Mitt Quotes

Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney‘s former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.

Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.

My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade.

Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn’t have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don’t pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.

My presence in the social media and on the Internet is much bigger than many of the other candidates, including Mitt Romney. So, when you take the social media and you take the Tea Party citizens movement, you have a combination there that, quite frankly, 10 years ago, I wouldn’t have had a chance.

The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in America. They are going to pick Mitt Romney.

I think Mitt Romney is a good man.

Things are not getting better. They are getting worse. We need to elect Mitt Romney to turn things around.

Well, let me tell you, after three years of Obama, we are hopeless and changeless, and we need Mitt Romney to bring us back, to bring America back.

The nominee is Mitt Romney. Paul Ryan joins Mitt Romney. The budget plan, the approach on Medicare and all of that is going to be the Romney plan. What he has is a man as his number two who understands the details of budgets, who has demonstrated a willingness to take on tough issues.

Mitt Romney comes from a family of builders.

Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama‘s new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney.

At the end of the day, Mitt Romney and Ann Romney are two fine people.

When it comes to letting people marry whomever they love, Mitt Romney says, ‘No.’

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

Unlike President Obama, Mitt Romney has been inside the bubble all his life. He has no idea what’s going on here. He has no idea how destructive Bush’s eight years were to this country.

But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people – not governments – create jobs.

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate – which is why Mitt Romney’s political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.

I’m surprised at people who have a passion for Mitt Romney, because he’s taken every position there is. I would cast this guy as the president in a heartbeat… but I just cannot believe a word he says.

When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, ‘The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about’… We keep making that mistake with Putin.

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn’t pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn… If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year‘s time.

Well, Mitt Romney is a very attractive comedic target. He’s irresistible to me. I mean, seriously, I want to pay less attention to him.

Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he’s fixed. I can tell you that Massachusetts wasn’t one of them. He’s a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was more interested in having the job than doing it.

Mitt Romney won the GOP nomination on a platform of ‘self-deportation’ for illegal immigrants – and the Obama team never let Hispanics forget it. The Obama campaign also branded Republicans with Romney’s ill-chosen words about 47 percent of Americans as the party of uncaring millionaires.

Mitt Romney would move the Court even further right, putting landmark decisions like Roe v. Wade at risk. Some say Romney would repeat the past. I disagree – he’d be worse.

Mitt Romney knows America’s prosperity didn’t happen because our government simply spent more. It happened because our people used their own money to open a business.

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn’t confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.

Because my business partner, Mitt Romney, was running for president when ‘Unintended Consequences‘ was published, the media held up my book as a defense of the 1 percent.

You can say that I endorse Mitt Romney, but that’s not just because I’m a white man. We all have things which we’re for and ideas which we support.

I personally – if I were designing the tax code – would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.

Mitt Romney privatizes the gains from his enterprises, but spreads the costs to the rest of us. Seems that ‘free stuff‘ is in the eye of the beholder.

Frankly that’s what makes such a big difference between President Obama on one hand and Mitt Romney on the other. Gov. Romney has not walked in those shoes of the ordinary Americans and frankly I don’t think he has the capacity to quite understand the struggle that the 98 percent of Americans go through every single day.

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he’s going to do a great job.

I was a Mitt Romney Republican because he was pro-business.

Sometimes in this country, we don’t focus a lot on people’s experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.

Either Mitt Romney through his own words and his own signature was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the SEC, which is a felony, or he was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people.

Mitt Romney said many years ago that he thought Russia was the single biggest geopolitical threat to the United States and their presence in a variety of conflicts of one type or another have borne out much of what Mitt Romney said.

Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.

After four years of getting the run-around, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney.

I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I’m sure it’s opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I’ve been pretty effective once I’ve gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

Well, one of the things a lot of Americans don’t know, when Mitt Romney is nominated a few days from now, he will be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, who had run a university and had run the allied war effort. That’s actually a big deal.

I gave Mitt Romney some donations for his campaign because he was a friend, and friendship came first. I’ve always been a Democrat, and I’ve had different views than Mitt Romney. I’m not Mitt Romney, and I think people will realize that when they meet me out there.

Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector.

Mitt Romney understands the importance of Alaska as a leader in our country’s energy production and I look forward to working with him on such an important economic and national security matter.

You can say that Mitt Romney started with nothing! He didn’t get an inheritance from his dad.

As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.

Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.

I’m industrious. Ambitious. I’m like the gay Mitt Romney… That’s a terrible thing to say.

Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.

Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate.

I’ve talked to Mitt Romney. He’s not going to run for this seat. I would be glad for him if he would.

Mitt Romney’s only bottom line is the one at the end of his own bank statement. The problem is that he confuses his own narrow, self-interest – and that of people like him – with the national interest. He thinks as long as we do right by the Mitt Romneys of the world, America will be just fine.

Mitt Romney is a true Mormon. John Edwards and Bill Clinton are not real Mormons. It was not ‘Brigham Young’ they were chanting. It was ‘Bring ’em young.’

What do I know about Mitt Romney? I know that he’s a self-serving egomaniac who puts himself first, who has a chip on his shoulder, and thinks that he should be president of the United States.

After 25 years in business, Mitt Romney understands how jobs come and go, and what we need to do to get our economy back on track.

Hillary is the Mitt Romney of 2016, where she has very little in common with the average person. She doesn’t drive herself anywhere, she doesn’t put on her own makeup, she doesn’t cook her own meals, and she doesn’t research her own materials. She has very little in common with the average woman.

My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney’s sarcastic black maid. We could call it ‘Mammy & Me.’

Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes?

I think liberals would love to see the conservative party be more moderate, more middle of the road. I mean, my gosh, what do you call John McCain? Some would argue, what do you call Mitt Romney?

Mitt Romney, quite simply, doesn’t get it.

I wouldn’t argue that Mitt Romney is a white supremacist.

Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn’t embarrassed by it.

To distract from the president’s disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney’s career as a successful businessman.

I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent – important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.

We don’t have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures – and I quote – ‘hit the bottom’ so the market could – I quote – ‘run its course.’

Mitt Romney, you can criticize him for a lot of things, and that’s fair, but he knows how the economy works.

Mitt Romney not only believes in the values of economic freedom. His entire life has been committed to advancing it.

In choosing Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney made a fantastic choice and a bold statement to the American people.

Donald Trump, unlikely Mitt Romney, is not awkward about his money. He has absolutely no qualms about saying, ‘I’m rich.’

I’ve always viewed Mitt Romney as a very conservative person.

Mitt Romney’s energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake.