Corporate Identity Quotes
Brightstar, owned by Sprint, had 70 percent of the Venezuelan cell telephone market when leftist and anti-American Hugo Chavez was the President of Venezuela. The company served it’s Venezuelan customers well at competitive prices and created many jobs at all levels for Venezuelans. Chavez allowed them to stay in the market.
Romney was trying to explain that the Supreme Court had recently ruled that for purposes of placing limits on campaign donations, corporations were entitled to the same rights of free speech and contributing money as people. The candidate chose this statement to express that view. However, the way Romney phrased it made many people suspect that perhaps, because of his lifetime corporate activity, he really thought that there were no differences between corporations and people. This suspicion reinforced a public feeling that Romney was much more corporately oriented than he was people oriented, and that hurt Romney with many voters.
