Rob Portman Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happen, Negative

• 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

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  Tags in Hurt, Help

• What we need is fundamental tax reform.

  Rob Portman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Need, Tax, Reform

• 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

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Need

• We have a paralysis in Washington that’s not serving our country. We have to address these issues.

  Rob Portman

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Issues

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in past, Need, Year

• 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

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  Tags in Moving, Back, Need

• Things are not getting better. They are getting worse. We need to elect Mitt Romney to turn things around.

  Rob Portman

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  Tags in Better, Need

• There is so much uncertainty out there, and the government in Washington doesn’t seem to get it. What’s needed is a new business environment.

  Rob Portman

  Topics in Business

  Tags in New, Government

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Same, Sometimes, President

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Today, New, Help

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tired, Look, Here

• The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

  Rob Portman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Times, Tax, Longer

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Here, Talk, Able

• 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

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  Tags in Trying, Said

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Sometimes

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Need, Together, Big

• It’s not about sizzle for me. I think it’s fine. I mean, America made a decision in 2008 to go with a president who did have sizzle.

  Rob Portman

  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in Mean, Made

• If you start very far to the left, it’s harder to get to the middle.

  Rob Portman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Start, Far, Left

• If you start very far to the left, it’s harder to get to the middle.

  Rob Portman

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  Tags in Start, Far, Left

Rob Portman (30)

Birth:	19th December, 1955
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

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