Mitt Romney Quotes
Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.
Romney, Mitt. No Apology: The Case for American Greatness. St. Martin's Press, 2010.
Conservatives, while favoring free markets and a great deal of freedom for business, in his era, also supported government control over personal behavior ranging from women’s rights to control their own bodies, to governing the sexual behavior of consenting adults or censoring publications or using drugs and even including the right to commit suicide.
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Hubbard is one of the few 21st century Republican economists who was concerned about lower- and middle-class earnings, and one of the very few who ever advocated increasing government spending at all, much less for this purpose. In the 1950s to the 1970s, this was a common view of many Republican economists and politicians, but in the next 40 years, the Republican party moved away from its Lincoln and liberal traditions, and even became the party of choice for racists.
A single payer system for health insurance saves an enormous amount of money—15 to 20 percent of all health payments made under all health insurance. However, this quotation from a leading Republican disclosed a split in the Republican Party. Many really would like the many billions of dollars that would be saved every year by having one organization pay all health insurance bills as Medicare did, but the large insurance companies, major contributors to Republicans, of course did not want to compete for the single payer where most would lose their administrative overhead and profits from the existing inefficient system. So austerity, normally a strong Republican principle, gave way to the profits of an important Republican contributor base.
Willard Mitt Romney is an American politician and businessman who has served as the junior United States senator from Utah since January 2019, succeeding Orrin Hatch. He served as the 70th governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and was the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2012 election.
