I can't tell you what will happen over the next four years. But I can only stand here tonight, as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, an American, and make you this solemn commitment: This man will not fail. This man will not let us down. This man will lift up America!
How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people I care about in my life and that is where my values are and those are my riches.Collection: People
If you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.Collection: Looks
We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.Collection: Smart
You can never predict what kind of tough decisions are going to come in front of a President's desk. But if you can trust they will do the right thing, and maybe the hard thing, and maybe not the popular thing, and if you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.Collection: Decision
I think we identify ourselves by labels or things that we are able to do: I am this. I am a good cook. I am a good mother. I am a good this. I am a good doctor. I am a good lawyer. When you can’t do those things anymore, you wonder where your identity is.Collection: Mother
We can be poor in spirit, and I don’t even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing. It can be here today and gone tomorrow.Collection: Interesting
Another son came along 18 months later, although we waited four years to have the third, because Mitt was still in school and we had no income except the stock we were chipping away at. We were living on the edge, not entertaining. No, I did not work. Mitt thought it was important for me to stay home with the children, and I was delighted.Collection: Children
You can never ask God to tell you what the end is. You can ask, "Is this a good thing to do?" But not, "How is this going to turn out?" That answer you will never get.Collection: Answers
This is the genius of America: dreams fulfilled help others launch new dreams.Collection: Dream
The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.Collection: Secret
I am so mad at the press I could just strangle them!Collection: Mad
They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income... Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.Collection: Jobs
You know, I think my biggest concern [if Mitt is elected], obviously, would just be for his mental well-being. I have all the confidence in the world in his ability, in his decisiveness and his leadership skills, in his understanding of the economy, in his understanding of what's missing right now in the economy - you know, pieces that are missing to get this jump-started. So for me I think it would just be the emotional part of it.Collection: Emotional
A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage.Collection: Real
Mitt doesn't like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point.Collection: Talking
Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.Collection: Jobs
We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person who is trying to hide things, or do things?Collection: Thinking
We've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and how we live our life.Collection: People
It can be here today and gone tomorrow.Collection: Gone
Women wear many hats in their lives. Daughter, sister, student, breadwinner. But no matter where we are or what we’re doing, one hat that moms never take off is the crown of motherhood. There is no crown more glorious.Collection: Mom
Raising children is the hardest job that there is on the face of the Earth.Collection: Jobs
You have to recognize that deep within your soul, you know who you are - and let [the criticism] go right by you. If you're reacting to it, you're letting it get to you.Collection: Soul
Once your health is taken away, you have nothing.Collection: Taken