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Amerigo Vespucci

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Sun Jul 29, 2012, 03:17 PM Jul 2012

Salon: Five ridiculous Ann Romney quotes

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Sunday, Jul 29, 2012 06:00 AM PDT

Five ridiculous Ann Romney quotes

Keep talking, Ann. The little people are all ears

By Lynn Parramore, Alternet



http://www.salon.com/2012/07/29/5_offensive_ann_romney_quotes_salpart/

“We can be poor in spirit, and I don’t even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing,” said Ann Romney to Fox News . “It can be here today and gone tomorrow.”

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“I love the fact that there are women out there who don’t have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too. And sometimes life isn’t easy for any of us.”

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When newlyweds Ann and Mitt Romney were living together while attending Brigham Young, things were pretty swell. “We were happy, studying hard,” Romney said in an infamous Boston Globe interview back in 1994 , when Mittens was running for the senate. “Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time,” she explained.

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In an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America “ that quickly went viral, Mrs. Romney got huffy when asked why American voters would not be vouchsafed a look at Mitt’s latest tax returns. “We’ve given all you people need to know,” she sniffed.
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