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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• 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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• 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 nominee is Mitt Romney. Paul Ryan joins Mitt Romney. The budget plan, the approach on Medicare and all of that is going to be the Romney plan. What he has is a man as his number two who understands the details of budgets, who has demonstrated a willingness to take on tough issues.

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  Men, Two, Numbers

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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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• 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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• After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.

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  Debt, Answers, Chance

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• The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world.

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  Country, Trying, President

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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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• Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.

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  Growth, Enough Time, Cost

  First Speech by Anne Ruston as representative of South Australia, www.anneruston.com.au. October 10, 2012.

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• Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will.

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  Thank You, Running, Jobs

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• I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

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  Games, Television, Process

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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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• I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

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  Men, Long, Old Man

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