John McCain has said the economy is "not his strong suit."
Mitt Romney on Friday, February 1st, 2008 in Denver >>Details
"Two-thirds of our economy is a consumer economy."
Mitt Romney on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in Boca Raton, Fla. >>Details
"Gasoline would rise in price by approximately 50 cents a gallon" if the McCain-Lieberman bill became law.
Mitt Romney on Monday, January 28th, 2008 in West Palm Beach, Fla. >>Details
"Now, I also support the Bush tax cuts. Sen. McCain voted against them originally. He now believes they should be made permanent. I'm glad he agrees they should be made permanent."
Mitt Romney on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in Boca Raton. >>Details
"I was pretty proud of being the only guy on the stage that ever had a job in the private sector."
Mitt Romney on Friday, January 25th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Pensacola. >>Details
"I don't have lobbyists running my campaign."
Mitt Romney on Thursday, January 17th, 2008 in a news conference in a Staples store in Columbia, S.C. >>Details
"(My dad) used to campaign against the gas-guzzling dinosaurs."
Mitt Romney on Monday, January 14th, 2008 in a TV interview on CBS. >>Details
Barack Obama "wants the government to take over health care, spend hundreds of billions of dollars of new money for health insurance for everyone."
Mitt Romney on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"I don't describe your plan as amnesty in my ad. I don't call it amnesty."
Mitt Romney on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"Sen. McCain says it was not a mistake to vote against the Bush tax cuts ... but now says the tax cuts need to be made permanent."
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 in a press release >>Details
"McCain opposes repeal of the death tax."
Mitt Romney on Friday, December 28th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details
"I just talked about guns. I told you what my position was, and what I did as governor, the fact that I received the endorsement of the NRA."
Mitt Romney on Sunday, December 16th, 2007 in "Meet the Press" interview >>Details
"I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."
Mitt Romney on Thursday, December 6th, 2007 in College Station, Texas >>Details
Former business partner Robert Gay says: “The man who helped save my daughter was Mitt Romney.”
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 in >>Details
Huckabee "granted 1,033 pardons and commutations . . . more clemencies than the previous three governors combined."
Mitt Romney on Monday, December 17th, 2007 in a TV ad airing in Iowa. >>Details
"I'm prolife. I'm not going to apologize for becoming prolife. Ronald Reagan followed that same course, as did Henry Hyde and George Herbert Walker Bush. And I'm proud to be prolife."
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 in debate in Johnston, Iowa >>Details
Mike Huckabee "supported taxpayer-funded scholarships for illegal aliens."
Mitt Romney on Monday, December 10th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details
Romney said "'No' to in-state tuition" for illegal immigrants.
Mitt Romney on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details
Huckabee supported "a tuition break to the children of illegals that are here illegally when citizens are having to pay a higher rate."
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 in an interview >>Details
The Red Sox waited "87 long years" to win the World Series.
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 in a debate in St. Petersburg >>Details
"In the African-American community today, 68 percent of kids born are born out of wedlock."
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Fla. >>Details
"The mayor said … 'if you happen to be in this country in an undocumented status . . . then we welcome you here. We want you here. We'll protect you here.' "
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 in a debate in St. Petersburg, Fla. >>Details
"No, I did not (have illegal immigrants working at his mansion)."
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Fla. >>Details
"The truth of the matter is that during my administration, the FBI’s crime statistics show that violent crime was reduced in Massachusetts by 7 percent."
Mitt Romney on Sunday, November 25th, 2007 in an interview >>Details
“Mayor Giuliani’s lawsuit killed the line-item veto.”
Mitt Romney on Saturday, October 6th, 2007 in >>Details
"John McCain is right on that one. The line-item veto is the best tool the president has to rein in excessive spending."
Mitt Romney on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in an interview on CNBC. >>Details
"She hasn't run a corner store. She hasn't run a state. She hasn't run a city. She has never run anything."
Mitt Romney on Friday, November 2nd, 2007 in a TV ad airing in New Hampshire. >>Details
“We had a No Child Left Behind — a similar piece of legislation in our state a number of years ago, well before the federal law. And it’s had a big impact here. It’s improved schools.”
Mitt Romney on Friday, September 14th, 2007 in an interview >>Details
President Clinton "reduced the scale of our military dramatically."
Mitt Romney on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla. >>Details
Mitt Romney boasts that he is "proud to be the only major candidate for president to sign the tax pledge. The others have not."
Mitt Romney on Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 in a radio ad. >>Details
“I have not changed my position on the (gay) marriage amendment or anything else related to marriage."
Mitt Romney on Friday, September 14th, 2007 in an interview on MSNBC >>Details
"I don't think that Rudy or Fred or John McCain support the marriage amendment."
Mitt Romney on Friday, September 14th, 2007 in an interview on MSNBC >>Details
"It doesn't make sense to me to send $1-billion a day out of our country. We can be energy independent and should be."
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 in Florida. >>Details
"Mayor Giuliani made New York City what's known as a 'sanctuary city,' where illegal aliens were allowed to come. And he instructed the leaders of the city not to enforce the law, not to enforce immigration law."
Mitt Romney on Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 in a campaign event carried on CNN. >>Details
"The Republican governor who stood up and cut spending instead of raising taxes."
Mitt Romney on Friday, September 21st, 2007 in a television ad. >>Details
Mitt Romney: the innovator who created and revolutionized American businesses, turned around major companies.
Mitt Romney on Friday, September 21st, 2007 in a television ad. >>Details
"Took on the Olympics and turned them around"
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 in a television ad. >>Details
"Senator McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts. Now he's for them."
Mitt Romney on Thursday, April 26th, 2007 in Stratham, N.H. >>Details
"(McCain) was opposed to ethanol. Now he's for it."
Mitt Romney on Thursday, April 26th, 2007 in Stratham, N.H. >>Details
"(McCain) said he was opposed to overturning Roe v. Wade. Now he's for overturning Roe v. Wade."
Mitt Romney on Thursday, April 26th, 2007 in Stratham, N.H. >>Details
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