Former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney believes that he would have been more effective in the White House than President Barack Obama, additionally claiming that he would make a better president than expected Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, the New York Daily News reported.
But then again, he reiterates that he has no plans to run in the next presidential election.
"No question about that in my mind," he said, when asked about the possibility of being a better commander-in-chief than Obama, in a "Fox News Sunday" interview.
And what about being a better president than Hillary Clinton, who is likely to run in 2016?
"No question. The American people may disagree with me," he repeated, before taking his criticism of the former secretary of state a step further.
"Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are two peas in the same pod," he said. "And the American people have tasted that and have said, 'Look, it's not a good taste.'"
In Sunday's interview, Romney took some shots at Obama's foreign policy and Hillary Clinton's experience, citing continued high U.S. unemployment and growing troubles abroad, according to Politix.
"Look. You've got to get this economy going. You've got to have people that know what it takes to create jobs," Romney said. "You've also got to have people who have actually run something. I don't think Hillary Clinton has that experience."
Yet, he said he didn't want to dwell on the past, while admitting he had made mistakes in his campaign - and that the Obama campaign did a good job of picking up on them, the Associated Press reported.
Despite these remarks, Romney, who lost the 2012 presidential election handily to Obama and didn't even make it out of the GOP nominating process in 2008, denied that he would attempt a third presidential run for president.
"I'm not running, I'm not planning on running," he said. "My time has come and gone. I had that opportunity. I ran and didn't win."
