Mitt Romney in His Own Words
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“I do not define my candidacy by my religion. A person should not be elected because of his faith nor should he be rejected because of his faith.” (“Faith in America” speech, 2007)
“We’re the party of opportunity. We’re the party of keeping taxes down. We’re the party that want people to have choice in their schools and choice in their health care.” (This Week with George Stephanopoulos, 2009)
“When I was a little kid, there used to be the ditty that went around: first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage. Today that idea is foreign to some kids.”(The Charlie Rose Show, 2006)
“The older I get, the smarter Dad is. I pattern myself like him—his character, his sense of vision, his sense of purpose.” (Time, 2007)
“America has been a force for good like no other in the world, and for that, we will make no apology.” (Values Voter Summit, 2010)
Phillip Hines
Phillip Hines is the author of LeBron James in His Own Words: An Unofficial Quotebook and, for college students, How I Make $20/Hour Going to the Beach, Concerts, Festivals, and Professional Sporting Events and How You Can, Too. He is also an independent contractor for several national and global experiential marketing companies, creating, planning, and executing campaigns for major brands, including Nissan, Quiznos, Wonka, Dell, Nintendo, and State Farm.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The standard disclaimer applies: I received this book free as a promotion from GoodReads so I didn't pay a thing for it. Despite this generous display of largess my typical honest review follows. Further, it is generally difficult when reading a book with a political bent to separate the book and its execution from the content. If the book shares ideas that you agree with then you are automatically more prone to think highly of it. This is an unavoidable reality of humanity that I will attempt to escape the influence of. It's also difficult to be objective because the return address on the envelope in which I received this book had the author's name and address. So clearly this isn't some huge mega-corporation sending me a book but instead some real person who put forth effort to write it.Sadly, despite all the disclaimers and influences above I was exceptionally disappointed in this offering. It is what it says it is and no more: a collection of Romney quotes. The quotes focus almost exclusively on the last six years which makes them fundamentally all from the context of a campaign whose obvious goal is to appeal to the largest number of potential voters. There's little of the real man here but rather standard political demagoguery. I didn't really learn anything about Romney in this book. I learned that the standard Republican platform was phrased in Romney's words. That's not especially helpful.Structurally the book is haphazard. The author has gone to great pains to break the quotes up into very granular categories but there is much overlap and some categories are trivially short. It's almost as if the author broke down his content into more categories just to make the book seem more substantial since a new category with only one entry allows him to leave three quarters of a page blank. Most disappointing was the fact that the author didn't really write anything. There is a brief introduction which I assume to be a product of the author but the bulk of the book is just very loosely categorized quotations, taken from public records and given verbatim without any commentary or editorial oversight whatsoever. I could have written a very simple computer program to do the same job just by looking at key words and putting things into buckets to be printed out by the publisher. That's not writing; it's just sorting.So to sum up, this book paints a poor and limited picture of Mitt Romney as a person. As a work of reference it is poorly and insufficiently organized but perhaps sufficient to serve the needs of some author of the future who will write a real book about the man who may or may not become our next president.
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Mitt Romney in His Own Words - Phillip Hines
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DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL
ABORTION
I believe people will see that as governor, when I had to examine and grapple with this difficult issue, I came down on the side of life. I know in the four years I have served as governor I have learned and grown from the exposure to the thousands of good-hearted people who are working to change the culture in our country. I’m committed to promoting the culture of life. Like Ronald Reagan, and Henry Hyde, and others who became pro-life, I had this issue wrong in the past.
—National Review Online, December 14, 2006
Conservatives, of course, can make their own assessment. But the great thing is people don’t have to look at what people say, they can look at what they do. When I was running for office 12 years ago, there were a number of things that I said and felt at that time that, with the benefit of experience, I have a different view today. One of those is abortion. As governor, I’ve had several pieces of legislation reach my desk that would have expanded abortion rights in Massachusetts. Each of those I vetoed. Every action I’ve taken as governor that relates to the sanctity of human life, I have stood on the side of life. So talk is cheap, but action is real. And people can now look at my record.
—Human Events, January 8, 2007
Abortion is taking human life. There’s no question but that human life begins when all the DNA is there necessary for cells to divide and become a human being. Is it alive? Yes. Is it human? Yes. And, therefore, when we abort a fetus, we are taking a life at its infancy, at its very, very beginning roots, and a civilized society, I believe, respects the sanctity of human