Bob McDonnell Quotes

• Anytime you have a reelection campaign against an incumbent president and you’re the party out of power – on the one hand it’s wide open because there’s not an heir apparent – but people are also gauging how strong is that incumbent president and what are my chances.

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  Tags in Strong

• Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream?

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  Tags in American

• Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

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  Tags in Care, Duty

• Every governor’s got tough choices to make.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Choice, Governor

• Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people’s individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction.

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  Tags in Healthcare, Government

• Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.

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  Tags in Time, Good, Government

• I am all for using business – public and private – to expand healthcare coverage.

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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Public, Private

• Expanding Medicaid without fixing Medicaid is a terrible idea.

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  Tags in Idea, Terrible

• I don’t think the objective of an abortion clinic is to try to talk women out of having the procedure. That obviously would not be positive for their bottom line.

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  Tags in Women

• I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.

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  Tags in Energy, Wanted

• I tell you what Hispanics in Virginia tell me they want. They want access to the American dream. That’s why they come here to Virginia and to America, so they want more opportunities to start small business, better schools.

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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Better

• I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do.

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  Topics in Life, Respect

  Tags in Better

• I think in Washington, D.C., a lot of people are talking down about business.

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  Topics in Business

• I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship.

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  Tags in Happy

• I’m really the candidate who has really lived his whole life in suburbia.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Lived

• Jobs are what give people a sense of fulfillment and self-reliance.

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  Topics in Job

  Tags in Sense

• Military families so much appreciate the love, support and prayers.

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  Tags in Support

• I’m chairman of the Republican Governors Association.

  Bob McDonnell

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  Tags in Republican, Governors

• Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

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  Tags in Medical, Abortion

• My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Women

Bob McDonnell (32)

Birth:	15th July, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Attorney, Businessman, Politician, Soldier

About

Bob McDonnell is a Republican politician. He was the 71st Governor of Virginia. McDonnell served on the executive committee of the Republican Governors Association. McDonnell was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1992 to 2006, and was Attorney General of Virginia from 2006 to 2009.

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