Quotes from Mitt Romney

We must persuade Iran not t have nuclear weapons through peaceful and diplomatic means. We want a peaceful planet.

I think people want to see change, want to see something new and Hillary Clinton is just not that person.

I care about a hundred percent of the American people. I want a hundred percent of the American people to have a bright and prosperous future.

Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country.

President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial.

I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.

I'm optimistic about the future. I'm excited about our prospects as a nation. I want to see peace. I want to see growing peace in America. It's our objective.

When it comes to our foreign policy, Mitt Romney seems to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.

I think that the effort to continue to look for some law to somehow make violence go away is missing the point.

I like the 'Twilight' series. That was fun.

Pre-existing conditions for those previously insured must not lead to someone being unable to get insurance.

When there are elections, people tend to vote for peace. They don't vote for war. So Americans want to promote those principles around the world.

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.

People in politics always say they're spending time with their family, but in my case, it's a big family. We got 23 grandkids, so I get to spend a lotta time with them, and it's extraordinarily enjoyable.

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.

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.

The unemployment rate went down as I was governor of Massachusetts. We were losing jobs every month when I came into the state.

China can be our partner, but that doesn't mean that they can just roll all over us and steal our jobs on an unfair basis.

There's no question I'm going to do everything within the normal political bounds to make sure we don't nominate Donald Trump. I think he would be terribly unfit for office.

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.

Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.

What's at the heart of my faith is a belief that there's a creator. That we're all children of the same God. And that, fundamentally, the relationship you have with your spouse is important and eternal.