Mitt Romney Quotes

My decision to look seriously at elected office is grounded in a deep commitment to public service and my experience - both my own and that of my family - in finding just, practical, and bipartisan solutions to difficult challenges.

I really do believe that mayors have the political position to really change people's lives.

I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

Public service is a noble career. You can’t do it unless you get out there and run…. You can make a difference if you are elected.

I want to be known as the mayor who happens to be Latino who made a difference. I ran to make a difference.

Throughout my life, I've always believed that the sole purpose of public service is to improve the lives of the people around us. From the Freeport Town Council to serving as Speaker of the State House, I've kept that sense of purpose close to my heart - consistently and passionately asking myself how we make progress.

I came in to make a difference, to be a minister, to make policy.

I've also said you don't rule any options out, because if you are in public life because you want to make a difference... obviously, you have to be open to those kind of possibilities.

It's not really the job of a public servant to inspire, but to get the job that the people demand done. The Democrats think that if they have hope and are inspired, things will get better, but they actually won't.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.

I'm going to explore the possibility that my future work could be in public service rather than corporate work.

Every cook or every laborer cannot govern the state.

Administration is the essence of government, and its quality is a prime condition of civic comfort.

Be a President. Don't try to be a lawyer.

In short, that politicians do or don't have families should no longer have any bearing on their abilities to hold office or to care more or less about the future of the country.

I believe that young kids have agency and can make a difference in the world.

I ran for public office to do something good.

I think of being the mayor of a big city with so many incredible things happening - but also so many challenges and opportunities - as really being kind of the chief advocate for the people.

When we make these decisions that we're going to commit ourselves to making a difference in the life of one person every single day, what happens is we actually build a whole generation of citizen leaders.

Mayors are known to be problem-solvers.

You've got a bunch of kids out here that might not want to be athletes, but they want to learn how to make a difference in their community, and I'm trying to as best I can show an example of that.

Each year on Impact Day, I love seeing our people fill classrooms, parks, and training centers to make a difference in communities across the country.

Arianna Huffington is one of the greatest champions of this idea - that anyone can make a difference.

I didn't need to be speaker because I needed a fancy title or a big office. I wanted to be speaker so I could lead an effort to deal with the serious issues that are facing our country.