Rob Portman Quotes

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

Government, Working, American

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

Four, Agree, Afford

Folks, do you agree with me that we cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama?
Rob Portman

Cannot, Four, Agree

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

Government, Society, Crisis

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 propose a balanced budget, not over ten years, but over five years. I'm proud of that record.
Rob Portman

Time, Today, Strong

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

Work, Someone, Done

I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring.
Rob Portman

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.
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Done, Trying, Serious

I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty-five percent of the people up here get their health care through religious organizations and so that religious freedom issue is very important to them.
Rob Portman

Health, Freedom, Care

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.
Rob Portman

Good, Social, Point

If you start very far to the left, it's harder to get to the middle.
Rob Portman

Start, Far, Left

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 image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes.
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Government, President, Growing

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.
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Mean, Decision, Made

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. And he specifically talked about the need to reach across the aisle and deal with issues like the economy, which was obviously the top issue in 2008. It has not happened.
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Together, Said, Big

People vote for the president, not the vice president. I think sometimes people that are in the veepstakes talk too much about this and certainly the media does. I don't think that it's that important.
Rob Portman

Important, Sometimes, Talk

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.
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Trying, Try, Said

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.
Rob Portman

Mom, Talk, Here

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

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

Tired, Here, Hot

The way to an American economic comeback, the way to help those out of work today find a paycheck, is to unleash the forces of job creation in America. The source of new jobs isn't going to be the bureaucracies of Washington, but rather the creativity, ingenuity, and hard work of the American people.
Rob Portman

Work, Today, Help

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.
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Same, Sometimes, President

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.
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Government, Business, Seem

Things are not getting better. They are getting worse. We need to elect Mitt Romney to turn things around.
Rob Portman

Around, Getting, Turn

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?
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Moving, Said, Sense

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.
Rob Portman

Past, Year, Support

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Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: December 19, 1955

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