Mitt Romney quotes

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

#Children #Opportunity #Missing

If I worried about what the media said I wouldn't get much sleep and I'm able to sleep pretty well.
-- Mitt Romney

#Sleep #Media #Able

Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.
-- Mitt Romney

#Strong #Believe #Past

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.
-- Mitt Romney

#Country #Distance #Creating

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

#Balance #Done

We have a long-standing tradition in this country to follow the advice of Senator Vandenberg, which is that politics ends at the water's edge.
-- Mitt Romney

#Country #Water #Long

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

#Tails #Blame #Donkey

While I'm on foreign soil, I - I just don't feel that I should be speaking about differences with regards to myself and President Obama on foreign policy, either foreign policy of the past, or for foreign policy prescriptions.
-- Mitt Romney

#Past #Differences #President

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

#Election #Said #Familiar

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

#President #Walkers

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.
-- Mitt Romney

#Anniversary #Mom #Morning

If you bring [tax] rates down, it makes it easier for small business to keep more of their capital and hire people. And for me, this is about jobs. I want to get America's economy going again. Fifty-four percent of America's workers work in businesses that are taxed as individuals. So when you bring those rates down, those small businesses are able to keep more money and hire more people.
-- Mitt Romney

#Jobs #America #People

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
-- Mitt Romney

#Country #Class #Income

I pray. Prayer is a time to connect with the divine, but also time, I'm sure, to concentrate one's thoughts, to meditate, and to imagine what might be.
-- Mitt Romney

#Prayer #Might #Praying

Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.
-- Mitt Romney

#Humility #Responsibility #America

A leader has the capacity of vision, the ability to see where things are headed before people in general see those things.
-- Mitt Romney

#People #Leader #Vision

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.
-- Mitt Romney

#Running #Country #Powerful

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

#Thinking #People #Want

Obama says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It's time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.
-- Mitt Romney

#Teacher #Stupid #Cutting

I respect the right of Israel to defend itself, and - and we stand with - with Israel. We're a - a nation - two nations that come together in - in peace and that want to see Iran being dissuaded from its nuclear folly.
-- Mitt Romney

#Iran #Two #Israel

You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs.
-- Mitt Romney

#Strong #Eggs #Together

We need to make sure and that we can continue to move forward in creating jobs and getting the economy turned around. The best way to do that is to make sure that we can get Congress to adopt the American Jobs Act.
-- Mitt Romney

#Jobs #Moving #Creating

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

#Apology #Values

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.
-- Mitt Romney

#Morning #Mean #America

I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very well indeed. My ancestors once owned slaves, and it is in my lineage to work closely with the black community. However, just because they were freed over a century ago doesn’t mean they can now be freeloaders. They need to be told to work hard, and the incentives just aren’t there for them anymore. When I’m president I plan to work closely with the black community to bring a sense of pride and work ethic back into view for them.
-- Mitt Romney

#Mean #Hard Work #Pride

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

#America #President #Wish

We [American nation] can now, by virtue of new technology, actually get all the energy we need in North America without having to go to the - the Arabs or the Venezuelans or anyone else. That's why my policy starts with a very robust policy to get all that energy in North America, become energy-secure.
-- Mitt Romney

#Technology #America #Needs

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.
-- Mitt Romney

#Opportunity #America #Government

Our party [Republicans] has been focused on big business too long. I came through small business. I understand how hard it is to start a small business. That's why everything I'll do is designed to help small businesses grow and add jobs. I want to keep their taxes down on small business. I want regulators to see their job as encouraging small enterprise, not crushing it.
-- Mitt Romney

#Crush #Jobs #Party

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.
-- Mitt Romney

#Love #Believe #Stupid People

I happen to believe that if we want to replace a lifetime politician like Barack Obama, who had no experience leading anything, we've got to nominate a leader if we're going to replace someone who is not a leader.
-- Mitt Romney

#Believe #Leader #Want

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

#Opportunity #United States #Constitution

For me, politics is not a career. For me, my career was being in business and starting a business and making it successful. My life's passion has been my family, my faith and my country.
-- Mitt Romney

#Country #Passion #Successful

I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.
-- Mitt Romney

#Senior #Running #Retirement

I've seen a lot of government try to solve problems, and it didn't work. And my view is that the right course for America is to have someone who understands how the economy works who will passionately get America back on track.
-- Mitt Romney

#Government #Views #America

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.
-- Mitt Romney

#Jesus #Powerful #Soul

I do not favor same-sex marriage. I oppose same-sex marriage, and that has been my view. But, but if people are looking for someone who will discriminate against gays or will in any way try and suggest that people that have different sexual orientation don't have full rights in this country, they won't find that in me.
-- Mitt Romney

#Country #Sex #Gay