Mitt Romney

Government doesn't create jobs, the private sector does.

He's a wealthy man. A very wealthy man. If you have a half a million dollar purchase from Tiffany's, you are not a middle class American.

I think people recognize that I'm not a partisan Republican, that I'm someone who is moderate and that my views are progressive.

Newt Gingrich has been an unreliable leader in the conservative movement. This is a person who has a very questionable record when it comes to leading conservative principles.

If he was working as a spokesman for Fannie Mae -- excuse me for Freddie Mac, if he was there because of his political connections, and then if Freddie Mac fails, I think a fair question is asked, why did he profit as Freddie Mac failed?

Let's not forget, only one president has ever cut Medicare for seniors in this country and it's Barack Obama. We're going to remind him of that time and time again.

To help make America the most attractive place in the world for investment, for new enterprise, for entrepreneurs and for job growth, there's seven things you have to do.

I believe that the principle of being a merit society, where education, hard work, risk taking, have lifted certain individual, is what's going on today.

I've been married to the same woman for 25 -- excuse me, I get in trouble. For 42 years. I've been in the same church my entire life. I worked at one company, Bain, for 25 years and I left that to go off and help save the Olympic Games.

I have been in the same church my entire life. I worked at one company, Bain, for 25 years, and I left that to go off and help save the Olympic Games.

I have been married to the same woman for 25 -- excuse me -- I will get in trouble -- for 42 years.

The principle is that we are not going to have an amnesty system that says that people who come here illegally get to stay for the rest of their life in this country legally.

The ad, before it went out, was sent out with press releases describing that what the president had said about John McCain was now going to be used to be said about him.

Certainly we have to secure the border. And we talk about people who have been here 25 years, that is the extreme exception... I'm not going to start drawing lines here about who gets to stay and who get to go.

The principle is, we're not going to have an amnesty system that says that people who come here illegally get to stay for the rest of their life in this country legally.

I care about this state and about auto industry like -- I guess like no one else on this stage having been born and raised here and watched my parents make their life here.

I -- look. Look. Herman Cain is the person to respond to these questions. He just did. The people in this room and across the country can make their own assessment, I haven't.

The report and recommendations taken as a whole clearly map out a new strategy for Federal, regional, and State ocean resource management that I strongly support.

I think there are a number of features in the Massachusetts plan that could inform Washington on ways to improve health care for all Americans.

You talked about magnets. You put in place a magnet to draw illegals into the state, which was giving $100,000 of tuition credit to illegals that come into this country, and then you have states -- the big states of illegal immigrants are…

You talk about magnets. You put in place some magnet that draw illegals to this state which was giving $100,000 of tuition credit to illegals that come to this country, and then you have states -- you have states -- the big states of…

astonishing failure to secure an orderly transition in Iraq.

If we're looking at the past, I think we know where you were.

You just had a couple of bad debates.

The analysis I did, person by person, return by return, is that middle income people see higher taxes under your plan.