Campaign Statements — Mitt Romney
Sunday July 29, 2012
Over the years Iran has amassed a bloody and brutal record. It has seized embassies, targeted diplomats, and killed its own people. It supports the ruthless Assad regime in Syria. They have provided weapons that have killed American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. It has plotted to assassinate diplomats on American soil. It is Iran that is the leading state sponsor of terrorism and the most destabilizing nation in the world.
We have a solemn duty and a moral imperative to deny Iran’s leaders the means to follow through on their malevolent intentions.
We should stand with all who would join our effort to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran – and that includes Iranian dissidents. Do not erase from your memory the scenes from three years ago, when that regime brought death to its own people as they rose up. The threat we face does not come from the Iranian people, but from the regime that oppresses them.
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Sunday July 29, 2012
“I spoke some years ago in Israel at the Herzliya Conference and laid out seven steps to keep Iran from becoming nuclear. They have not been taken, until one, more recently. I said that crippling sanctions needed to be put in place immediately.”Had those sanctions been implemented Iran’s economy “would be on its knees at this point,” “That combined with standing up with Iranian dissidents, the president was silent, when dissidents took to the streets in Tehran. I would have spoken out in favor of representative government and against the Ahmadinejad regime. The president was silent. In addition, I think Ahmadinejad should have been indicted under the genocide conviction,”
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Sunday July 29, 2012
To the north, Syria is on the brink of a civil war. The dictator in Damascus, no friend to Israel and no friend to America, slaughters his own people as he desperately clings to power.
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Sunday July 29, 2012
It is a deeply moving experience to be in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel
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CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Mitt Romney |
Sunday July 29, 2012
Our two nations are separated by more than 5,000 miles. But for an American abroad, you can’t get much closer to the ideals and convictions of my own country than you do in Israel. We’re part of the great fellowship of democracies. We speak the same language of freedom and justice, and the right of every person to live in peace. We serve the same cause and provoke the same hatreds in the same enemies of civilization.
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Friday July 27, 2012
“Clearly we’re disappointed in seeing Tunisia and Morocco elect Islamist governments. We’re very concerned in seeing the new leader in Egypt as an Islamist leader. It is our hope to move these nations toward a more modern view of the world and to not present a threat to their neighbors and to the other nations of the world.”
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CATEGORIES: The Arab Spring | Mitt Romney |
Friday July 27, 2012
“We’re very concerned in seeing the new leader in Egypt as an Islamist leader.”
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Wednesday July 25, 2012
“It is a mistake—and sometimes a tragic one—to think that firmness in American foreign policy can only bring tension or conflict. The surest path to danger is always weakness and indecision.”
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Tuesday July 24, 2012
“Egypt is at the center of this historical drama. In many ways, it has the power to tip the balance in the Arab world toward freedom and modernity. As president, I will not only direct the billions in assistance we give to Egypt toward that goal, but I will also work with partner nations to place conditions on their assistance as well. Unifying our collective influence behind a common purpose will foster the development of a government that represents all Egyptians, maintains peace with Israel, and promotes peace throughout the region. The United States is willing to help Egypt support peace and prosperity, but we will not be complicit in oppression and instability.”
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Tuesday June 26, 2012
“Given the failure of the immigration policy in this country, I would have preferred to see the Supreme Court give more latitude to the states, not less.”
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CATEGORIES: Immigration | Mitt Romney |
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