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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. "
Rob Portman
Healthcare
Insurance
People
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" 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. "
Rob Portman
Look
Forward
Government
" I can give a speech, and I can do a rally, and I do them, but that's not what I like to do. "
Rob Portman
Them
Speech
Rally
" 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. "
Rob Portman
Doctor
You
Driving
" Trump and Bernie Sanders are different sides of the same coin. "
Rob Portman
Different
Trump
Sides
" 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. "
Rob Portman
People
Think
Looking
" I like to think I am a serious legislator and trying to get things done. That's my goal in life, to get things done. "
Rob Portman
Serious
Life
I Am
" There is so much uncertainty out there, and the government in Washington doesn't seem to get it. What's needed is a new business environment. "
Rob Portman
New
Business
Environment
" I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad, the government shouldn't deny them the opportunity to get married. "
Rob Portman
Commitment
Bad
Good
" I have decided to endorse Governor John Kasich for president because he is a leader who has a proven record of delivering results. John turned Ohio around at a tough time, and I believe he can do the same for our country. "
Rob Portman
Leader
Believe
Tough
" 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. "
Rob Portman
Jury
Degree
You
" We want more of our products going overseas, but the trick is to have a level playing field. "
Rob Portman
More
Products
Want
" We have a paralysis in Washington that's not serving our country. We have to address these issues. "
Rob Portman
Country
Washington
Serving
" I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done. "
Rob Portman
Done
Get
Like
" The TV ads have been coming hot and heavy in Ohio. I think the Obama campaign has outspent the Romney campaign by two-to-one or three-to-one, depending on the analysis you look at. People are tired of the attacks already, and here we are in July. "
Rob Portman
Look
People
Think
" 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. "
Rob Portman
Out
Big
People
" It's not about sizzle for me. I think it's fine. I mean, America made a decision in 2008 to go with a president who did have sizzle. "
Rob Portman
Mean
Me
Think
" 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. "
Rob Portman
Technology
System
Iron
" 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. "
Rob Portman
American
Society
Government
" 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. "
Rob Portman
Help
Together
Working Together
" We must make clear that if you come here illegally, you will be sent back home. "
Rob Portman
Will
Back
Here
" 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. "
Rob Portman
Side
Sometimes
Same
" Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress believed we could spend our way to prosperity, and I guess they still do. "
Rob Portman
Prosperity
Our
Leaders
" What law enforcement will tell you is that in a terrorist act or even an act of people who are involved in crime, such as a drug gang, that they tend to get their weapons illegally. "
Rob Portman
Crime
You
Law Enforcement
" 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. "
Rob Portman
Opponent
Ideas
You
" Our country needs people who are maybe a little less focused on themselves and on the flash and a little more focused on how do we actually create a better environment for success for our young people, how do we get people back to work, how do we regain our standing internationally. "
Rob Portman
Success
Back
Environment
" What I support is a whole different approach with regard to drug use, and that is spending less money on the prosecution and incarceration side and more money on prevention and education, which I know works. "
Rob Portman
Know
Education
Support
" I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring. "
Rob Portman
Even
Staff
Boring
" If you focus on what people care about, you have ideas. And people are looking for solutions. "
Rob Portman
You
People
Looking
" Ohio chose the president in 2000 and 2004. The independent voters, the so-called swing voters, are the ones who make the difference. "
Rob Portman
Difference
Swing
Independent
" 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
Face
Government
Inspire