Mitt Romney Quotes
I can't possibly predict precisely what the unemployment rate will be at the end of one year. I can tell you that over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we'd put in place, we'd get the unemployment rate down to 6%, and perhaps a little lower.
Romney, Mitt. Interview with Mark Halperin. TIME, 23 May 2012.
This is a statement that in the early 21st century would be made only by ultra liberals. But in the in the late 1940’s this was not only standard democratic party thinking, but a large number of Republicans thought of the Government as the employer of last resort including their Presidential standard bearer.
The mayor was explaining why he established a high-speed, municipal broadband wireless Internet connectivity in a town of only 6 thousand people. There had been none because the private sector didn’t think that they could make money in Scottsburg. A few companies were thinking of moving to a place where they could get modern technological communications tools.
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.