American - Politician | March 26, 1960 -
I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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It's a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it's now or years from now, we'll have an incendiary situation. Should we stay and play traffic cop? I don't think that serves our strategic interests.
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That's what governors do, they wrestle with the issues, they find solutions and they move the agenda forward. At the appropriate time we'll talk about all of these issues, while remembering that our party is a big tent party. We lose when we try to become exclusive to one particular set of issues.
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I had the trade minister in China sit down as we were preparing for trade negotiations. He said, 'Please don't let people in the United States lose their confidence because when you lose your confidence, the rest of the world suffers'.
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The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.
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Normal people don't just wake up in the morning and say I think it'd be a good idea to run for president of the United States.
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I'm a true native of the Bay Area.
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Today, I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America. My kids can't believe I just said that.
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I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.
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I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president.
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I can't stomach the thought that we are passing down to the next generation a country that is less viable, less good, less competitive, less compassionate than the one we got.
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For those of us who have lived abroad and seen our nation in a highly competitive 21st century, and kind of see where this world is going - unless we are able to strengthen our core, we're going to see the end of the American century. And that is totally unacceptable.
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