Rob Portman Quotes

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• 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…
• That isn't how I've always felt. As a congressman, and more recently as a senator, I opposed marriage for same-sex couples. Then something happened that…
• The problem is that this round from its inception has had agriculture at its centerpiece. The EU and the U. S. and other WTO members…
• The reality is that until we can agree on a formula that reduces tariffs globally we cannot meet this Doha promise for development. In order…
• 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,…
• The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.
• 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…
• I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.
• How does the weakness of the dollar affect your business?
• 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…
• 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…
• Folks, do you agree with me that we cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama?
• 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.…
• I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring.
• 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 -…
• Things are not getting better. They are getting worse. We need to elect Mitt Romney to turn things around.
• Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the…
• 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…
• When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and…
• If you start very far to the left, it's harder to get to the middle.

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