Rob Portman Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

How Does The Weakness Of The Dollar Affect Your Business?

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.

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.

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.

I Told My Staff That I'm So Boring That I Didn't Even Know I Was Boring.

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.

If You Can't Even Acknowledge That You Have To Fix Social Security, That's Not A Very Good Starting Point.