Character

"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest." Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

Mitt Romney and Character Quotes

• “I believe people who are in a position of visibility and leadership affect the character of young people and individuals who look to them as leaders. And in some respects just as important as their policies and positions is there character and their substance. What for me makes people like Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt and John Adams and George Washington and Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan such extraordinary leaders is that they had integrity through and through. What they were on the inside and what they said on the outside was harmonious. There a lot of people like that. I think that if people try to live a very different personal life not consistent with the role they’ve assumed as a governor or senator or president, we lose something as a nation.”
  • Governor Mitt Romney, The Atlantic (September 2005)

• Well, I happen to believe that one of the most important things a president of the United States does is set a culture of integrity, character, vision, patriotism, that the values that a president is known for and lives by live on well beyond some of his or her policies -- I guess all his, at this point. His policies. And, you know, I will go back -- and read a couple of books about Teddy Roosevelt last year, ”Theodore Rex” and ”The Rise of Teddy Roosevelt,” I looked at some of his policies and said, gosh, I have exactly the opposite view today. The Republic Party has a different view then it did back in 1900.
  • Governor Mitt Romney, C-Span Transcript, BRIAN LAMB, HOST

• "And that’s something he promised to do and has done, whether you agree with him or disagree with him on the issues. There is no question that he is a man of vision, character, and knows where he stands."
  • Governor Mitt Romney, on George W. Bush, C-Span Transcript, BRIAN LAMB, HOST

Mitt Romney is a person of character.

Reasons to agree:

• “I believe people who are in a position of visibility and leadership affect the character of young people and individuals who look to them as leaders. And in some respects just as important as their policies and positions is there character and their substance. What for me makes people like Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt and John Adams and George Washington and Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan such extraordinary leaders is that they had integrity through and through. What they were on the inside and what they said on the outside was harmonious. There a lot of people like that. I think that if people try to live a very different personal life not consistent with the role they’ve assumed as a governor or senator or president, we lose something as a nation.” –Source: The Atlantic (September 2005)

• He did not take a pay check for the olympics, or for his job as Governor.

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Questions for Governor Mitt Romney

Character

1. How do you convince voters that some of these changes are sincere, coming from conviction?

Character

1. George Stephanopoulos
1. How do you convince voters that some of these changes are sincere, coming from conviction?