Mitt Romney

I spent 25 years in business. if I had a business executive come to me and say they want to spend a few hundred billion dollars to put a colony on the moon, I'd say, 'You're fired.'

The devil's in the details. The angel is in the policy, which is creating more jobs.

Well, we'll go through that process with Congress.

The devil's in the details, though. What are we talking about? The mortgage deduction? The charitable deduction?

Well, we will go through that process with Congress.

The president encourages government dependency, that he would rather see people who are dependent on government than go back into the work force.

Taking work requirements out of government assistance is, in my opinion, a very bad course to take and creates a culture of dependency.

I think the president is also -- I disagree with the direction on the work requirement as it related to food stamps.

The president's effort to take work requirement out of welfare is a calculated move, the same thing he did with regards to food stamps.

We've been absolutely spot on. And any time there's anything that's been amiss, we correct it or remove it.

47 percent of Americans are dependent on government, see themselves as victims and will vote for President Obama no matter what.

It's the one at which he has been the most consistent, because he has always said that he is opposed to gay marriage.

Oh, sure. Look, it doesn't make a lot of sense for us to have millions and millions of people who have no health insurance and yet who can go to the emergency room and get entirely free care for which they have no responsibility…

Well, we do provide care for people who don't have insurance. People -- if someone has a heart attack, they don't sit in their apartment and die. We pick them up in an ambulance and take them to the hospital and give them care, and…

President Obama has changed his position on gay marriage.

Actually, what we have right now is the road to socialism. What we have right now in health care is creeping socialism with more and more people going on Medicaid and Medicare, and those who don't have insurance, when they show up at the…

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.

This is a campaign about the 100 percent and over the last several years, you have seen greater and greater divisiveness in this country.

We're not going to round up people around the country and deport them. That's not -- I said during my primary campaign, time and again, we're not going to round up 12 million people, that includes the kids and the parents, and have…

It's a campaign about the 100 percent and over the last several years, you've seen greater and greater divisiveness in this country. We had hoped to come back together but instead, you've seen us pull apart and politics has driven us apart…

I look at the Palestinians not wanting to see peace in any way for political purposes, committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel, and these thorny issues, and I say there's just no way.

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has the…

Well, there are 47 percent of the people who will vote for President Obama no matter what. All right. There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government…

I have demonstrated my capacity to help the 100 percent.

My job is not to worry about those people. I will never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.