By Premiere Networks
May 10, 2021
TODD: Who was the first person in your memory to really describe what Mitt Romney is in terms of governance? Because I'm a big fan of the idea that there's no such thing as Mitt Romney, that he doesn't exist, that there is a father who's a really good father, loves his kids very much named Mitt Romney. There is a businessman, Mitt Romney, who is shrewd and brilliant and strategic, and creates values or spots undervalued assets and sometimes breaks them up and sells them, which has a human cost to it, of course.
Then there's a guy who wants to be everybody's papa. And that's another Mitt Romney. And, in politics, there is no solid Mitt Romney. I bet you if you went to Mitt and you talked to him about parenting I bet his principles never changed. I bet they've been solid from Day One. I bet if you went to him in business it would be about the fundamentals and value creation and are we building this entity to last or are we building it to flip, or are we looking at this entity as something we can improve or something we could break up and sell? And I bet those are numbers-based decisions.