Campaign Statements — Mitt Romney

Saturday December 10, 2011

“I’d get on the phone to my friend Bibi Netanyahu and say…‘What would you like me to do?’”

“And therefore, before I made a statement of that nature, I’d get on the phone to my friend Bibi Netanyahu and say, ‘Would it help if I said this? What would you like me to do? Let’s work together, because we’re partners.’ I’m not a bomb thrower, rhetorically or literally.”


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Saturday December 10, 2011

“If we disagree with them…we don’t do it in public.”

“My view is this: We stand with the Israeli people. We link arms with them. If we disagree with them, like this president has time and time again, we don’t do it in public like he’s done it, we do it in private. And we let the Israeli leadership describe what they believe the right course is going forward.”


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Saturday December 10, 2011

“No favoritism…for those that have come here illegally.”

“I do not want to do something which encourages another wave of illegal immigration. So, from my view—viewpoint, the key—the key measure is this: No favoritism for permanent residency or citizenship for those that have come here illegally.”


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CATEGORIES: Immigration | Mitt Romney |

Saturday December 10, 2011

“Settle their affairs and then return home and get in line at the back of the line.”

“Secure the border. Once we do that, we can start talking about the 11 million or whatever number that may be that are in the country illegally. My own view is those 11—11 million people should register the fact that they’re here in the country. They should be given some transition period of time to allow them to—settle their affairs and then return home and get in the—in line at the back of the line with everybody else that wants to come here.”


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CATEGORIES: Immigration | Mitt Romney |

Wednesday December 07, 2011

“The bonds between Israel and the United States are unshakable.”

“I will travel to Israel on my first foreign trip. I will reaffirm as a vital national interest Israel’s existence as a Jewish state. I want the world to know that the bonds between Israel and the United States are unshakable. I want every country in the region that harbors aggressive designs against Israel to understand that their ambition is futile and that pursuing it will cost them dearly.”


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Wednesday December 07, 2011

“A nuclear-armed Iran is not only a threat to Israel, [but] to the entire world.”

“I would not meet with Ahmadinejad. He should be excluded from diplomatic society. He should be indicted for the crime of incitement to genocide under Article III of the Genocide Convention. Iran’s ayatollahs will not be permitted to obtain nuclear weapons on my watch. A nuclear-armed Iran is not only a threat to Israel, it is a threat to the entire world. Our friends must never fear that we will not stand by them in an hour of need. Our enemies should never doubt our resolve.”


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CATEGORIES: Iran | Israel/Palestine | Mitt Romney |

Wednesday December 07, 2011

“[Obama has] publicly proposed that Israel adopt indefensible borders.”

“No, over the past three years, President Obama has instead chastened Israel. In his inaugural address to the United Nations, the President chastised Israel, but said little about the thousands of Hamas rockets raining into its skies. He’s publicly proposed that Israel adopt indefensible borders. He’s insulted its Prime Minister. And he’s been timid and weak in the face of the existential threat of a nuclear Iran.”


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CATEGORIES: Iran | Israel/Palestine | Mitt Romney |

Wednesday December 07, 2011

“[Obama’s] actions have emboldened Palestinian hard-liners.”

“[Obama’s] actions have emboldened Palestinian hard-liners who now are poised to form a unity government with terrorist Hamas and feel they can bypass Israel at the bargaining table. President Obama has immeasurably set back the prospect of peace in the Middle East.”


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CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Mitt Romney |

Tuesday November 22, 2011

“Obama says that we have people throughout the world with common interests. I don’t agree with him.”

“President Obama feels that we’re going to be a nation which has multipolar balancing militaries. I believe that American military superiority is the right course. President Obama says that we have people throughout the world with common interests. I just don’t agree with him. I think there are people in the world that want to oppress other people, that are evil.”


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CATEGORIES: Islamophobia | Mitt Romney | War on Terror |

Tuesday November 22, 2011

“We want those brains in our country.”

“We want those brains in our country. But in order to bring people in legally we’ve got to stop illegal immigration. That means turning off the magnets of amnesty, in-state tuition for illegal aliens, employers that knowingly hire people that have come here illegally.”


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