Mitt Romney Quotes

The greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran...

No one is talking about restructuring Social Security or Medicare for current retirees or for those that are near retirement. For those under 55, the answer is let's talk about it.

I think the minimum wage outght to keep pace with inflation. I think the minimum wage is a good thing to have in our country and I think it ought to be updated.

I think people want to see change, want to see something new and Hillary Clinton is just not that person.

It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.

So if we use birth control we don't need to be married?

I did not direct any of my investments nor did I know of these investments.

I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant - that plant kills people.

The American people should be free to advocate for their candidates and their positions without burdensome limitations.

It was absolutely critical to renew the Bush tax cuts. Letting them expire would result in a massive tax increase that would retard economic growth.

When government is... bailing out banks... we have every good reason to be alarmed.

The right way to proceed when we face the kind of challenges we face is to pursue the strategy which Ronald Reagan pursued when we faced the challenges of the last century.

I was an avidly pro-life governor; I'm an avidly pro-life individual. As a pro-life Republican, I am in favor of having the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade.

I believe the world benefits from American leadership. I believe this next century should be an American century.

Endorsed by Bob Jones, despite calling Mormonism a "cult".

Ok to appoint atheists or agnostics-no litmus test of faith.

What we have said and - and - and with which I concur is that we should use every diplomatic and political vehicle that's available to us to keep Iran from becoming a nuclear capability state.

President Obama trusts in the wisdom of government. I put my trust in the ingenuity and creativity and commitment to hard work of the American people.

I don't want to be creating new foreign policy for - for my country or in any way to distance myself in the foreign policy of - of our nation, but we respect the right of a nation to defend itself.

America needs a president who can fix the economy because he understands the economy, and I do and I will.

Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans, but I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.

Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history.

Ronald Reagan was able to accomplish extraordinary purposes for our country without having to put our military forces into conflict.

[on L. Ron Hubbard] I'm not in favor of his religion by any means. But he wrote a book called 'Battlefield Earth' that was a very fun science-fiction book.

George Herbert Walker Bush. He was a pretty-pretty great President and anything but.

Look, I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.

There are a lot of reasons not to elect me...

I don't just talk about change. I actually have a plan to execute change and make it happen.

Freedom requires religion in society, not in individuals.

No mandatory prison term for employers who hire illegals.

I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.

I support the work of the NRA, but disagree sometimes.

No punishment for women who have partial birth abortions.

I took action as governor to preserve the sanctity of life.

Supreme Court had said feds should stay out of abortion.

I will work and fight for stem cell research.

I don't support any gun-control legislation - the effort for a new assault-weapons ban, with a ban on semiautomatic weapons, is something I would oppose.

I believe very firmly in the principle of free agency - people making their own decisions and doing what they think is right.

An apology for America's values is never the right course.

This is a time of great challenges for America, and I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation.

But in the business I had, we invested in over 100 different businesses and net-net, taking out the ones where we lost jobs and those that we added, those businesses have now added over 100,000 jobs.

This nation is the hope of the Earth.

You know, circumstances can change, but I'm just not going to let my head go there.

Republicans should never abandon pro-growth conservative principles in an effort to embrace the ideas of Al Gore.

If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him.

I want to help small businesses grow and thrive. I know how to make that happen. I spent my life in the private sector. I know why jobs come and why they go.

People who are government servants, public servants, should not be paid more than the taxpayers who are paying for it.

If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote.

It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.

Let me tell you, the heart of my tax proposal: I will not raise taxes on the American people. I will not raise taxes on middle-income Americans.