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" This past year has been very turbulent for the Middle East, and my conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu strengthened my belief that we need to remain vigilant in our support of our critical ally. "

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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.' "

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" I'm focused, as you can tell, on 2014 and on doing my job as a senator. "

" The Obama economy is great for rich people. It's terrible for everybody else. "

" My dad did everything he could. It was a start-up, and the banks didn't want to lend him enough money, so he mortgaged our house. "

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

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

" Senator Brown and I have different philosophies as represented in our different ratings: I am a conservative, and he is a liberal. "

" I may sound naive, since everyone's decided the next two years are going to be all about 2016, but I look at what's happened over the years when there's been divided government. That's when we've done tax reform, that's when we've done entitlement reform - to move this economy forward on these big issues. "

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

Rob Portman

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" Do you agree with me that we can't afford four more years of Barack Obama? "

" I support repeal, but I think we ought to also spend time on the replacement side of that. The Republican approach has never been, 'Let's get rid of this,' but, 'Let's replace it with something that does deal with a very real problem in our healthcare system.' And that is the entry's cost and lack of coverage. "

" Ohioans need peace of mind that the water coming out of their tap is safe. It's as simple as that. "

" At the end of the day, all the best negotiating techniques can't overcome the most substantive policy differences. "

" We want more of our products going overseas, but the trick is to have a level playing field. "

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" We think healthcare costs should be going down, not up. We think people should be able to keep insurance that they had. "

" 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. "

" I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When you analyze all the data, there is a warming trend according to science. But the jury is out on the degree of how much is manmade. "

" This is his solution: He said all we need to do is take your tax dollars, send them to Washington, have Washington take out its cut, having Washington then send it back to the states, have the states then go out and hire public employees. Does that make sense to you? Is that how to get the economy moving? "

" President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's. "

" Decisions about your health should be between you and your doctor, not a bureaucrat and an insurance company. Let's expand choice rather than limiting it. Let's create jobs instead of destroying them. And let's bring down the costs instead of driving them up. "

" The Iron Dome system is a proven way for Israel to defend its citizens from hostile threats and will advance missile defense technology for us and other allies. "

" One of the big issues in Ohio and elsewhere is people do not have the skills to take advantage of the openings that are out there. "

" Working together with Democrats and Republicans, I passed legislation to help break the grip of addiction. By investing in prevention, treatment, and recovery, empowering law enforcement, and stopping the overprescribing of painkillers, we can turn the tide. "

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

" We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: 'You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code.' "

" You could have another downgrade. You could certainly have a stock market reaction that would be negative. And, I think nobody who looks at it objectively would want to happen. "