With an exhaustive investigation complete, would the country finally unify to confront the real challenges before us ? Would we finally be able to move on from partisan paralysis and breathless conspiracy theorizing ? or would we remain consumed by unhinged partisanship, and keep dividing ourselves to the point that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian President Vladimir Putin agents need only stand on the sidelines and watch as their job is done for them ?

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The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.

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All Citizens United did was to level the playing field for corporate speech. We now have, I think, the most free and open system we've had in modern times.

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You'll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.

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Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

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For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.

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The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.

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The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.

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We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

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The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

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The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.

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It's a shame that we have to use whatever leverage we have in Congress to get the president to deal with the biggest problem confronting our future. And that's our excessive spending.

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More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits.

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The biggest problem confronting the country is our excessive spending. If we're not going to deal with it now, when are we going to deal with it? And we've watched the government explode over the last four years. We've dealt with the revenue issue.

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Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.

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The worst experience any majority can have is that you convene and you look around and nothing's ready to go.

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Whether it's before the election or after the election, the principle is the American people are choosing their next president and their next president should pick this Supreme Court nominee.

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America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

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Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!

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We have a debt the size of our economy, which makes us look a lot like Greece.

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For four years, Americans have waited for the faintest light to flicker at the end of the tunnel. And this President has let them down again and again and again. It is time to move on. It is time for a leader who will lead. That leader is Mitt Romney.

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