John Sununu Quotes

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• Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

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  Children, Real, Empowering

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• Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.

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  Ideas, Giving, Perspective

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• Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.

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  Senior, Jobs, Motivation

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• Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.

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  Today, Gone, World

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• People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue.

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  Issues, People, Hampshire

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• Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.

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  Should Have, Discipline, Wish

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• A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity.

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  Running, Winning, Effort

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• Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.

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  Jobs, Growing Up, Real

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• The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future; it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place.

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  Integrity, Commitment, America

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• The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

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  Creating, Government, Formulas

  "John Sununu: ‘I Wish This President Would Learn How To Be An American’" by Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2012.

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• Mitt Romney has made it clear that he believes that President Obama was born in the U.S.

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  Believe, President, Born

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• Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

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  Panic, Politician, Gas

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• It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people.

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  Senior, Giving, People

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• We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

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  Might, Too Much, Bureaucracy

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• I'm running for senator because it's time for a change.

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  Change, Running, Time For A Change

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• If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.

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  Long, Waiting, United States

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• Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.

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  Voice, Matter, Standards

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• As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!

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  Mother, Boys

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• President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.

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  Jobs, Playing Games, Space

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• For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.

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  Friday, Monday, Weekend

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• Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.

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  Years, Iowa, Political

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• Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior.

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  Views, Political, Trying

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• Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

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  Yellow, Fax Machines, Digital Revolution

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• It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.

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  Technology, Years, Worry

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• You walk into any supermarket or any shopping mall and ask the public what they are worried about. Not one of them will tell you they are worried about 12 years of Mitt Romney's tax returns.

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  Years, Shopping, Return

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