Mitt Romney Quotes

The people who vote in the primaries are at the ideological edge of their party.

The good thing about having a Republican primary is that the voters will decide our nominee - unlike the Democrats.

I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.

The political parties have no role except to stage the conventions, where you celebrate a decision that's already been made elsewhere.

In the Democratic party they call the people who lost the last election losers. In the Republican party, we call them the next nominee.

In our system today, many people don’t have to win general elections; they just have to win primaries.

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

Nobody who ever runs for President should be the leader of a party.

It is true that in some states the only important vote is the primary, when you choose between different members of the same party. In these states, where our two-party system usually does not function, it is important that everyone vote in the primaries. Elsewhere throughout the country, citizens should vote both in the primaries and in the final election, for where the two-party system works they will always have a choice between party candidates.

Republicans have the habit of giving their possible presidential candidates a saliva test for purity, and then bitching for 4 years because they lost the last election..

I think the trend to move towards caucuses and conventions, whether to nominate senators, governors or presidential nominees, I think the move towards caucuses and conventions is a very bad one, and that our party should reward those states that spend the time and money to have primaries.

You have to listen to people that have chosen the nominee of our Republican Party. I think it would be foolish to ignore them.

I'm a Republican. I'm running in a Republican primary.

My problem anywhere is the damn Republicans closed out the independents from being able to vote in the primary.

The RNC, per our bylaws, cannot engage in primaries. That is not our role. We actually have a rule that prohibits us from picking a candidate in the primaries.

The main reason we've been the party out of power so long is we haven't had a good nominating process.

I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.

So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.

What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race.

I think it would be an extreme poverty indeed if there weren't more than one person willing to compete for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

I belong to the Democratic Party.

Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.

I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.