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							<title><![CDATA[President Trump's Character Falls Short]]></title>
							<link>https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/01/02/mitt-romney-commentary/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Trump presidency made a deep descent in December. The departures of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, the appointment of senior persons of lesser experience, the abandonment of allies who fight beside us, and the president&rsquo;s thoughtless...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Absurd Excuse for Defense Cuts]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-romney-the-world-needs-a-mighty-us-military/2014/09/04/f5234064-342d-11e4-a723-fa3895a25d02_story.html?hpid=z4</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Russia invades, China bullies, Iran spins centrifuges, the Islamic State (a terrorist threat &ldquo;beyond anything that we&rsquo;ve seen,&rdquo; according to the defense secretary ) threatens &mdash; and Washington slashes the military. Reason stares.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Price of Failed Leadership]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304747404579445170801186310</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why are there no good choices? From Crimea to North Korea, from Syria to Egypt, and from Iraq to Afghanistan, America apparently has no good options. If possession is nine-tenths of the law, Russia owns Crimea and all we can do is sanction and disinvite&mdash;and wring our hands.Iran is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Transcript of Mitt Romney's Concession Speech]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/11/06/transcript_of_mitt_romneys_concession_speech_116109.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Boston Convention &amp; Exhibition Center
Boston, MA
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, my friends. Thank you so very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I have just called President Obama to congratulate him on his victory. His supporters and his campaign also deserve...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's Speech at the Al Smith Dinner]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/10/18/mitt_romneys_speech_at_the_al_smith_dinner_115842.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New York City, New York
MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Thank you, thank you. Thank you so much. Your Eminence, Cardinal Dolan, Mr. President, Governor Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg, Senator Schumer, Al and Ann Smith. Thank you for your invitation. Thank you for your extraordinary warm...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's Speech at the Clinton Global Initiative]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/09/25/mitt_romneys_speech_at_the_clinton_global_initiative_115585.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New York, New York
Thank you, Mr. President. I appreciate the kind words and your invitation here today.
If there&rsquo;s one thing we&rsquo;ve learned this election season, it&rsquo;s that a few words from Bill Clinton can do any man a lot of good. After that introduction, I guess all I...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Needs Recovery, Not Dependency]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/story/2012-09-18/Romney-47-recovery-dependency/57804214/1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since our founding, America has promoted personal responsibility, the dignity of work and the value of education. Those values made our nation the hope of the earth and our economy the envy of the world.Efforts that promote hard work and personal responsibility over government dependency...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney's Remarks to the National Guard Association Conference]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/09/11/romneys_remarks_to_the_national_guard_association_115420.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reno, Nevada
Major General Vavala, thank you for your generous introduction. And thank you for your years of service as Chairman of the Board &ndash; and for your decades of service to our nation.
Ladies and gentlemen of the National Guard Association, it is an honor to be with you on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's Acceptance Speech at the RNC]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/08/30/mitt_romneys_acceptance_speech_at_the_republican_national_convention_115280.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tampa Bay Times Forum
Tampa, Florida
Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America.
I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.
Tonight I am asking you...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What I Learned at Bain Capital]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444270404577605140607907860.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The back-to-school season is here, and as parents take their children to shop for school supplies, I suspect that many of them will be visiting a Staples store. I'm very familiar with those stores because Staples is one of many businesses we helped create and expand at Bain Capital, a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's Speech in Chillicothe, Ohio]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/08/14/mitt_romneys_speech_in_chillicothe_ohio_115116.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Chillicothe, Ohio 
Thank you, Ohio. It&rsquo;s good to be back in the Buckeye State. And it&rsquo;s a privilege to be here with two good friends - your great governor, John Kasich and your outstanding senator, Rob Portman. Governor Kasich is doing a great job despite the head winds from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney's Speech in Jerusalem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/07/29/romneys_speech_in_jerusalem_114950.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MITT ROMNEY: ... among the most impressive democracies on earth. Israel's achievements are a wonder of the modern world. These achievements are a tribute to the resilience of the Israeli people.
You've managed against all odds, time and again, throughout your history to persevere, to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's Speech on the Shooting in Colorado]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/07/20/mitt_romneys_speech_on_the_shooting_in_colorado_114876.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Good morning and thank you for joining us, the senator and me, on this very sad day. And thank you to Father Christian for beginning this gathering with a &mdash; with a word of prayer.
Our &mdash; our hearts break with the sadness of this unspeakable tragedy.
Ann and I join the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Are the Jobs Mr. President?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/05/mitt_romney_issues_ohio_challe.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Ohio. I have a simple question for you: Where are the jobs?As we enter the fourth year of your term, unemployment is over 8 percent and has been for your entire term. Nearly 23 million men and women are unemployed, underemployed or are no longer even looking for work. In the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's Wisconsin Victory Speech]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/04/03/mitt_romneys_wisconsin_victory_speech_113734.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ROMNEY: Thank you. Congressman Ryan, he's a great leader, wonderful speaker, but he's not going to take Ann's place, I'm going to tell you that.
(APPLAUSE)
Thank you for providing the thank yous this evening, Congressman. Thank you all -- also to Senator Johnson and Congressman...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I'd Repeal ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-03-22/mitt-romney-health-reform-repeal-obamacare/53711598/1</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Friday is the second anniversary of ObamaCare. It is past time to abolish the program, root and branch. The Supreme Court will soon have a crack at this; arguments about the program's constitutionality open before it next week. But whatever the justices decide in what is certain to be a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's Illinois Victory Speech]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/03/20/mitt_romneys_illinois_victory_speech_113565.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ROMNEY: Thanks, you guys. So many great friends in this room and across Illinois. What a night. Thank you, Illinois. What a night. Wow. (APPLAUSE)
And, of course, I'd like to congratulate my fellow candidates on a hard-fought contest here. I'd like to thank in particular the volunteers...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stopping Iran's Nuclear Ambitions]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-romney-how-i-would-check-irans-nuclear-ambition/2012/03/05/gIQAneYItR_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Beginning Nov. 4, 1979 , dozens of U.S. diplomats were held hostage by Iranian Islamic revolutionaries for 444 days  while America&#194;&#146;s feckless president, Jimmy Carter, fretted in the White House. Running for the presidency against Carter the next year, Ronald Reagan made it crystal clear...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's Super Tuesday Victory Speech]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/03/06/mitt_romneys_super_tuesday_victory_speech_113401.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A. ROMNEY: So far, three wins tonight and counting. So here we go. We have ten states to thank people in. I'm going to see if I can get through this list. So let me see if I can do this.
In Alaska, by the way, they haven't even caucused yet, but we are going to thank them anyway....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's Michigan Victory Speech]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/28/mitt_romneys_michigan_victory_speech_113295.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ANN ROMNEY, MITT ROMNEY'S WIFE: As usual, I have a long list of thank-yous, and I'm going to see if you're all going to behave and listen to this list without cheering in between. We'll see if you can get this right.
Thank you to our honorary Michigan chairman, Governor Rick Schneider,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Tax Reform to Restore America's Prosperity]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203960804577239672484987172.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When generations of immigrants looked up and saw the Statue of Liberty for the first time, they surely had many questions and doubts about the life before them. Yet one thing they knew without a doubt&mdash;in America anything was possible, and their children would have a better...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Taxpayers Should Get GM Shares' Proceeds]]></title>
							<link>http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120214/OPINION01/202140336/1008/opinion01/Romney-op-ed-U-S-autos-bailout-crony-capitalism-grand-scale</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I am a son of Detroit. I was born in Harper Hospital and lived in the city until my family moved to Oakland County.I grew up drinking Vernors and watching ballgames at Michigan &amp; Trumbull. Cars got in my bones early. And not just any cars, American cars.When the president of American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney's Florida Victory Speech]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/01/31/mitt_romneys_florida_victory_speech_112988.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Thanks, you guys! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much.
Thank you to the people in this room and to the people all over Florida, thank you tonight for this great victory. There are -- there are fewer -- there are fewer candidates tonight than...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Kind of Society Does America Want?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2011-12-19/romney-us-economy-entitlements/52076252/1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In less than a year, the American people will go to the polls and choose a new president. A matter of great moment is at stake in this election. The question we will decide is this: Will the United States be an Entitlement Society or an Opportunity Society?In an Entitlement Society,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Won't Let Iran Get Nukes]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204224604577027921373481512.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The International Atomic Energy Agency's latest report this week makes clear what I and others have been warning about for too long: Iran is making rapid headway toward its goal of obtaining nuclear weapons.Successive American presidents, including Barack Obama, have declared such an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China Must Respect Free Trade System]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/romney-china-must-respect-the-free-trade-system/2011/10/13/gIQAiffViL_story.html?hpid=z2</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The feckless economic policies of the Obama administration have resulted in a 10 percent decline in our median income, persistent unemployment above 8 percent and collapsing home and asset values.Understandably, some ask whether we should abandon the economic principles behind our...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rick Perry Wants to Dismantle Social Security]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/09/22/future-social-security/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What should we do about Social Security? Unfortunately, the issue is becoming contentious among my fellow Republicans in destructive ways.Social Security is our country&rsquo;s fundamental safety net for Americans facing old age and disability. The program was hotly contested at the time...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[My Plan to Turn Around the U.S. Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2011-09-05/Romney-My-10-point-plan-to-create-American-jobs/50265720/1</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has had his turn at fixing the American economy. Millions of unemployed Americans can judge by their own experiences what he has done and failed to do.Roughly half of our columns come from our Board of Contributors, a group whose interests range from education to religion to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[As First Act, Full Repeal of ObamaCare]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-05-11-Romney-on-fixing-health-care_n.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Health care is more than just one-sixth of the American economy. It is a source of well-being for individuals and families. We are blessed with much that is good in American health care. But we have taken a turn for the worse with ObamaCare, with its high taxes and vastly expanded...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Jobs, Where Is Obama?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-03-31-column31_ST1_N.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mitt Romney</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sometimes truth arrives from the most unexpected sources. Christina Romer, President Obama's former chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, said last week that she was dismayed at Washington's lack of focus on jobs."I frankly don't understand why policymakers  aren't more...]]></description>
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