Mitt Romney Quotes

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it.

I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin.

I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.

My wife drives a couple of Cadillacs.

I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.

I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.

I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.

When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.

It's not appropriate to joke about the Ku Klux Klan.

I know what it takes to balance budgets. I have done it my entire life.

I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I'll fix it.

Let Detroit go bankrupt.

I went to a number of women's groups and said, "Can you help us find folks," and they brought us whole binders full of women.

If anyone accuses me of lying, I'll simply say I'm not lying, which is just an extension of the overall lying strategy.

I like being able to fire people.

Don't try to stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom.

Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.

I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.

Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

What's up, gangstas? It's the M-I-Double-Tizzle.

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.

The TARP program was nevertheless necessary to keep banks from collapsing in a cascade of failures.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed.

I didn't talk to anybody and say, "I'm going to do a speech, do you go some ideas?" This is something I did on my own because I care very deeply about the country.

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

The multiculturalism movement must be unmasked for the fraud that it is. There are superior cultures, and ours is one of them.

There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda.

Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.

Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

Government does not create jobs. Government does not create jobs.

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

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.

President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless.

I bathe in statistics.

Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them.