“In France, for instance, I'm told that marriage is now frequently contracted in seven-year terms where either party may move on when their term is up. How shallow and how different from the Europe of the past.”

— Mitt Romney

[2007-05-06, Romney Reaches to the Christian Right, Perry Bacon Jr., The Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/05/AR2007050501081.html]
2007 campaign for Republican nomination for United States President

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