Quote by George W. Romney

"I want to be as conservative as the Constitution of the United States, and I'd like to be as progressive as Theodore Roosevelt, and as liberal as Lincoln."

— George W. Romney

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Businesspeople from the United States Republican Party (United States) politicians United States Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development Governors of Michigan

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Reported in Newsweek (November 16, 1964), p. 26, col. 3 — World Topics Year Book: 1966 (Tangley Oaks Educational Center: Lake Bluff, IL, 1966), p. 321: — : I'm trying to be as conservative as the Constitution, as liberal as Lincoln, and as progressive as Teddy Roosevelt. — William V. Shannon, "George Romney: Holy and Hopeful", in Harper's Magazine, vol. 234, no. 1,401 (February, 1967), p. 56: — : I am as conservative as the Constitution, as liberal as Lincoln, and as progressive as Theodore Roos

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George W. Romney

George Wilcken Romney (July 8, 1907 – July 26, 1995) was an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as chairman and president of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, the 43rd governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969, and 3rd secretary of housing and urban development from 1969 to 1973. He was the father of Mitt Romney.

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