Mitt Romney

I have more delegates than anybody else right now, more votes for president than any other Republican.

I will finally fight for every job that we have in this country. It is not acceptable to me to simply write off an industry.

Romney is a former business executive, something of an expert in turnarounds and voters there hope that he can turn around their economy if he were to become president.

And tonight is a victory of optimism over Washington-style pessimism.

American voters said that knowing how America works is more important than knowing how Washington works. And what we're going to see in the next few days is a Democrat saying that they're the party of change. You're going to hear Hillary…

Tonight proves that you can't tell an American that there's something they just can't do, because Americans can do whatever they set their hearts on.

But guess what they're doing in Washington? They're worrying, because they realize, the lobbyists and the politicians realize, that America now understands that Washington is broken.

Is Washington, D.C., broken? Can it be fixed? Are we the team that's going to get the job done?

I will not rest until Michigan has come back.

if -- even if he comes in second in -- in -- in Michigan, if he wins among Republican voters, that -- he is going to take that as a victory.

I have got Michigan in my DNA. I have got it in my heart and I have got cars in my bloodstream.

Let's get the record straight: could we be headed for a recession? Absolutely. Do we have to be headed for a recession? Absolutely not.

Let's get the record straight -- could we be headed for a recession? Absolutely. Do we have to be headed for a recession? Absolutely not.

I know that there's some people who think as Senator McCain did. He said, you know, some jobs that left Michigan that are never coming back. I disagree. I'm going to fight for every single job. Michigan, South Carolina, every state in this…

That we secure the border, we have the fence and we have enough border patrol agents to secure the border. And that we have an employment verification system of some kind. But the place of difference between us is what we do with the 12…

I think you have to have somebody from outside Washington who has proven that he can get the job done.

It's do or die for him.

And I'm going to use all those years of experience and my love for this state to go to work for Michigan to end the one-state recession and make sure that Michigan has a bright and promising future.

I just don't think there's any way Washington is going to be changed if we just send back the same people, just give them different chairs.

My ads had been focused on issue differences between myself and the other candidates.

Having Barack Obama as the leader of the Democratic Party means that we're going to have to have somebody who goes up against him, who is not a long-term senator.

It's going to take a person who is himself an innovator, like myself, who has the experience to bring change to Washington.

My campaign has been about change from the very beginning.

People across the country are saying that Washington is fundamentally broken and has to be changed.

There's no way that our party would be successful in the fall if we put forward a long-serving senator to stand up against Barack Obama's message of change.