Mitt Romney Quotes

It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!

There are a number of things that sound good, but frankly, we just can't afford them. And Obamacare doesn't sound good and it's not affordable.

I bathe in statistics.

My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate, they know that this is the place that we were born and raised.

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.

On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record?

We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona.

President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their team have failed the American people, and that is why their majority will soon be out the door.

Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

I believe marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.

Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it.

I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country.

I'm a strong believer in stating your position and not wavering.

PETA is not happy that my dog likes fresh air.

We have a president, who I think is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard, perhaps.

I will fight for oil, coal and natural gas.

We use Ann sparingly right now so that people don't get tired of her.

Join me in welcoming the next president of the United States, Paul Ryan.

We have a potentially volatile situation but we sort of live with it, and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it.

When the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.

America has not dictated to other nations. We have freed other nations from dictators.

Corporations are people, my friend.

It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done.

It's not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.

Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.

We're all a nation that believes we're children of the same god.

Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people.

So, for instance, let me make this clear: You know I signed a statement. I will not raise taxes on anybody. I don't want to raise taxes on the American people.

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.

Donald Trump is not the real deal. I think as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio made that very clear.

President Obama attacks success and therefore under President Obama we have less success and I will change that.

Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.

Planned Parenthood, we're going to get rid of that.

When you give a speech you don't go through a laundry list, you talk about the things that you think are important.

President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family.

I was in the world of business for 25 years. If you didn't balance your budget, you went out of business.

I like those fancy raincoats you bought. Really sprung for the big bucks.

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.

There is no day more joyful in my life than when I see all my family around me. That's the best it gets.

I'm a family guy. Most important thing in my life by far is my relationship with my wife and my sons, daughters-in-law, and 18 grandchildren. And for me, this is all about them.

I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.

I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there.