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Virtually unopposed, a man had created a permanent under class in america, i thought somebody has to run against him. i happened to have been wise enough to realize i did not have a ghost of a chance of beating him. a republican from massachusetts was going to beat ted kennedy. i told my partners in my firm, i will be back in six months, don't take my chair. i was happy that he had to take a mortgage out on his house to ultimately defeat me. i am very proud of the fact that i have stood up as a citizen to battle where i felt it was best for the nation, and we're talking about running for presi...

Were governor, and you were going all over the country, and you were out of state consistently, and you then promptly re-entered politics and lost to mccain as you did to kennedy. you have been running consistently for years and years, and then suddenly citizenship showed up in your minds, and just level with the american people, you have been running since the 1990s. >> governor, please. >> mr. speaker, citizenship has always been on my mind. and i happened to see my dad run for governor when he was 54 years old. he had good advice to me. he said never get involved in politics if you have to ...

Both from wall street and from the insiders in washington d.c. that got us in this problem. we need a candidate that can not only draw that stark contrast between themselves and barack obama, but also stand up and lead the tea party movement back. 2010 was about the tea party standing up and understanding that republicans, big-spending republicans had caused as much of the problem as anything. it was their power that brought together -- that brought washington, d.c. and the house to republican control, and that's the kind of individual that we have to have to lead this election. >> governor ro...

Governor romney be the nominee? what is disqualifying in your judgment? >> if his record is so great, why didn't he run for re-election. if you won't stand behind the people of massachusetts, if your record was that great why did you bail out? the bottom line is, i go and fight the fight. if it was that important to the people of massachusetts that were going to fight for them, at least you can stand up and make the battle that you did a good job. i ran for re-election a couple times and ran a couple times, and i was redistricts. i was in a 71% democratic district, it was a hard thing to do. m...

Failed attempt for running for president, to sit down and write a book, and people can describe it in different ways, but my view is that the principles that i learned in business and the principles as governor, frankly it made me more conservative as time has gone on. i have seen a lot of government trying to solve problems, and it didn't work. the right course for america is to have somebody who understands how the economy works, and will passionately get back on track. >> this is an age of austerity for the country, and a jobs crisis and spending crisis in washington. i wonder what specific...