Gary Bauer Quotes (100 Quotes)

We're right in the middle of a horrible event when people are turning to God. They're going to find it very hard to get people to vote for the sort of things they're in favor of.

Nobody has ever bought me, Gary, and nobody ever will.

What I'm hearing right now from the governor is waffling on the one issue that can clearly explain compassionate conservatism. If compassionate conservative means anything, it has to mean do anything we can to stop the loss of 1.5 million unborn children every year.

Governor Bush has been very clear in his signals, that he doesn't intend to do anything about this issue as president, ... That's disappointing, and I think it's going to hurt him deeply in Iowa.

I thought it was extraordinary that I was getting this personal message from the person perceived as the top conservative in the White House, and that had some weight, ... But he said, 'Look, Gary, this guy is a conservative, and he's going to be a reliable conservative on our side of the issues.'

Each of us think that we've got something that we bring to the table that no one else brings. And I don't know any way of solving it other than the marketplace of politics. That's the great value of places like Ames.

They mention people like Priscilla Owen, a federal appeals judge who once wrote a tough anti-abortion decision in Texas and Edith Jones, another appeals judge, who once assailed Roe as an exercise in raw judicial power. ... we are working behind the scenes encouraging the president to nominate a solid conservative who won't leave us guessing.

and explain to her that she couldn't make right the terrible thing that had happened to her by taking the life of her innocent, unborn child.

As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.

It's time we stood up, ... (Brazil) should resign tonight.

And as president I would throw rapists in jail for a long time so America's women wouldn't have to worry about it.

American children are dead. Not in Kosovo, but in Colorado, ... ourselves whether or not America can still be a shining city on a hill or if we are going to continue to sink into the violence and despair.

Our children are being taught a terrible lesson right now. The president of the United States, in all due respect to him and his office, he has hurt the office of the presidency and I believe he ought to be ashamed of himself.

Bush is trying to avoid the Souter mistake by relying on a personal relationship, which the first President Bush did not have. But that, many of us would argue, doesn't get you to where you need to be. Just because you know her heart doesn't tell you her judicial philosophy.

The conventional wisdom is that if you've got high name recognition right now, the front-loading is going to be a great advantage.

The desire for a quick buck in China is making many American corporations forget the fact that they are American corporations.

All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.

My plan is to go all the way to the convention, but after each stop you have to assess your strategy,

The court is the most important division between the two candidates. When Gov. Bush mentioned Scalia and Thomas, it sent an unmistakable message to grass-roots conservatives he will do the right thing.

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

For me, the criteria has to be to find that individual that has the right philosophy and the right experience to get through a confirmation process, ... There are women that fit those characterizations. There are Hispanics, African-Americans.

When I'm in the White House, you will have a reliable friend for home schooling sitting in the Oval Office,

They've made a calculation take action, but with the least discomfort to other portions of the coalition--some of the more moderate suburban women who don't react to this with the same enthusiasm I might.

But I will not vouch for a judicial nominee with that thin of a record. This stealth strategy ought to be dropped as a strategy, because over the years the only people it's fooled are us.

an international bureaucracy that is reluctant to even criticize China, much less sanction it.

We are looking forward to a vibrant competition among politicians for these voters. No one owns them.

I will guarantee that there will be crisis in the Bush presidency, ... There always are in every president's administration, and when those crises come up, the people that stand with him are not going to be the people telling him to go to the middle or to satisfy the liberals or satisfy the Democrats. It's going be the conservative base that elected him.

I'm confused here. I can't tell whether Judge Hecht is arguing that she is going to overturn Roe or she's not going to overturn Roe . If he wants to reassure his fellow pro-life conservatives, that's the last argument he should be making, the argument that he just made.

All these stealth candidates to the court end up getting on and being closet liberals.

If they get to these things this summer, which we expect that they will, that will go a long way toward energizing the values voters at the base of the Republican Party.

I hate to see Pat leave. I think better for conservatives to stay in Republican Party. But he is obviously made his decision, and I'm hoping a lot of his support will come my way, ... Late Edition.

I don't know what compassionate conservatism is if it doesn't include protection for innocent unborn children, ... Fox News Sunday.

Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of government must reject any scheme to permit or promote assisted suicide and euthanasia. We must encourage new efforts to assist p

If voters want to make a serious decision about who should sit in the Oval Office, this is the only issue that involves life and death. We can argue about budget levels, about defense build-ups, or about campaign finance reform. but this one involves who we are. Are we a shining city on a hill Is there enough room for our unborn children I would urge every voter to make a decision exactly on this type of issue.

George Bush doesn't want on his watch to say that marriage, defined as the union of one man and one woman, was lost,

The marriage amendment is in a class by itself because of what's at stake.

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

All children should be welcomed into the world and protected by the law. As President, I would immediately repeal President Clinton's five executive orders that promote abortion. I support a human life bill that defines unborn children as persons under the 14th Amendment. I will vigorously defend the pro-life plank in the Republican platform.

I definitely think there are morale problems and waning enthusiasm.

There's a frustration at the grass-roots level so far.

This country can be better than it is today, and I intend to make it better,

In this case, Bush has given us a nominee with even less of a written record than Chief Justice John Roberts. I, along with millions of other Americans, will wait until the confirmation hearings in order to have a better sense of her judicial philosophy.

My party needs to listen to Main Street, not to Wall Street on this issue.

has put together a tremendous national campaign.

Decrying what he called a culture of death ... I am not going to go away from this issue or ignore it.

Ask the current president of the United States that question and you'll get an essay answer,

I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

It's obvious I'm going to have to win some of these,

You are not called by God to be a Republican, ... You were called on by God to be a Christian citizen.

Why is it that today we had to mark for the 27th time the destruction of one-and-a-half million children