The fact is that I spent twenty-five years in the private sector. And that obviously teaches you something that you don't learn if you haven't spent any time in the private sector. If you were to say to me, tell me what you learned from your schooling that would help you be a President, it's like, well, how do I begin going through a list like that? You learn through life's experience. The President's experience has been exclusively in politics and as a community organizer. Both of those are fine areas of endeavor. But right now we have an economy in trouble, and someone who spent their career in the economy is more suited to help fix the economy than someone who spent his life in politics and as a community organizer.


"The Complete Romney Interview Transcript", TIME, 23 May 2012

Mitt Romney Quotes

The fact is that I spent twenty-five years in the private sector. And that obviously teaches you something that you don't learn if you haven't spent...

The fact is that I spent twenty-five years in the private sector. And that obviously teaches you something that you don't learn if you haven't spent...

The fact is that I spent twenty-five years in the private sector. And that obviously teaches you something that you don't learn if you haven't spent...

The fact is that I spent twenty-five years in the private sector. And that obviously teaches you something that you don't learn if you haven't spent...