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"Gov. Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid to save $5 a day."
"The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance."
In July 1996, Mitt Romney helped locate the missing teenage daughter of a partner at Bain Capital.
Students today "take more years to get through" college.
"In 2006, I went out and authored a letter with 24 other senators asking for major reform of Freddie and Fannie, warning of a meltdown and a bubble in the housing market."
"I've never voted for a Democrat when there was a Republican on the ballot."
"Romneycare … is a top-down, government-run health care system."
"We balanced the budget with the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, and ultimately had four consecutive balanced budgets."
Republican-leaning states get more in federal dollars than they pay in taxes.
Says Steve Jobs was responsible for creating more jobs than the stimulus bill.
"Nearly half of all persons under 30 did not go to work today."
"(Newt Gingrich) voted in favor of establishing the Department of Education, and yet he gets in a debate and says we should get rid of the Department of Education and send all the education issues back to the states."
"In the last 22 months, businesses have created more than 3 million jobs. Last year, they created the most jobs since 2005."
"(After the auto bailout) General Motors is back on top as the world’s No. 1 automaker."
"Right now, American oil production is the highest that it’s been in eight years."
Says he eliminated an EPA rule that treated spilled milk like it was oil.
"The median income in this country has declined 10 percent in the last four years."
Florida's economy "became a bad economy ... because of a huge spike in oil prices in the summer of 2008."
"Speaker Gingrich for 20 years supported a federal individual mandate" for health insurance.
"We have 25 million Americans out of work."
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