Mitt Romney Quotes

In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.

I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.

I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

Frankly, Donald Trump won the candidacy for the Republican Party. Let's get on board and help him win.

To defeat Donald Trump, the Democrats must run a stellar cast of all-stars in their primary.

As a Democrat following the 2012 presidential election closely, I was happy to see that South Carolina voted overwhelmingly for Newt Gingrich, a candidate almost too easy for President Barack Obama to beat in the fall. I was not, however, surprised at the state's gaffe.

The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.

In some future America, there could be a plausible Michael Bloomberg path to the Democratic nomination. I would love to read a column by a smart person actually attempting to persuade me of this, using evidence.

If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.

Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.

I could have beat Obama.

I represent the Democratic party... I've never been nor do I ever plan to be a John McCain supporter. I support Barack Obama.

I voted for McCain.

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

I don't think Obama will get re-elected.

President George W. Bush won reelection in 2004 largely because he was seen as comfortable in his own skin, while rival John Kerry was viewed as a flip-flopping opportunist.

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.

We had the election won. Debates couldn't help us and might hurt.

You can’t win a Presidential election in this country with just a base.

The tactics and strategy of every Presidential election campaign is most influenced by the previous Presidential election.

The outcome of an election depends on the candidate, not the people on the sidelines [advisors, handlers, etc.]

Donald Trump defeated not one but two political parties on his way to winning the Presidency.