I'd think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The amount of debt we're adding, at a trillion a year, is simply not moral. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do. — 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
Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it? — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Through pro-growth policies, by abolishing Obamacare and eliminating other Obama-imposed impediments to economic growth, we will get our economy back on track. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, the heart of my tax proposal: I will not raise taxes on the American people. I will not… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
It was absolutely critical to renew the Bush tax cuts. Letting them expire would result in a massive tax increase that would… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
So, for instance, let me make this clear: You know I signed a statement. I will not raise taxes on anybody. I… — 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
And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The presidents would...president would prefer raising taxes. I understand. The problem with raising taxes is that it slows down the rate of… — 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
I think first of all, let me...let me repeat...let me repeat what I said. I'm not in favor of a $5 trillion… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance… — 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
I don't want to cost jobs. My priority is jobs. And so what I do is I bring down the tax rates,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I've talked to a guy who has a very small business. He's in the electronics business in...in St. Louis. He has four… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Well, President, you're...Mr. President, you're absolutely right, which is that, with regards to 97 percent of the businesses are not...not taxed at… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I'm pleased that I've balanced budgets. I was on the world of business for 25 years. If you didn't balance your budget,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Our party [Republicans] has been focused on big business too long. I came through small business. I understand how hard it is… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
So if the tax plan he described were a tax plan I was asked to support, I'd say absolutely not. I'm not… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Let me come back and say, why is it that I don't want to raise taxes? Why don't I want to raise… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
First of all, I don't have a $5 trillion tax cut. I don't have a tax cut of a scale that you're… — 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
Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I will promote savings and investment by maintaining the 15% rate on capital gains and dividends. I will eliminate the tax entirely… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The people who are having the hard time right now are middle-income Americans. Under the president's policies, middle-income Americans have been buried.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
You raise taxes and you kill jobs. That's why the National Federation of Independent Businesses said your plan will kill 700,000 jobs.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The second area, taxation, we agree, we ought to bring the tax rates down. And I do, both for corporations and for… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I mean, you have said before you'd cut the deficit in half. And this...I love this idea of $4 trillion in cuts.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
You've been president four years. You said you'd cut the deficit in half. It's now four years later. We still have trillion-dollar… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all… — 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