Mitt Romney Quotes

We are going to be thriving again. We have no growth in America.

You can see signs of a roaring economy. You can sense economic growth. You know it's happening. You're part of it. It is affecting you. Seventy-five percent of Americans think the government is corrupt.

We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000.

We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth we've already been seeing in Colorado continue.

To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries.

Well, as you've said, we cannot expect the people of China not to want to progress, so if you have an opportunity to progress, to develop your economy to a world class economy, it's an aspiration that is natural and that, I welcome.

We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that's what I call progress.

The War of 1812 has given new direction to wealth and industry in the United States, and manufacturers grew up as if by magic.

Washington is not the engine of the economy.

I think we did a really good job in saving this economy and putting us back on the track of growth.

The recession is over." This phrase has been used twice a year since 1973 by government leaders throughout the West. Its meaning is unclear. See: Depression.

I think that in the last eight years, we were averaging economic growth of about 2 percent. It's not good. It's very slow. It's a slow pace. People are expecting that pace to continue if Hillary Clinton becomes president.

We've seen tremendous progress in many ways under President [Barack] Obama. I mean, if we think about where the economy was when he got in - you know, we were losing more than 700,000 jobs a month. The unemployment rate was skyrocketing. And now it's at under 5 percent, so there is a lot of progress that has happened.

Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.

I believe that our economy is not a one- or two-percent growth economy; I believe it can grow at four percent, and we can revitalize our economy if we do the right things.

The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.

California's economy is declining so rapidly that candidates are asking 'Are you better off now then you were four minutes ago?'

My definition of economic development is economic growth.

Economics is on the side of humanity now.

Rwanda is rebuilding itself once again as one nation and that is the reason why we are making progress. Now many Rwandans are making their ends meet and others are able to do better than they have before.

Every step toward the elimination of profit is progress on the way toward social disintegration.

I am determined that we're going to get the economy really moving again, building on the progress, but never going back to what got us in trouble in the first place.

I admire President Obama. He inherited the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. That was a terrible time for America.

THERE is scarcely any inquiry more curious, or, from its importance, more worthy of attention, than that which traces the causes which practically check the progress of wealth in different countries, and stop it, or make it proceed very slowly, while the power of production remains comparatively undiminished, or at least would furnish the means of a great and abundant increase of produce and population.

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.