All statements by Mitt Romney
Romney
True
"Two-thirds of our economy is a consumer economy."

Mitt Romney on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in Boca Raton, Fla. >>Details


Romney
False
"I was pretty proud of being the only guy on the stage that ever had a job in the private sector."

Mitt Romney on Friday, January 25th, 2008 in a campaign rally in Pensacola. >>Details


Romney
False
"I don't have lobbyists running my campaign."

Mitt Romney on Thursday, January 17th, 2008 in a news conference in a Staples store in Columbia, S.C. >>Details


Romney
True
"(My dad) used to campaign against the gas-guzzling dinosaurs."

Mitt Romney on Monday, January 14th, 2008 in a TV interview on CBS. >>Details


Romney
Pants on fire!
"I don't describe your plan as amnesty in my ad. I don't call it amnesty."

Mitt Romney on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details


Romney
False
"I just talked about guns. I told you what my position was, and what I did as governor, the fact that I received the endorsement of the NRA."

Mitt Romney on Sunday, December 16th, 2007 in "Meet the Press" interview >>Details


Romney
Barely True
"I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."

Mitt Romney on Thursday, December 6th, 2007 in College Station, Texas >>Details


Romney
True
Former business partner Robert Gay says: “The man who helped save my daughter was Mitt Romney.”

Mitt Romney on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 in >>Details


Romney
Half-True
"I'm prolife. I'm not going to apologize for becoming prolife. Ronald Reagan followed that same course, as did Henry Hyde and George Herbert Walker Bush. And I'm proud to be prolife."

Mitt Romney on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 in debate in Johnston, Iowa >>Details


Romney
True
Romney said "'No' to in-state tuition" for illegal immigrants.

Mitt Romney on Monday, November 26th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details


Romney
False
The Red Sox waited "87 long years" to win the World Series.

Mitt Romney on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 in a debate in St. Petersburg >>Details


Romney
True
"In the African-American community today, 68 percent of kids born are born out of wedlock."

Mitt Romney on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Fla. >>Details


Romney
Barely True
"No, I did not (have illegal immigrants working at his mansion)."

Mitt Romney on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Fla. >>Details


Romney
True
"The truth of the matter is that during my administration, the FBI’s crime statistics show that violent crime was reduced in Massachusetts by 7 percent."

Mitt Romney on Sunday, November 25th, 2007 in an interview >>Details


Romney
Half-True
"John McCain is right on that one. The line-item veto is the best tool the president has to rein in excessive spending."

Mitt Romney on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in an interview on CNBC. >>Details


Romney
True
“We had a No Child Left Behind — a similar piece of legislation in our state a number of years ago, well before the federal law. And it’s had a big impact here. It’s improved schools.”

Mitt Romney on Friday, September 14th, 2007 in an interview >>Details


Romney
Half-True
President Clinton "reduced the scale of our military dramatically."

Mitt Romney on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 in a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla. >>Details


Romney
Mostly true
Mitt Romney boasts that he is "proud to be the only major candidate for president to sign the tax pledge. The others have not."

Mitt Romney on Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 in a radio ad. >>Details


Romney
Half-True
“I have not changed my position on the (gay) marriage amendment or anything else related to marriage."

Mitt Romney on Friday, September 14th, 2007 in an interview on MSNBC >>Details


Romney
True
"I don't think that Rudy or Fred or John McCain support the marriage amendment."

Mitt Romney on Friday, September 14th, 2007 in an interview on MSNBC >>Details


Romney
Half-True
"It doesn't make sense to me to send $1-billion a day out of our country. We can be energy independent and should be."

Mitt Romney on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 in Florida. >>Details


Romney
Half-True
"The Republican governor who stood up and cut spending instead of raising taxes."

Mitt Romney on Friday, September 21st, 2007 in a television ad. >>Details


Romney
True
Mitt Romney: the innovator who created and revolutionized American businesses, turned around major companies.

Mitt Romney on Friday, September 21st, 2007 in a television ad. >>Details


Romney
Mostly true
"Took on the Olympics and turned them around"

Mitt Romney on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 in a television ad. >>Details


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