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

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  Today, Gone, World

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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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• Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.

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  Panic, Politician, Gas

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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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• 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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• The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework.

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  Special, Needs, Cost

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• Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios.

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  Country, Educational, America

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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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• Households and businesses cut expenses every day. Passing a financial down payment alongside the debt limit sends the right message to the public, and gives members of Congress greater comfort, or cover, depending on your perspective.

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  Cutting, Giving, Perspective

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• I believe our foreign assistance should be scrutinized, should be debated, and that we should strike the right balance, but in all cases the foreign assistance that we provide around the world should be used to further our national security interests.

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  Believe, Balance, World

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• It doesn't take Warren Buffett to realize that when companies don't know what new rules will look like, it affects their ability to commit capital and create new jobs.

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  Jobs, New Job, Looks

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent voters. They made no effort to shy away from ideology, but conveyed to voters that their policies were driven by principle, not party talking points.

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  Party, Independent, Talking

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• When Obama gutted Medicare by taking $717 billion out of it, the Romney plan does not do that. The Ryan plan mimicked part of the Obama package there, the Romney plan does not. That's a big difference.

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  Differences, Doe, Bigs

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