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Citizens pay taxes and create jobs, a point Mitt Romney highlights for Massachusetts. He talks about personal responsibility, freedom, and keeping government small so individuals can thrive. He also urges better immigration tracking and warns against paying public servants more than taxpayers.

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You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

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I think there is need for economic stimulus... and government can help make that up in a very difficult time.

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Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.

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The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

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Government does not create jobs. Government does not create jobs.

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It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government.

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The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

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People who are government servants, public servants, should not be paid more than the taxpayers who are paying for it.

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I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing.…

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I've seen a lot of government try to solve problems, and it didn't work. And my view is that the right course…

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Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like…

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During the Reagan years, government shut down eight different times under a Democrat Congress. The president and Congress worked together and got…

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This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President…

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I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government…

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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…

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Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the…

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Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment,…

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The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will…

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Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government…

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I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more…

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I'm a big believer in getting money from where the money is, and the money is in Washington. I learned from running…

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I'm not saying anything one way or the other about the two ballot issues. I am not speaking about the particular ballot…

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I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent…

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That the policies - from energy to labor policies, trade policies, government policies relating to debt and deficits are all aligning in…

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I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.

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When government is... bailing out banks... we have every good reason to be alarmed.

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It's not government that makes business successful. It's not government investments that makes businesses grow and hire people.

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Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government.

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By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.

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The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like…

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With these 11 million people here illegally, let's have them registered, know who they are, those that are her paying taxes and…

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This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got…

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I understand what it takes to - to make a bright and prosperous future for America again. I - I spent my…

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Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our…

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On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government…

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And I hear from time to time people say, hey, wait a second, we have civil liberties we have to worry about.…

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Obama says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did.…

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And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all…

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Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger…

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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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