The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government. — 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
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
The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy. — 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
When government is... bailing out banks... we have every good reason to be alarmed. — 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
Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
We have a long-standing tradition in this country to follow the advice of Senator Vandenberg, which is that politics ends at the… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
For me, politics is not a career. For me, my career was being in business and starting a business and making it… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans. — 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
That the policies - from energy to labor policies, trade policies, government policies relating to debt and deficits are all aligning in… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to… — 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
Mr. President, all of the increase in natural gas and oil has happened on private land, not on government land. On government… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus, even as he has relaxed sanctions on Castro's Cuba. He abandoned our… — 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
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
Rick, I'll tell you what. Ten thousand bucks? Ten thousand dollar bet? — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government. — 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
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
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
Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again.… — 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 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
People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
America has not dictated to other nations. We have freed other nations from dictators. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
