Famous quotes by Politicians

"I stand ready to lead us down a different path, where we are lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"Education is the investment our generation makes in the future"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"Conservatism has had, from its inception, vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job!"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion dollars ago"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"In the middle of a recession, no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"Imagine a judicial nominee said 'My experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high, I'm going to be the nominee"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols, just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic Buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"I discourage a cult of personality"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"I believe we will elect a new President in 2012"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

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