Why did you marry Ann?

VAN SUSTEREN: Governor, you have been married an awful long time. What was it about your wife? Why did you marry her?

M. ROMNEY: She was gorgeous. That's the reason I took her home. She came with somebody else, and I said, you know...

VAN SUSTEREN: At this party?

M. ROMNEY: At this party. I said, you know...

VAN SUSTEREN: You didn't tell me that. You left that part out.

M. ROMNEY: I live closer to her than you do, so why don't I give her a ride home? And I gave her a ride home, and I was smitten. And we started dating. And instead of just moving on, I really enjoyed spending time with her. And the truth of the matter is, I don't know how you define love, but I would have rather been with her than anywhere else. I didn't want to be away. And we were with each other constantly that last year in high school that I was there. I was a senior.

A. ROMNEY: He went to Stanford. I mean, that was his — really, that was like March, April of his senior year. And then we were together that summer, and then he was at Stanford that fall.

M. ROMNEY: But I got a job and saved some money and would fly home and see her. Her parents knew about that. Mine didn't.

A. ROMNEY: Yes, that's right.

M. ROMNEY: And...

VAN SUSTEREN: Your parents didn't know you were flying home?

A. ROMNEY: No.

M. ROMNEY: No. I don't think my parents would have been happy.

A. ROMNEY: No.

M. ROMNEY: So...

A. ROMNEY: He got a job because his parents didn't want him to have a job, because they wanted him to take his studies very seriously and just study. Well, he wanted to fly home and...

M. ROMNEY: There are priorities in life, and Ann was my biggest priority.

VAN SUSTEREN: And you never looked back, apparently.

M. ROMNEY: We are still going steady. It's working.