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" During the Reagan years, government shut down eight different times under a Democrat Congress. The president and Congress worked together and got things straightened out. Under the Carter years, again a Democrat Congress, the government shut down five times. "

Mitt Romney

Congress

Together

Down

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" I'm not running again. I will say this: It was a great experience. I loved it. "

" We conservatives don't have a corner on saying 'no'. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say. "

" And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people. "

" I am a son of Detroit. I was born in Detroit. "

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Born

" My red line is Iran may not have a nuclear weapon. It is inappropriate for them to have the capacity to terrorize the world. Iran with a nuclear weapon or with fissile material that can be given to Hezbollah or Hamas or others has the potential of not just destabilizing the Middle East. "

" In every stump speech I give, I speak about the fact that people who dream and achieve enormous success do not make us poorer - they make us better off. "

" You've got to be really careful about what you say and do anywhere you are. I actually had a dream about being in parking garage and having somebody in front of me taking too long to get their change and honking the horn and then yelling back, and getting out and yelling at each other and then seeing it on YouTube the next day. "

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" There's no question in my mind that I think I would have been a better president than Barack Obama has been. "

" By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter. "

" And that's how it is in America. We look to our communities, our faiths, our families for our joy, our support, in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives. "

" It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism. "

" I don't like vampires personally. I don't know any. "

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Know

Vampires

" If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are. "

" Obama has so mismanaged the economy. "

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Obama

Economy

" Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do. "

" To win the nomination, you speak to people who vote in Republican primaries. And they tend not to be millennials or minorities... When I win the nomination and show up at a black church, they say, 'Where have you been Mr. Romney?' "

" I think people should have the common courtesy and judgment - the good judgment - not to be - not to offend other peoples' faiths. "

" There will always be, within a party, people who backed one candidate versus people who backed another, and there will be factions in the party, and there's always a little glee faction looking at the difficulty of the other faction. "

" There are a lot of people who go to Washington or go to their state houses with a personal ambition in mind. "

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Mind

People

" I think I had a superb campaign team. And I know it's always expected that if you lose, people point to the campaign team and say, 'Gee, they didn't do their job well.' If you win, they're all brilliant. And the team, in my view, did a superb job. "

" I was indeed very critical of Mr. Trump during his campaign. "

" Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families. "

" It's a great experience. If you get a chance to run for president, do it. "

" I've met graduating college kids facing loan payments and a bad economy, and they are worried that they won't be able to get a job. This is not the way America needs to be. "

" While I was governor, 85 percent of the people on a form of welfare assistance in my state had no work requirement. I wanted to increase the work requirement. "

" I appreciate the few people who say nice things about me and say, 'Gee, you were right about this,' or, 'You were right about that.' But frankly, I spend my time looking ahead. I've got 23 grandkids, and I'm concerned about what their world is going to be like. "

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Looking

" Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear. "

" What America needs is jobs. Lots of jobs. "