43 Most Famous Mitt Romney Quotes

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Willard Mitt Romney is an American businessman and politician. 

Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has served as the junior US. Senator from Utah since 2019. He was born in Michigan on March 12th, 1947. He went to public elementary schools till seventh grade. Then he went to Cranbrook School,  a private school in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Romney Participated in four Presidential debates.

Romney participated in his father’s campaign in 1962 and later worked as an intern in the governor’s office. He took up residence in Cranbrook when his father spent most of his time at the state capitol. He helped manage the ice hockey team there and joined a prep squad. 

He went to Stanford University in 1965. 

Romney started his career at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) after getting his Harvard MBA degree. He also passed the Michigan bar exam but decided to pursue a career in business. He later joined Bain & Company in 1977 and was promoted to vice president in 1978 

Mitt Romney criticized during the second presidential debate that the Government does not create jobs. The government does not create jobs.

Romney considered entering politics in 1983 and challenged the incumbent Ted Kennedy. Romney won the 1994 Republican party convention with 68% of the vote. Romney and Kennedy had a great fight in the general elections. Romney lost to Kennedy in 1994. 

You can find out more about the senator here.

Here’s our collection of the best Mitt Romney Quotes:

Mitt Romney Quotes on Americans/Politics/Trump/Nation/Law

I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.

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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.

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America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.

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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.

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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.

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American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

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I’d like Americans to save their money, and not get taxed on their savings.

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I don’t see how a young American can vote for, well, can vote for a Democrat.

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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.

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Donald Trump tells us that he is very, very smart. I’m afraid that when it comes to foreign policy he is very, very not smart.

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Mitt Romney Quotes on America/Trump/President/Obama

The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.

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Dishonesty is Trump’s hallmark: He claimed that he had spoken clearly and boldly against going into Iraq. Wrong. He spoke in favor of invading Iraq. He said he saw thousands of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating 9/11. Wrong. He saw no such thing. He imagined it.

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Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.

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I want America to be more like America, if you will. I want songs that show the patriotism we have.

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The president may be a nice guy, but he’s just over his head.

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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.

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A person like Donald Trump, who has said what he’s said about Muslims, Mexicans, women, George Bush, John McCain – a person like that should not be the nominee of our party or be the president, and I will campaign for an alternative to Donald Trump until that avenue is no longer open.

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President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise… is to help you and your family.

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I’ve been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama – then candidate Obama – going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I’ve seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of ’til death do we part.

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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 it reckless.

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President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their team have failed the American people, and that is why their majority will soon be out the door.

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

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We still believe in America that it is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.

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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.

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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.

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This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in the government. We put our faith in the American people.

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Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can’t turn this economy around in three years, I’ll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we’re here to collect! You know the results. It’s been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.

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President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

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Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it’s time for you to get out of the way.

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I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn’t something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. With your help we will do something.

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Mitt Romney Quotes on Economy/Leadership/Tax/Health

When it comes to the economy, my highest priority as President will be worrying about your job, not saving my own.

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My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.

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President Obama’s view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!

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Let me tell you, the heart of my tax proposal: I will not raise taxes on the American people. I will not raise taxes on middle-income Americans.

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So, for instance, let me make this clear: You know I signed a statement. I will not raise taxes on anybody. I don’t want to raise taxes on the American people.

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On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.

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Mitt Romney Other Quotes

Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income taxes. “So our message of tax cuts doesn’t connect.

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I’ve met graduating college kids facing loan payments and a bad economy, and they are worried that they won’t be able to get a job. This is not the way America needs to be.

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What we have, what we wish we had – ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost – these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.

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Think about that: Let the most dangerous terror organization the world has ever known take over a country? This is recklessness in the extreme.”

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If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that’s not who we are.

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I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.

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“I went to a number of women’s groups and said ‘Can you help us find folks?’ and they brought us whole binders full of women.” Mitt Romney, on staffing his cabinet while he was governor of Massachusetts, presidential debate, Oct. 16, 2012.

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Summary

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