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" 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
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" Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street. "
John Sununu
Blame
Life
Street
" You walk into any supermarket or any shopping mall and ask the public what they are worried about. Not one of them will tell you they are worried about 12 years of Mitt Romney's tax returns. "
John Sununu
You
Will
Walk
" We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing. "
John Sununu
Too
Too Much
Always
" 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
" 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
" 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
" You don't want to get so distracted, focusing on what the opposition is putting forth that you forget to remind America that the real issue is 8.3 percent unemployment, virtually no growth at all in an economy that has been in shambles for the last four years under Obama. "
John Sununu
Growth
Want
America
" The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics. "
John Sununu
Tax
Great
Point
" Obama hasn't passed a budget in four years, he's a wuss. Obama has rejected the recommendation of his own Simpson-Bowles, on a budget package, he's a wuss. He wants to lead from behind, he's a wuss! "
John Sununu
Lead
Budget
Four
" The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in America. They are going to pick Mitt Romney. "
John Sununu
Fix
Personal
November
" The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed. "
John Sununu
Win
Own
Internet
" 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
" 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
" Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards. "
John Sununu
Voice
Standards
Through
" 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
" Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches. "
John Sununu
Discipline
Politicians
Cage
" Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas. "
John Sununu
Politicians
Gas
Gallon
" For my children, it makes sense to talk about modernizing Social Security, letting them create stronger personal accounts, letting them get a higher rate of return over the long run. "
John Sununu
Children
Create
Long
" Mitt Romney has made it clear that he believes that President Obama was born in the U.S. "
John Sununu
Made
Clear
Born
" 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
" 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
" Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior. "
John Sununu
Energy
Behavior
Political
" Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself. "
John Sununu
Education
Service
Opportunity
" 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
" I believe our foreign assistance should be scrutinized, should be debated, and that we should strike the right balance, but in all cases the foreign assistance that we provide around the world should be used to further our national security interests. "
John Sununu
Balance
Security
World
" I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion. "
John Sununu
Minimum Wage
Reason
Support
" 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
" If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long. "
John Sununu
Long
You
Wait
" The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business. "
John Sununu
Create
American
Government
" 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