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Mike Leavitt

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first: 2017-02-16
most recent: 2017-02-16
sittings or episodes: 1
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“And that drew me to an opportunity. And as they say, the rest is history. I ran for governor and was fortunate enough to win. I served there for three terms. I had opportunities then to play, to occupy a couple of seats in a president's cabinet. It's been a great ride. And I think what I've enjoyed about it mostly is that it makes you feel like you're involved in something bigger than yourself. And I think we all want that in one form or another to feel as though our life matters, that our thoughts and ideas are focused on the improvement of society. And I found it there.”
2017-02-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 122 - Mike Leavitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I got into politics. I can't say by accident. I've always been interested in it, but I started managing campaigns and I managed four Senate campaigns, a couple of governors' campaigns got involved in the presidential election, and it taught me the process. And then I got engaged in public service. And I found first in education. And I could see that if you really wanted to get things done, you needed to be, as they say in the Hamilton musical in the room.”
2017-02-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 122 - Mike Leavitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was not a good start, but he then became a member of the state legislature and ultimately ran for governor, and there was no one to manage his campaign who would work harder or cheaper than me, and I ended up managing it. And while he did not lose, he exceeded expectations, and it launched me into an entirely different path than I had expected.”
2017-02-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 122 - Mike Leavitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My first recollection of anything political was going to the Iron County Fair where my father was running for the state legislature and to my great humiliation my mother required that we wear a white t-shirt with a campaign brochure Elmers glued to our front and our back and our job was to walk around and draw attention to ourselves.”
2017-02-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 122 - Mike Leavitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it was that was a valuable background for me, the whole area of how you manage risk and how you create pools of risk and how What it takes to have the integrity of actuarial science is a big part of what I learned as a young professional.”
2017-02-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 122 - Mike Leavitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was a minor part of it, it was mostly in other lines of insurance, property and casualty, but it ultimately became part of it.”
2017-02-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 122 - Mike Leavitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He did. He started it in the basement of his home and over the course of it still operates. They have 100 and... thirty some odd insurance brokerages around the country, and it's a great American dream story, and I've watched it happen because his office was right next to my bedroom when he started.”
2017-02-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 122 - Mike Leavitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've actually had three careers in my life. I'm one of the lucky people who have enjoyed everything I have done. My first career was building businesses in the risk management world, and the second was my government service, and the third I've had the good fortune of spending most of my time thinking about healthcare since I left public service. So the whole area of how you manage risk and how you take care of people's needs in both economic sense as well as a public policy sense has been a big part of my life.”
2017-02-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 122 - Mike Leavitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But you have to be pretty studious to get to it, but it's true Actually, the Levites landed in Massachusetts in, I think, sixteen twenty nine, the King's Forester was Levitt, and he was sent here to find out if there was anything worth having in these new colonies. And he returned saying there was a lot. And so the first Levitt actually to come to the United States, well, to the colonies. Actually, it was a stowaway, as best I can tell. He was an apprentice tailor and hated it. And that was, of course, a contract, a very serious contract, and he broke it, stowed away on the ship, went to Massachusetts, found his way into the end of Vermont. And that's the history. And in the course of that, that line works its way into Thomas Dudley.”
2017-02-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 122 - Mike Leavitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But life has gotten nothing but better for me And I have great parents, I have five brothers, no sisters. I grew up in this small town. I tell people that if you knew the sitcom, leave it to Beaver and the adventure bonanza, and you molded those two, that is my adolescence.”
2017-02-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 122 - Mike Leavitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I'm a westerner, and that is, of course, by heritage. My father's Heritage comes from England, my mother's comes from Sweden. They were both Mormon pioneer families who found their way in different ways, actually through Illinois, and then to Utah. My father grew up in a small town in the southern corner of Nevada called Bunkerville. My mother in a very small town. Now we're talking a town of 300 people in both these cases, so very small in the south-central part of Utah called Loa, Utah. They met in a little town called Cedar City, which is a college town where they both came to be the first in their family to go to college. They married, lived in a little mobile home with no bathroom. I was the oldest born to them. They walked to the hospital. A few blocks away and had me, I lived in that little town for”
2017-02-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 122 - Mike Leavitt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source