Mitt Romney actually said...

"It's beneath his dignity."

"But there's a difference between being a shareholder, an owner, if you will, and being a person who's running an entity. And I had no role whatsoever in managing Bain Capital after February 1999."

"And by the way, this is all an effort on the part of the president's campaign to divert attention from the fact that the president has been a failure when it comes to reigniting America's economy."

"I think what the president is doing is terribly destructive to the political process and be -- beneath what the people of America expected from someone who said he was going to rise above partisan pol..."