If you want to get wages up in America for middle income Americans, there’s only one way I know how to do that in real terms… by having more businesses want to hire more people. – Mitt Romney
Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker. – Mitt Romney
I’ve always been a rodent and rabbit hunter – small varmints, if you will. I began when I was 15 or so, and I have hunted those kinds of varmints since then. – Mitt Romney
The weakness that our campaign and that I had is we weren’t effective in taking my message primarily to minority voters. – Mitt Romney
Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America’s role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must – and will – lead the future. – Mitt Romney
First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables. – Mitt Romney
During the Reagan years, government shut down eight different times under a Democrat Congress. The president and Congress worked together and got things straightened out. Under the Carter years, again a Democrat Congress, the government shut down five times. – Mitt Romney
The president is the leader of the nation. The president brings people together, does the deals, does the trades, knocks the heads together. The president leads. – Mitt Romney
Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences. – Mitt Romney
Donald Trump just happens to be one of those who endorsed me I do not want to see as president of the United States. – Mitt Romney
Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples – where I’m pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised. – Mitt Romney
Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us. – Mitt Romney
Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ. – Mitt Romney
I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon. – Mitt Romney
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. – Mitt Romney
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. – Mitt Romney
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. – Mitt Romney
You can’t continue to have higher education tuition grow at a multiple of the rate of inflation. – Mitt Romney
President Obama’s astonishing failure to secure an orderly transition in Iraq has unnecessarily put at risk the victories that were won through the blood and sacrifice of thousands of American men and women. – Mitt Romney
I went and campaigned for Ken Cuccinelli and did a fund-raiser for Ken Cuccinelli. He’s not from my faction of the Republican Party, but you know what? When the nominee is chosen, we have got to come together, or we will never lead. – Mitt Romney
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
If I have a bad hair day, I just think, ‘Well, it will be an OK hair day tomorrow. Just put your head down and go.’ – Mitt Romney