You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I think there is need for economic stimulus... and government can help make that up in a very difficult time. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
This country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I've said time and again, I'm a pro-life candidate, I'll be a pro-life president. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
People who are government servants, public servants, should not be paid more than the taxpayers who are paying for it. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
When government is... bailing out banks... we have every good reason to be alarmed. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
With these 11 million people here illegally, let's have them registered, know who they are, those that are her paying taxes and… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
President Obama trusts in the wisdom of government. I put my trust in the ingenuity and creativity and commitment to hard work… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I'm not looking to cut massive taxes and to reduce the...the revenues going to the government. My...my number-one principal is, there will… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
During the Reagan years, government shut down eight different times under a Democrat Congress. The president and Congress worked together and got… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I happen to believe that if we want to replace a lifetime politician like Barack Obama, who had no experience leading anything...… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The president mentioned a couple of other ideas I'll just note. First, education. I agree: Education is key, particularly the future of… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in getting money from where the money is, and the money is in Washington. I learned from running… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
In the political environment that exists today, the opposition research of the Obama campaign is looking for anything they can use to… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Rick, I'll tell you what. Ten thousand bucks? Ten thousand dollar bet? — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
It's not government that makes business successful. It's not government investments that makes businesses grow and hire people. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I've been in politics now for long enough to not worry about what others are saying, but instead to talk about what… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I love my dad. It's fair to say that I probably would not have thought of politics had I not seen my… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of government try to solve problems, and it didn't work. And my view is that the right course… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I don't like to have the federal government start pushing its weight deeper and deeper into our schools. Let the states and… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I don't know any nation on Earth that succeeded in creating a strong middle class with rising wages based on building a… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I look at what's happening around the world and I see Iran four years closer to a bomb. I see the Middle East with… — Mitt Romney Copy Share
I believe in my Mormon faith, and I endeavor to live by it. My faith is the faith of my fathers - I will… — Mitt Romney Copy Share
America's military is second to none in the world. We're blessed with terrific soldiers, and extraordinary technology and intelligence. But the idea of a… — Mitt Romney Copy Share
And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share
When I was elected governor of my state, I had a legislature 87 percent Democrat. It was not lost on me that to get… — Mitt Romney Copy Share
I saw the young man over there with eggs Benedict, with hollandaise sauce. And I was going to suggest to you that you serve… — Mitt Romney Copy Share
I think Mitt Romney has demonstrated repeatedly he has a penchant for - for secrecy, doesn't seem to have any interest in actually showing… — Mitt Romney Copy Share
If I were to offer advice to any president of the United States, it would be this: do whatever you can do to keep… — Mitt Romney Copy Share
America has not dictated to other nations. We have freed other nations from dictators. — Mitt Romney Copy Share
The right course is for the Palestinians and the Israelis to sit down at the table together. The Palestinians need to recognize that the… — Mitt Romney Copy Share
If I'm President of the United States, when I'm President of the United States, we will stand with Israel. — Mitt Romney Copy Share
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… — Mitt Romney Copy Share
