Quotes by Rob Portman - Page 2

When it is fair, American workers can compete and win. I cannot support the TPP in its current form because it doesn't provide that level playing field.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
American Workers
Form
Level Playing Field
Support
Workers
Compete
Current
Fair
Playing Field
Provide
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I'm not representing any organization. I represent the people of Ohio, and a lot of people in Ohio feel very strongly about their Second Amendment rights.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Ohio
Organization
Second Amendment
Amendment
Amendment Rights
Represent
Strongly
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The Iron Dome system is a proven way for Israel to defend its citizens from hostile threats and will advance missile defense technology for us and other allies.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Allies
Citizens
Defense
Hostile
Iron
Missile Defense
Proven
Advance
Defend
Dome
Missile
Threats
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The problem is that this round from its inception has had agriculture at its centerpiece. The EU and the U. S. and other WTO members cannot wish that away, that is a reality.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Agriculture
Reality
Wish
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As the crisis in Syria grows and the humanitarian tragedy becomes more clear, I appreciated Prime Minister Netanyahu's perspective on the changes and volatility in the region.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Appreciated
Clear
Crisis
Grows
Perspective
Prime Minister
Syria
Tragedy
Volatility
Minister
Netanyahu
Region
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You could have another downgrade. You could certainly have a stock market reaction that would be negative. And, I think nobody who looks at it objectively would want to happen.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Downgrade
Objectively
Reaction
Stock
Stock Market
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What law enforcement will tell you is that in a terrorist act or even an act of people who are involved in crime, such as a drug gang, that they tend to get their weapons illegally.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Enforcement
Gang
Law Enforcement
Terrorist
Weapons
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We should not approve an agreement that fails to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and does nothing to address Iranian behavior that threatens our allies and our interests.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Allies
Developing
Iran
Nuclear
Weapons
Approve
Fails
Prevent
Threatens
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The Obama administration has refused to back down on the insurance mandate that needlessly pits health care against the rights of the religious... This administration simply doesn't get it.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Administration
Health Care
Pits
Health Care Insurance
Insurance
Mandate
Obama Administration
Refused
This Administration
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I'm on the Armed Services Committee, which gives me the opportunity to get involved on some of these international issues. My focus is, as you know, on the economic issues and budget issues.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Armed Services
Armed
Budget
Committee
Services
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With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair trade barriers that hurt American business and farmers
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Hurt
Rejection
Strong
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Some have said, 'Gosh, Donald Trump is going to hurt you.' Some have said, 'Gosh Donald Trump is going to help you.' He may be helpful in certain parts of Ohio, but I'm going to run my own campaign.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Helpful
Ohio
Trump
Campaign
Donald
Donald Trump
Gosh
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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 / United States Senator
Vice President
Vote
People Sometimes Media
Vice
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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 / United States Senator
Belief
Conversation
Critical
East
Middle
Middle East
Prime Minister
Vigilant
Ally
Minister
Netanyahu
Remain
Strengthened
Turbulent
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We should not throw in the towel. Instead, we should be saying to young people, 'There is a better way for you to have a healthy and productive life, and that's not to get into drug use and drug abuse.'
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Abuse
Life Better People
Better Way
Towel
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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 / United States Senator
Balanced
Balanced Budget
Propose
Records
Strong
Strong Economy
Ten
Years
Budget
Deficits
Served
Ten Years
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Having deinstitutionalized mental health, we have not created the structure and the institutions to take care of people, to identify when there is a mental health problem, and to get the treatment to people.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Mental Health
Structure
Take Care
Treatment
Health Care People
Health Problem
Identify
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What I support is a whole different approach with regard to drug use, and that is spending less money on the prosecution and incarceration side and more money on prevention and education, which I know works.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Different Approach
Incarceration
Prevention
Prosecution
Regard
Less Money
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I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad, the government shouldn't deny them the opportunity to get married.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Believe
Commitment
Deny
Gay
Good Times
Lifetime
Prepared
Get Married
Two People
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That isn't how I've always felt. As a congressman, and more recently as a senator, I opposed marriage for same-sex couples. Then something happened that led me to think through my position in a much deeper way.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Couple
Gay
Sex
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We need a broader party. If we're not doing better with millennials and women and Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans and others, we will have a tough time being a majority party at the national level.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Asian
Millennials
African
African Americans
Broader
Hispanics
Tough Time
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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 / United States Senator
Government
Activity
Crisis
Entrepreneurial
Excuse
Financial
Financial Crisis
Saws
Weak
More And More
Onto
Push
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The reality is that until we can agree on a formula that reduces tariffs globally we cannot meet this Doha promise for development. In order to keep momentum post-Hong Kong, the European Union must be willing to move.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Moving
Order
Reality
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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.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Campaigns
Democratic
President
Sniping
Campaign
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I hope that the entire Senate votes to say that if you're on the terrorist watch list - not just the no-fly list, which is a much more targeted list, but the terrorist watch list - you should not be able to buy a weapon.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Senate
Terrorist
Entire
Weapon
List
Targeted
Votes
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I have decided to endorse Governor John Kasich for president because he is a leader who has a proven record of delivering results. John turned Ohio around at a tough time, and I believe he can do the same for our country.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Decided
Delivering
Ohio
Proven
Results
Time Believe I Believe
Endorse
Governor
John
Tough Time
Turned
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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.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Attacking
Fresh Ideas
Ideas
President
President Obama
Stale
Trying
Relentlessly
Opponent
Unacceptable
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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 / United States Senator
Government
Innovative
Inspire
People
Surprise
American People
Current
Troubles
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The broad goal, laid out by Congress, the Obama administration, and the U.N. Security Council, was that Iran would suspend all enrichment-related activities and not be permitted a path to ever pursue a nuclear weapons program.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Administration
Congress
Council
Iran
Nuclear
Path
Program
Pursue
Security
Security Council
Weapons
Activities
Obama
Broad
Laid
Obama Administration
Permitted
Suspend
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When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and President Bush all believed we should have a lower rate for capital gains.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Capital Gains
Clinton
Gains
Hurt
Income
President
President Bush
President Clinton
Rate
Should Have
Tax
Believed
Bush
Capital
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We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: 'You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code.'
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Leadership
Allowing
Code
Congress
Tax
Current
Debating
Extended
Tax Code
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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 / United States Senator
Mom
Corporations
Higher
Likes
President
President Obama
Rate
Support
Tax
Obama
All Americans
Businesses
Rule
Tax Rate
Warren
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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 / United States Senator
Ads
Analysis
Heavy
July
Obama Campaign
Ohio
Romney
Tired
Attacks
Campaign
Depending
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I have acknowledged the problem and have spent my time in Congress focusing on solutions - including developing clean and efficient energy that grows our economy and creates jobs while also lowering pollution levels and protecting the environment.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Jobs
Clean
Congress
Developing
Economy
Efficient
Environment
Grows
Including
Levels
My Time
Pollution
Solutions
Acknowledged
Creates
Focusing
Lowering
Protecting
Spent
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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 / United States Senator
Congress
People
President
President Obama
Thinking
Work Done People
Closely
Work Looking People
Offered
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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 / United States Senator
Cleveland
Concerned
Folks
Health Care
Issues
Organization
Percent
Religious
Religious Freedom
Tonight
Twenty Five
Freedom Health Care
Issue
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Working together with Democrats and Republicans, I passed legislation to help break the grip of addiction. By investing in prevention, treatment, and recovery, empowering law enforcement, and stopping the overprescribing of painkillers, we can turn the tide.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Addiction
Break
Empowering
Enforcement
Investing
Law Enforcement
Legislation
Prevention
Recovery
Stopping
Treatment
Working Together
Democrats
Democrats And Republicans
Republicans
Grip
Passed
Tide
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Decisions about your health should be between you and your doctor, not a bureaucrat and an insurance company. Let's expand choice rather than limiting it. Let's create jobs instead of destroying them. And let's bring down the costs instead of driving them up.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Destroying
Health Doctor Your
Bureaucrat
Expand
Insurance
Limiting
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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.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Jobs
Government
Approach
Country
Focused
Higher
President Obama
Regulation
Spending
Higher Taxes
Remake
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I don't know what's going to happen specifically on votes on Obamacare. I suspect we'll vote to repeal early to put on record the fact that we Republicans think it's a bad policy, and we think it's hurting our constituents, and we think health care cost should be going down, not up.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Health Care
Republicans
Hurting
Repeal
Specifically
Suspect
Votes
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Our country needs people who are maybe a little less focused on themselves and on the flash and a little more focused on how do we actually create a better environment for success for our young people, how do we get people back to work, how do we regain our standing internationally.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Flash
Standing
Success Work Better
Internationally
Regain
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Out of college, I had two job offers. One was to be a canoe instructor for Outward Bound. And frankly, that would have paid better than the job I took, working on a policy commission in Washington that focused on immigration policy and refugees. But that decision made all the difference.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Immigration
Immigration Policy
Offers
All The Difference
Canoe
Commission
Frankly
Instructor
Outward
Refugees
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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 / United States Senator
Jobs
Comeback
Creation
Creativity
Hard Work
Ingenuity
Job Creation
Work Today Hard Work
American People
Washington
Forces
New Jobs
Paycheck
Unleash
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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.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Aisle
Barack
Big Problems
Concern
Issues
People
Ran
Together
Barack Obama
Campaign
Together Problems People
Specifically
Talked
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I may sound naive, since everyone's decided the next two years are going to be all about 2016, but I look at what's happened over the years when there's been divided government. That's when we've done tax reform, that's when we've done entitlement reform - to move this economy forward on these big issues.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Divided
Entitlement
Tax Reform
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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?
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Dollars
Economy
Moving
Tax Dollars
Tax
Washington
Cut
Your Back Go
Employees
Hire
Solution
Send
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I support repeal, but I think we ought to also spend time on the replacement side of that. The Republican approach has never been, 'Let's get rid of this,' but, 'Let's replace it with something that does deal with a very real problem in our healthcare system.' And that is the entry's cost and lack of coverage.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Approach
Cost
Coverage
Entry
Healthcare
Ought
Real Problem
Repeal
Replacement
Rid
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Our folks have a lot of passion. They're very concerned about the direction of the country and concerned the record debt and deficit and what it means for their kids, concerned about the economy and the fact that we're not getting back on track with the weakest economic recovery since the Great Depression. And at the end of the day, I think that's going to make the difference.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Country
Passion
Recovery
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Mitt Romney is talking about the fact that Republicans and Democrats alike have to find common ground to address very real challenges we face as a country. It's a message that's uplifting, it's optimistic. It's about how America can be great again. I think that's the right closing message and I think frankly it's what we need to do as a country after this election regardless of what happens.
Rob Portman / United States Senator
Optimistic
Uplifting
Country
Real
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