Mitt Romney

“Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.”

“Pre-existing conditions for those previously insured must not lead to someone being unable to get insurance.”

“I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected.”

“I think we should have the majority of the party's voters decide who they want as their nominee.”

“And that's how it is in America. We look to our communities, our faiths, our families for our joy, our support, in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives.”

“I'm not running again. I will say this: It was a great experience. I loved it.”

“The right course is for the Palestinians and the Israelis to sit down at the table together. The Palestinians need to recognize that the course to the two-state solution is not through the United Nations or through the United States or through anyone else, but through a face to face series of negotiations with the Israelis.”

“Trickle-down racism, trickle-down bigotry, trickle-down misogyny, all these things are extraordinarily dangerous to the heart and character of America.”

“My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.”

“When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'”

“I don't want to see a president of the United States saying things which change the character of the generations of Americans that are following.”

“It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.”

“The weakness that our campaign and that I had is we weren't effective in taking my message primarily to minority voters.”

“Look, rich people and business people do well whether Republicans or Democrats are in charge.”

“I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.”

“I support the work of the NRA. I'm a member of the NRA.”

“The voters of the country decide who they want to support, and the delegates are elected to also make a determination of who would be in the best interest of the party and the country to be our nominee.”

“There's no question in my mind that I think I would have been a better president than Barack Obama has been.”

“A president must serve only the common cause of the people of the United States.”

“Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.”