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" President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do. "

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" For all our current troubles, Americans are still the hardest working, most innovative people on the face of the earth. By trusting the American people, instead of government, we'll continue to surprise and inspire the world. "

Rob Portman

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" I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I was able to propose a balanced budget, not over ten years, but over five years. I'm proud of that record. "

" The U.S. has fallen behind with tax policies that haven't been updated in a half-century. "

" I think what people are looking for right now is not the kind of pizzazz and pop that perhaps we thought we got in 2008. Certainly, President Obama offered that. What they want now is someone who can work closely with Congress and get things done. "

" Ohio chose the president in 2000 and 2004. The independent voters, the so-called swing voters, are the ones who make the difference. "

" I was fortunate, I guess, to be part of some good fiscal discipline in the Bush administration. The budget I put forward was a balanced budget. "

" Kyrie Irving could use a little help. "

" The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting. "

" It's the wrong time for us to be pulling the rug out from under American exporters. "

" People vote for the president, not the vice president. I think sometimes people that are in the veepstakes talk too much about this and certainly the media does. I don't think that it's that important. "

" No one in my family had ever been in politics. My dad thought it was something that got in the way. "

" Having deinstitutionalized mental health, we have not created the structure and the institutions to take care of people, to identify when there is a mental health problem, and to get the treatment to people. "

" The Social Security disability fund is going belly up in 2016. "

" Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress believed we could spend our way to prosperity, and I guess they still do. "

" I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring. "

" The wealthy are doing just fine in the Obama economy. "

" There has never been a campaign where there hasn't been sniping from the outside and second-guessing. I hear the same sometimes from the Democratic side in terms of President Obama's campaign, so that's to be expected. "

" I don't know what's going to happen specifically on votes on Obamacare. I suspect we'll vote to repeal early to put on record the fact that we Republicans think it's a bad policy, and we think it's hurting our constituents, and we think health care cost should be going down, not up. "

" The Obama administration has refused to back down on the insurance mandate that needlessly pits health care against the rights of the religious... This administration simply doesn't get it. "

" I'm very happy where I am: I'm a senator from Ohio. "

" If you focus on what people care about, you have ideas. And people are looking for solutions. "

" I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done. "

Rob Portman

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" We should not throw in the towel. Instead, we should be saying to young people, 'There is a better way for you to have a healthy and productive life, and that's not to get into drug use and drug abuse.' "

" The broad goal, laid out by Congress, the Obama administration, and the U.N. Security Council, was that Iran would suspend all enrichment-related activities and not be permitted a path to ever pursue a nuclear weapons program. "

" If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point. "

" We need to figure out how to connect people to jobs. "

" We have a paralysis in Washington that's not serving our country. We have to address these issues. "

" We need a broader party. If we're not doing better with millennials and women and Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans and others, we will have a tough time being a majority party at the national level. "

" My concern about Barack Obama is he ran a campaign in 2008 where he said we're going to bring people together and solve big problems. And he specifically talked about the need to reach across the aisle and deal with issues like the economy, which was obviously the top issue in 2008. It has not happened. "

" I'm on the Armed Services Committee, which gives me the opportunity to get involved on some of these international issues. My focus is, as you know, on the economic issues and budget issues. "

Rob Portman

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