Mitt Romney Quotes

I have a lot of sympathy for every ailing economy …. The question is not whether you have sympathy. The question is what would be the right measure to help alleviate the situation.

And taking more money out of the private economy and having the government perform as it has poorly done with the stimulus I don't think is the right way to go.

No, I’m not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money.

We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.

We've gotten tremendous support. Everybody now understands how critical it is to help small businesses get out of this recession and into recovery.

It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the government's overreach. In reality, the FHA shows how government action during the Great Recession forestalled a much worse economic fate.

Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them.

No complicated scheme of relief, no plan for government fixing of prices, no resort to the Public Treasury will be of any value …

Let’s have a moratorium on press conferences …. Get off your asses and let’s do something and fix the biggest doggone crisis in the history of this country.

I supported some very, very objectionable things in terms of bailouts or rescues, but I did it not for Wall Street, but for the American people.

You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.

I think the biggest thing we need is to unclog the credit markets, and we may need another stimulus - if we do, it's - it should go to the lower and middle-income people.

We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC and I think there could well be a proper role for government in that.

Yes. We do think that the stimulus package is raising GDP and raising employment relative to what would have happened otherwise.

Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is the federal government.

The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.

Every proposal I'm making, every idea I'm advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need.

Finally, let's keep well in mind the most important lesson of the auto rescue: While government should stay away from the private sector as much as possible, markets do occasionally fail, and when they do government can play a constructive role, as it did in the case of the auto rescue.

And people talk about the stimulus package and the jobs that it was supposed to create, it certainly didn't have the intended effects that everybody was hoping for or that the president and administration certainly was hoping for. So I think it's time to lay some new solutions on the table, some new ideas.

The government has got to do something to help independent businesses.

The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.

The 2009 stimulus law got the ball rolling, allowing the agency to reduce and eliminate fees and raise loan guarantees to 90 percent of the total. I knew that we had the opportunity to use S.B.A. products to fill that gap in a rapid manner, as we ended up doing in the Recovery Act.

I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.