Rick Santorum Quotes (68 Quotes)


    I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts.

    They'll go to any extent to try to avoid ... any discussion about shrinking the size of government. Being more responsible with the taxpayers' dollars is just so painful that they had to go into private session to recoup and come out again hopefully soon so we can get back to the business at hand,

    Sen. Daschle has just said 'no,' ... He has repeatedly said 'no, no, no' to a bill that has bipartisan support, that the president has asked for time and time again, and that the American people overwhelmingly support.

    But what about religious youngsters who find themselves in a public school hermetically sealed off from all religious influences Would not the school, and therefore the government, tacitly be communicating to religious youngsters that prayer, religion, and faith are not really welcome in America's public square That is where we have ended up Court-sanctioned hostility to religious influence in American society, all in the name of neutrality.

    We'll take a number as good as we can get here and take it to House-Senate conference to fix it


    I make the argument, I got hammered for this, that parents should actually consider spending less time at work and more time with their families, ... ... I'll take the hit for saying parents need to parent.

    I think he set a great standard going forward for judicial nominees, as to laying out the proper role of the court. That's one of the things I think we've lost. We've gotten into this battle, we want a liberal or a conservative. No, what we want is someone who decides the case before them as narrowly as possible.

    This is a huge victory for the people of the 911th,

    This is simply a bidding game. It is a political bidding game to get support that they care more about this issue than the president.

    Sometimes we have to adopt screwy tax policy to get a bill,

    Carnegie Mellon's ... effort will, for the first time, establish a public-private partnership that will help safeguard our national security,

    you leave open the door for a variety of other sexual activities to occur within the home and not be regulated.

    If the most liberal man that's ever been in office can get elected when 20 percent of the population identifies as liberal then I think we can elect a conservative when 40 percent of the population identifies themselves as conservative.

    My feeling is, well, if it's my money, I have a right to judge.

    I mean the fact is that some of this information that we have found out that led to Usama bin Laden actually came from these enhanced interrogation techniques.

    It's no secret that we have to get all of our Republican members to vote for this bill. Right now, we do not have all of our Republican members.

    unfortunate, it was disappointing. It was uncalled for. I hope he thinks better of it and retracts his statement.

    Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

    The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.

    What happened in America so that mothers and fathers who leave their children in the care of someone else ... find themselves more affirmed by society ... Here, we can thank the influence of radical feminism, one of the core philosophies of the village elders.

    The fact that so many are troubled still with the unlimited right of abortion is a powerful statement as to where this country stands on abortion.

    It's essential for individuals born before 1950 to understand that they will experience no change in their benefits as a result of reform.

    I can assure your actions have not gone unnoticed, ... I commend you for all of the assurance and compassion you provide for people in need.

    I think it was a consensus among members of Congress, and I think the president is receptive to the idea.

    Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?

    We are not cutting health care services to the beneficiaries. We have squeezed some fraud out. We have squeezed providers.


    I think what we've learned is that there's still a simmering problem in America when it comes to race, and that the solutions that we've had to try to deal with the problem in the past have really not solved that problem, ... Face the Nation.

    What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not.

    There is no one person in the Bush administration who is indispensable with the exception of the president,

    The scope of the Katrina disaster across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama far exceeds anything ... So that's why I think it requires a lot more special attention.

    If Darwin is right, I have organized my life around an illusion, ... We have no moral demands if we are evolved.

    Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture, ... When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.

    If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual gay sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything.

    The No. 1 concern of the federal government is national security. It has to be.

    Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.

    This was tried once before in America, when the liberty and happiness rights of the slaveholder were put over the life and liberty rights of the slave. But unlike abortion today, in most states even the slaveholder did not have unlimited right to kill his slave,

    I have six children ages 4-14. And the idea of coming off a race of the intensity that I am engaged in at this point and turning around and running another two-year campaign for president is not something that I believe is in the best interest of my family,

    We really have an obligation to keep our eye on the ball here, ... The ball is helping those, the needy, in our society.

    That the gruesome surgical procedure opponents called partial birth abortion ... the calculated killing of the nearly born.

    I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.

    He has quite an admirable record of race relations in Mississippi and got the unanimous support of the African-American community in Mississippi, including the NAACP.

    I would say ... that moving jobs overseas is a reality of global competition, ... If you come from Pennsylvania, we've lost a lot of jobs from global competition. I think that's just a truth, if you will.


    Thirty-two years after the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life.

    You have people who don't heed those warnings and then put people at risk as a result of not heeding those warnings. There may be a need to look at tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out and understand that there are consequences to not leaving.

    come forward and lay out what he did and why he did it and let the people then judge for themselves.

    We have just in Pennsylvania alone, 300 years worth of coal sitting in the ground that we aren't really utilizing now because of concern for the environment, and it's a legitimate concern, but one that we can overcome,

    In his new book, It Takes a Family, ... all politicians know that when you engage in any traditional values issue ... adjectives like intolerant, rigid, far-right, mean-spirited, extreme, hard-line and zealous will routinely be used to describe you.

    The administration I think has been very forthright... I think they had the best information that they thought was reliable at the time the president said it.


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