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All Quotes by author - Sam Brownback

" A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it. "

" America's a faith-based experiment as a country. We should celebrate and invite faith. And our motto is, 'In God We Trust.' This isn't something that divides; this is something that pulls together and lifts us up. "

" An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction. "

" As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'. "

" Consider this: The United States held its first presidential election in 1789. It marked the first peaceful transfer of executive power between parties in the fourth presidential election in 1801, and it took another 200 years' worth of presidential elections before the courts had to settle an election. "

" I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family. "

" I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations. "

" I don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education. "

" I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up. "

" I'll read anything by a guy who spent 40 years in a cave. "

" I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues. "

" Instead of getting angry at somebody for opposing you on something, you're just praying for them. You just pray blessings on them, blessings on their family. "

" I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about. "

" It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet. "

" I've served on the International Relations Committee. "

International Relations

" I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing. "

" My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer. "

" My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system. "

" My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time. "

" One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will. "

" The growth in ethanol and biodiesel is something that I have worked on since I was secretary of agriculture in Kansas. I would like to see a lot more progress, because I think there is a real score to be made on this. "

" Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted. "

" Too often, while well-intentioned, our poverty programs fail the poor. They fail them by keeping them in cycles of dependency. "

" Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care. "

" We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq. "

" We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad. "

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