Mitt Romney
There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it.Collection: Believe
The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.'Collection: Teacher
I think the great majority of Republicans, mainstream Republicans from across the country, don't want to see Donald Trump as president of the United States either. They're concerned they'd see a recession and I think they are also concerned we'd see a more dangerous world.Collection: Country
Actually, I didn't say that.Collection: Stupid
My dad, as you probably know, was the governor of Michigan and was the head of a car company. But he was born in Mexico... and had he been born of, uh, Mexican parents, I'd have a better shot at winning this. But he was unfortunately born to Americans living in Mexico. He lived there for a number of years. I mean, I say that jokingly, but it would be helpful to be Latino.Collection: Dad
This feels good being back in Michigan. You know, the trees are the right height.Collection: Feel Good
I met a guy yesterday, 7 feet tall. Yeah, handsome, great big guy, 7 feet tall! ... I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.Collection: Sports
If Israel is attacked, America has their back, not just diplomatically, not just culturally, but militarily.Collection: Israel
I'm not sure about these cookies ... They came from the local 7/11 bakery, or whatever.Collection: Cookies
I want to get America's private sector growing and I know how to do it.Collection: America
I'm Wolf Blitzer and yes, that's my real name.Collection: Real
Who let the dogs out? Who, who.Collection: Dog
When the president of Iran Ahmadinejad says that our debt makes America not a great country, that's a frightening thing.Collection: Country
I get speaker's fees from time to time, but not very much.Collection: Stupid
There are some who would have a presidential candidate describe and explain his church's distinctive doctrines. To do so would enable the very religious test the founders prohibited in the Constitution. No candidate should become the spokesman for his faith. For if he becomes President he will need the prayers of the people of all faiths.Collection: Religious
Our party [Republicans] has been focused on big business too long. I came through small business. I understand how hard it is to start a small business. That's why everything I'll do is designed to help small businesses grow and add jobs. I want to keep their taxes down on small business. I want regulators to see their job as encouraging small enterprise, not crushing it.Collection: Crush
I think the global warming debate is now pretty much over and people recognize the need associated with providing sources which do not generate the heat that is currently provided by fossil fuels. I concur that climate change is beginning to [have an] effect on our natural resources and that now is the time to take action.Collection: Thinking
The founders proscribed the establishment of a state religion, but they did not countenance the elimination of religion from the public square. We are a nation 'Under God' and in God, we do indeed trust.Collection: Squares
What I can tell you is I'm not running for president. I'm not going to run for president. I'm going to support one of these four people to be our nominee. I'm supporting three of them right now. And that means that we're going to get one of those people as our nominee.Collection: Running
Like other presidents before him, Barack Obama inherited a recession. But unlike them, he has made it worse, not better.Collection: President
Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history.Collection: Emergencies
America needs a president who can fix the economy because he understands the economy, and I do and I will.Collection: America
It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.Collection: Desire
As we watch the world today, sometimes it seems that we`re at the mercy of events instead of shaping events. And a strong America`s essential to shape events, and a strong America, by the way, depends on a strong military.Collection: Strong
President Obama trusts in the wisdom of government. I put my trust in the ingenuity and creativity and commitment to hard work of the American people.Collection: Hard Work
I support the work of the NRA, but disagree sometimes.Collection: Support
I believe the family is the foundation of America - and that we must fight to protect and strengthen it. I believe in the sanctity of human life. I believe that people and their elected representatives should make our laws, not unelected judges.Collection: Believe
Barack Obama has done something I find very hard to understand. Ever since FDR, we`ve had the capacity to be engaged in two conflicts at once, and he`s saying, No, we`re going to cut that back to only one conflict.Collection: Cutting
I frankly can't wait, because the idea of Bill Clinton back in the White House with nothing to do is something I just can't imagine, I can't imagine the American people can imagine.Collection: Ideas
Mr. President, you’re entitled as a president to your own airplane, and to your own house, but not to your own facts.Collection: Airplane
I absolutely believe that those who come here illegally should not be given favoritism or a special route to becoming permanent residents or citizens that's not given to those people who have stayed in line legally. I just think we have to follow the law, I think that's the right course.Collection: Believe
Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud.His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.Collection: Promise
I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin.Collection: Russia
In order to change the direction of this country, we need to change presidents. Americans need a conservative businessman to get this economy moving again, not career politicians. That is why I am running. Next week, I will lay out my specific plan to put America back to work.Collection: Running
I'm not going to just take office in January, I'm going to take responsibility.Collection: Responsibility
Neil Armstrong today takes his place in the hall of heroes. The moon will miss its first son of earth.Collection: Hero
Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace and that the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish.Collection: Pathways
I have paid taxes every year, a lot of taxes.Collection: Years
I'm not going to say to Putin that he'll get more flexibility after the election. After the election he'll get more backbone.Collection: Election
Ok to appoint atheists or agnostics-no litmus test of faith.Collection: Atheist
Freedom requires religion in society, not in individuals.Collection: Individual
Starving research and development is like eating the seed corn.Collection: Creativity
Let's take energy, for instance. I understand that in some industries, the input cost of energy is a major factor in whether an industry is going to locate in the United States or go elsewhere. So, when, at Bain Capital, we started a new steel company called Steel Dynamics in Indiana, the cost of energy was a very important factor to the success of that enterprise.Collection: Important
You can't have 23 million people struggling to get a job. You can't have an economy that over the last three years keeps slowing down its growth rate. You can't have kids coming out of college, half of them can't find a job today, or a job that's commensurate with their college degree. We have to get our economy going.Collection: Jobs
I've got a lot of good friends - the owner of the Miami Dolphins and the New York Jets - both owners are friends of mine.Collection: New York
I will not cut our military budget by a trillion dollars, which is a combination of the budget cuts Barack Obama has, as well as the sequestration cuts. That, in my view, is making our future less certain and less secure.Collection: Military
I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.Collection: Team
Frankly if I had paid more than are legally due I don't think I'd be qualified to become president.Collection: Thinking
I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed ... I'm networking. I have my sight on a particular job.Collection: Jobs