Mitt Romney Quotes

I like to think of myself as my own guy. I don't want to be labeled as a Tea Party guy, but I'm not necessarily against their agenda.

What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.

As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.

You talk about leading Republicans. That's no easy task on just like you were trying to lead Democrats on the other side. We all have independent thoughts and independent ideas.

If you thought Donald Trump was going to be swallowed up by the conventional Republican Party or by Washington, you were wrong.

While Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population.

I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. I'm Methodist. I have grievances with both parties.

How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would break lose?

Texas is a big state. It's a major force in the Republican Party.

I invigorated the grassroots in the Republican Party as well as the Democratic Party.

I cannot overemphasize this, the attitude, the defeatist attitude that everybody on the Republican side had.

The problem with Republicans and Conservatives is we attack each other.

The republican party is my vehicle, not my master.

If there were two candidates, a Democrat and a Republican, who each committed to the same kind of fundamental reform, then the election would be an election between the vice presidential candidates. It'd be just like the regular election, except it would be one step down.

Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm.

Republican attacks are without basis, but when the Democrats attack me they're usually right.

The Republicans can't go after Donald Trump where I think he needs to be criticized.

There's a big difference in Trump and previous Republicans. They have a strategy known as surrender. When the media starts coming after 'em and the Democrats come after 'em, the Republicans, "Okay, okay, okay." Trump says, "What? What?" And just keeping plowing they had and then impugning 'em, laughing at 'em, making fun of 'em with his tweets and so forth.

I'll tell you something else, and certainly you're not gonna remember this because the media landscape wasn't the same. But the Republican establishment hated Ronald Reagan too, just like the Democrat establishment did.

In fact, you see Hillary [Clinton] moving very far to the left. You see all the Republicans moving very far to the right.

The Democrats are incapable of even being accused of violating political correctness, so they don't even worry about it. The Democrats have really grown accustomed, however, to Republicans not attacking, not criticizing them.

The Democratic Party has succeeded so well that many of its members are now Republicans.

If we have to have a real movement on this issue if you support gun control, it has to come from the Republican side.

[The Republicans] have come up with nothing. They say repeal and replace. That has alliteration.

Now the Republicans have a very low-scale, by economic standards, base. Donald Trump has.