Mitt Romney Quotes

Candidates run for election on campaign promises, but once they're elected they renege on those promises, which happened with President [Barack] Obama on Guantánamo, the surveillance programs and investigating the crimes of the Bush administration. These were very serious campaign promises that were not fulfilled.

There's always a risk when the candidate becomes president: Will he deliver what is expected of him?

Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.

I think you gotta go forward with the things you campaigned on.

Bringing accountability to Washington has been an important part of my time in office and an important part of my campaign.

I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .

When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.

I have a question for Republicans running for the House and the Senate. I'm asking this question with genuine sincerity: Why should people vote for you? It's clear that you don't want to stop Hillary Clinton.

When people tell me that I became President on January 20th, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don't become President of the United States. You are given temporary custody of an institution called the Presidency, which belongs to our people.

If you go back and you look at the presidency over the course of history, presidents tend to do what they campaigned on. In the 20th century, presidents between Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter accomplished 73 percent of the things that they said they would do as candidates. Part of that is because once they get into office, their credibility, their ability to do anything depends on doing the things that they said they would.

I'm not running for president to be somebody, I'm running for president to do something!

My major focus is national security because that's really what the president runs.

We should never forget the government should be held accountable for providing services.

Hillary Clinton is running for president. This time around, she promises to be warm and approachable. Like me.

The first job of the president of the United States is to protect your safety and your security and the security and safety of your family.

It's no coincidence that trust in government is at an all-time low now that the size of government is at an all-time high.

Republicans are now saying that Dan Rather should lose his job because he misled the country with bogus information. Which is odd because the Democrats are saying the exact same thing about President Bush.

No foreign policy can be sustained in the United States of America without the informed consent of the American people. And informed means just that, successes and failure, a realistic assessment of where we are and what the president plans to do about it.

Being a politician means never having to say you're sorry. You don't have to say, 'I never should have voted to subsidize that ridiculous Enron project in India.' ... After all, they're greedy businessmen and you're a selfless public servant.

What I'm encouraging President Trump and the Cabinet and congressional leaders to do, is let's keep our promises. Let's do what we said we would do, and that's what each and every one of you can hold all of us accountable for.

Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.

Elect us, hold us accountable, and make a judgment and then go from there. But I do tell you that if the Democrats win, and have substantial majorities, the Congress of the United States will be more bipartisan.

Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking

I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.

We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.