Mike DeWine Quotes (34 Quotes)

In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives.

When you put on that black robe and assume your spot on the Supreme Court, you will surely bring with you your heart and your soul, the values you learned from your parents and others that you learned as you grew up in the wide open fields of your youth, ... I must say, sir, they must never leave you.

I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill.

That's the way life is. If you don't measure it, it is easier for it to be forgotten,

I expect these hearings will show that you have the appropriate philosophy to lead our nation into the future.

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

There's no easy way to do it, ... Frankly, it's worked out the best for us because that way I get to see the kids every night when I come home for dinner.

I have always been pro-life, and I have felt very strongly about this from the first day I went to Washington, D.C., as a congressman in 1983.

One day before he died, Michael was able to talk to Alicia via satellite phone. Alicia said that 'he just called to tell me he loved me with all his heart and soul,'

There are very few times you can go to the Senate floor and save lives, ... We have it within our power to spare the loss of a child. It is something we ought to do.

The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents.

They were dead wrong.

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

Many fear that our court is making policy, when it repeatedly strikes down laws passed by Congress and the state legislatures,

I know Michael's fellow Marines and his family will forever cherish the memory of their comrade, son, brother, husband and father. His tremendous capacity for love shaped their lives. We will never forget him.

This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.

This individual will ultimately be judged not by any one particular decision he will make, but by a perception about what type of person the attorney general was, ... How did they conduct their office What kind of respect did they have Did they bring honesty, integrity and courage to the job

We moved the president's agenda and have a Supreme Court nominee whom people are happy with,

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

We know what's going on behind the curtain, and we can't wish that knowledge away, however much we would like to. We have to face it and we have to do what's right. And that means passing this bill to ban this barbaric, inhuman, unconscionable practice abortion.

What I saw with my kids was consistent with what I had been hearing, ... I looked around at local (Washington, D.C., driving) schools ... and could not find one that anyone would tell me was a great school.

President Bush has nominated John Roberts the man, and America has got to know John Roberts the man, and I'm quite sure the United States Senate is going to confirm John Roberts the man, ... Please don't check any of that at the door when you walk into the United States Supreme Court.

There's a lot of scenarios. You could have three confirmation hearings at the same time if the president picks someone on the current court to become the next chief justice.

We need you to bring to the court your compassion and your understanding for the lives of others who haven't been as successful as you have been.

Michael was also a volunteer firefighter for the Bethany Pike Fire Department in West Virginia, which he formally joined when he was 18 years old,

After high school, Michael wanted to take the next step and help his country. When he was 17, he urged his mother to support his decision to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps. Though she was hesitant, Marianne knew her son would follow his own path.

It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve.

I put a lot of emphasis on children's issues. Children are many times ignored because they don't vote, and they don't have lobby groups.

walk into a room, and no one was a stranger to him.

If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches...

We got the money because we thought it was an exciting idea that would really help the handicapped, the elderly and anyone else wanting to come fish,

Usually I can get a feel for how something's going to go, but I can't figure this one out. It's not clear to me at all what this bill is going to look like.

We now have what, for the general public, would appear at least to be a rather ludicrous situation. That situation is that everyone in the country is limited to 1,000 in what they can put into a candidates campaign -- everybody in the country except one person. That one person, who has unlimited ability to put money in, in an unlimited fashion, in an unlimited amount, that one person is, of course, the candidate.

Michael would carry this reputation throughout his life. He attended Brooke High School in Wellsburg, where he was a diligent student, gifted athlete and an active participant in school clubs, including one tasked with discouraging fellow teens from using drugs and alcohol,