RCP Reports: Mitt Romney discusses the “Contract With America” (by Newt Gingrich) in a 1994 Massachusetts Senate debate:
“In my view, it is not a good idea to go into a contract like what was organized by the Republican Party in Washington laying out a whole series of things which the party said, ‘These are the things we’re going to do.’ I think that’s a mistake. I think instead that if you want to get something done in Washington, you don’t end up picking teams with Republicans on one side and Democrats on the other entering into a contract saying, ‘OK, we’re all going to do this,’ and then of course if that works, then the other side feels like they’re the loser. But if it wins, they feel like the winner. I don’t like winners and losers in Washington. I’d rather say let’s get together and work together.”
