Jon Huntsman, Jr.

“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 g...”

“I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious talk about a balanced budget amendment, which we as governors always had to...”

“My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ide...”

“If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.”

“Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.”

“But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.”

“It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up.”

“If you can't define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we're wasting our money, and we're wasting our strategic resources.”

“You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness.”

“I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the a...”

“We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirati...”

“In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records - which was a major step in getting costs out of...”

“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 w...”

“I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know...”

“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...”

“My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradi...”

“I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides.”

“The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.”