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It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

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Mitt Romney
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 12
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Former Governor Of Massachusetts
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America has not dictated to other nations. We have freed other nations from dictators.
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When we have had in the past programs that have said that the people who come here illegally are going to get to stay illegally for the rest of their life, that's going to only encourage more people to come here illegally.
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When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.
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There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.
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Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government.
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I don't believe that bureaucrats in Washington should tell someone whether they can use contraceptives or not. And I don't believe employers should tell someone whether they could have contraceptive care of not. Every woman in America should have access to contraceptives.
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President Obama trusts in the wisdom of government. I put my trust in the ingenuity and creativity and commitment to hard work of the American people.
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My doctrine is as I've described, which is confidence in our cause, clarity in our purpose, and resolve in our might.
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Small business is where jobs come from. Two-thirds of our jobs come from small businesses.
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My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.
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But in the business I had, we invested in over 100 different businesses and net-net, taking out the ones where we lost jobs and those that we added, those businesses have now added over 100,000 jobs.
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Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.
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I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.
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Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
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The American people should be free to advocate for their candidates and their positions without burdensome limitations.
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We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.
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And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.
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When government is... bailing out banks... we have every good reason to be alarmed.
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We need to make sure and that we can continue to move forward in creating jobs and getting the economy turned around. The best way to do that is to make sure that we can get Congress to adopt the American Jobs Act.
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No punishment for women who have partial birth abortions.
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