Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney is an American businessman and Republican party politician, who served as the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003-2007. He is also the son of George W Romney (former Governor of Michigan) and Lenore Romney.
Romney earned an undergraduate degree at Stanford University and BYU where he was Valedictorian. He then earned a joint MBA/J.D. from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, graduating cum laude from law school and in the top 5% of his MBA class. Romney shortly began working for Bain & Company where he rose to become the CEO. He then co-founded Bain Capitol, a private equity investment firm, which became one of the largest such firms in the nation during his time there.
Romney organized and steered the 2002 Winter Olympics as President and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, and helped turn the troubled games into a financial success.
He was a candidate for the Republican nomination for the 2008 United States presidential election and later the Republican nominee for the 2012 United States presidential election.
Romney has received honorary degrees from the University of Utah (1999), Bentley College (2002), Suffolk University Law School (2004), and Hillsdale College (2007).
In 2008, he shared with his wife Ann the Canterbury Medal from The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, for "refus[ing] to compromise their principles and faith" during the Presidential campaign."
Romney is married to Ann Romney and has five sons, five daughters in law and 15 grandkids.
For further details, see the author's Wikipedia page.
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“Corporations are people my friend”
“I oppose same-sex marriage and civil unions but I support domestic partnership between gay and lesbian couples. I have no problem with gay and lesbian couples adopting. I support equal benefits for same-sex couples such as hospital visitation rights”
“I oppose same-sex marriage but I would advance equal rights in employment for gay and lesbian people. I appointed a few judges who were gay and I had few people in my cabinet that I found out were gay. I never asked peoples sexual orientation.”
“... "England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn't been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler's ambitions."~ nothing about its people and their steel will or courage, nothing about their history and legacy we share, nothing about the timbre of their values and virtues, just "..”
“I bathe in statistics.”
“America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion dollars ago.”
“Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.”
“Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people.”
“In order to become a success, a business doesn't just have to do well, it has to to better than its competitors. Being number one isn't just about bragging rights. Often it means the difference between prospering and merely hanging on.”