Cage
" I understand the process of politics and the game of television. "
John Sununu
Game
Politics
Process
" This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences. "
John Sununu
Risk
Moving
Technology
" The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business. "
John Sununu
Create
American
Government
" As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish! "
John Sununu
Me
Learned
Out
" Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa. "
John Sununu
Us
Four
Corn
" It doesn't take Warren Buffett to realize that when companies don't know what new rules will look like, it affects their ability to commit capital and create new jobs. "
John Sununu
Rules
Create
Know
" For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week. "
John Sununu
Government
Weekend
Positive
" Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas. "
John Sununu
Politicians
Gas
Gallon
" Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios. "
John Sununu
Challenges
America
Today
" I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will. "
John Sununu
Know
Long
Long Time
" Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation. "
John Sununu
Environmental
Business
Innovation
" We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change. "
John Sununu
Change
Process
September
" The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete. "
John Sununu
Service
Business
Advertising
" Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution. "
John Sununu
Business
Revolution
Music
" Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal. "
John Sununu
Willingness
Because
Technology