"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

January 1, 1970

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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