Mitt Romney Quotes (92 Quotes)


    I feel very deeply that the people's voice should be heard -- that a matter such as the definition of marriage is fundamental in our society, and that the citizens should have a right to be heard,

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

    She's gone down the liberal road, and I've gone down the conservative road, ... You've seen the jobs being chased away from your state, and we've seen jobs grow in our state.

    Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.

    this water was more than had been expected or anticipated.


    Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.

    The people of Massachusetts should not be excluded from a decision as fundamental to our society as the definition of marriage. This issue is too important to leave to a one-vote majority of the Supreme Judicial Court.

    are revisiting and reviewing what is a very solid public safety plan. We will make every effort to assure the safety of the games for the athletes, spectators, sponsors, guests and the venue communities.

    In the future, if an event of that nature occurs, I can direct the state police to step in and clear the disturbance, and if necessary, make arrests. And that is exactly what I intend to do,

    I've got my fingers crossed that this thing is able to hold. There is every prospect that it will give way and we'll have a very significant water event.

    All along, I have said an issue as fundamental to society as the definition of marriage should be decided by the people. Until then, I intend to follow the law and expect others to do the same.

    Now Republicans are joining in on the criticism. Presidential hopefuls Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have been quoted critiquing the President and the federal response to the disaster. Gingrich wondered, If we can't respond faster than this to an event we saw coming across the Gulf for days, then why do we think we're prepared to respond to a nuclear or biological attack ... an embarrassment.

    The all clear will be sounded on a local basis, ... Recognize we were ready for something more substantial than hit. We have to be.

    Kids in our urban schools, most of them minorities, are not succeeding at anywhere near the rate of their counterparts in the suburbs. And let me be clear the failure of our urban schools to prepare our children today for the challenges of tomorrow is the civil rights issue of our generation.

    Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America.

    Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

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

    We are not going to know ages and needs until they actually land,

    There were a number of bands that were unable to accept our invitation, ... It is a sacrifice for them to come here.

    The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say, 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'

    America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion dollars ago.

    Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

    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.

    Of course, citizens also failed. Tom Ridge, former head of homeland security, said each of us should have a two-week supply of water and medical supplies and food. It looks like very few people listened to what he had to say,

    We are spending too much money. Our discretionary spending - taking out Iraq and mandatory spending - grew 49 percent in four years. Our debt has grown. Pork is always dispiriting. But pork being spent at a time of war is particularly dispiriting.

    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.

    The church through its Catholic Charities provides an extraordinary service to the commonwealth by placing many special needs children every year in homes. That's a service I hope we will continue to be able to avail ourselves of.

    These games and the preparation leading up to these games will be held at the highest level of ethical conduct, ... code of conduct that each member of the (SLOC) will sign and live by.

    Our economy is on the move and we are creating thousands of new jobs, but we need to keep our foot on the gas pedal.

    We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the economic superpower and military superpower of the planet. That's just not going to happen, ... We're in a position where unless we take action, we'll end up being the France of the 21st century a lot of talk, but not a lot of strength behind it in terms of economic capability.

    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.

    Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

    It is so superheated here. I don't quite understand, ... One thing I would never do is to run for an office and then immediately upon being elected to it, begin running for a different office.

    People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

    Today we honor those who have lost their lives in senseless drunk driving tragedies and act to save the lives we could otherwise lose next year,

    The ability to close the achievement gap is the civil rights issue of our generation, ... This is the way to do it.

    Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

    I would like the right to be able to represent the people and my own office before the courts of Massachusetts on an important matter such as the one that we're referring to today,

    The managers have messed up big time, ... The athletes haven't. Our job is to go to work for the athletes.

    I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.


    We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.

    And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.

    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 have a little bad news ... We don't have a lunch being prepared for you today, but I will treat you all to a pizza as one last gesture,

    Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.

    I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

    I'm proud to be from Massachusetts, where John Kerry will be the junior senator until 2008. You see, I don't believe Senator Kerry is the leader our country needs.


    There are a lot of Republicans nationally who think that's -- including the president -- who think that's wrong. He said he'd veto a bill that took the position that I took,


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