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" America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world. "
Rick Santorum
Honor
Country
History
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" Saddam Hussein was not an Islamist. He's not a radical jihadist. He's not a radical Muslim. I mean, he was a - he was a Baathist. He was a secular - even though he professed to be a good and devout Muslim. "
Rick Santorum
Good
He
Muslim
" The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. "
Rick Santorum
Down
Government
Consequences
" I think I'm the best candidate not just to beat President Obama, but to do what is necessary to get this country going, a conviction conservative who can rally the American public around a common set of values. "
Rick Santorum
American
Country
Think
" Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships. "
Rick Santorum
Marriage
Future
History
" 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. "
Rick Santorum
Marriage
Speak
Man
" I looked at No Child Left Behind after it was enacted and saw what happened and saw the expansion of the federal government and the role of education. And I said, you know, that was - that's not what I believe in. "
Rick Santorum
Believe
Child
Education
" I have lots of favorites movies. I say this only because it's a favorite movie because it's a sport I love. I'm a huge baseball fan. There are movies I like as much as this, but I sort of single this movie out because I'm a baseball nut, and that's 'Field of Dreams.' "
Rick Santorum
Say
Baseball
Dreams
" There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership. "
Rick Santorum
Leadership
Business
Political
" My view is the less the government can do and the more freedom and opportunity you give people, that trusting people and free people and free enterprise - that America has built the greatest country in the history of the world. "
Rick Santorum
People
History
Freedom
" Newt Gingrich would be a much better president than Barack Obama. "
Rick Santorum
Better
Much
Would
" I have nothing, absolutely nothing against anyone who's homosexual. If that's their orientation, then I accept that. And I have no problem with someone who has other orientations. "
Rick Santorum
Accept
Nothing
Problem
" I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now. "
Rick Santorum
America
Alone
Finance
" The problem is neutrality ends in poverty, neutrality ends in choices that hurt people's lives. This administration is deliberately telling organizations that are there to help young girls make good choices, not to tell them what the good choice is. That is absolutely unconscionable. "
Rick Santorum
Help
Good
Young
" I think there are a lot of successful people in this country who connect amazingly well with the American people and have - and one of the reasons they are successful is because they connect well. "
Rick Santorum
People
Who
American
" My work with Patriot Voices actually dovetails very well into the work I'm going to be doing with EchoLight. I'll be traveling around the country, doing a lot of radio interviews, a lot of media interviews, so I don't see that as all inconsistent. "
Rick Santorum
Doing
Media
See
" 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. "
Rick Santorum
Fact
Some
Came
" I'll never forget the first time I saw someone who had died. It was my grandfather. And I knelt next to his coffin. And all I could do was eye level was look at his hands. They were enormous hands. And all I could think was, 'Those hands dug freedom for me.' "
Rick Santorum
Eye
Time
Think
" But look what happens when the government gives you rights. When the government gives you rights, unlike when God gives you rights, the government can take them away. When government gives you rights, the government can tell you how to exercise those rights. "
Rick Santorum
You
Government
Exercise
" In 2006 it was a horrible election year, and, you know, I lost. But I lost because I continued to be a constant conservative, and the last six years I was someone who was a national figure in the sense that I was the third ranking Republican in leadership and I had just run President Bush's campaign in Pennsylvania. "
Rick Santorum
Know
Run
Lost
" My mom was a working woman. She made more money than my dad. Both my parents worked. And this was in the '60s. "
Rick Santorum
Working
Parents
Mom
" The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave. "
Rick Santorum
Life
Respect
Marriage
" The president of the United States is a commander-in-chief, and the president of the United States, you know, executes the laws and tries to motivate the American public to make changes that are necessary. It's not necessarily a CEO type of position. "
Rick Santorum
American
Changes
Know
" But the reason America is a great country, the reason is because our compassion is in our laws. And when we live by those laws and we treat everybody equally under the law, that's when people feel good about being Americans. "
Rick Santorum
Compassion
Live
Great
" My feeling is, well, if it's my money, I have a right to judge. "
Rick Santorum
Well
Right
Money
" President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob. "
Rick Santorum
Go
America
President
" There are conservatives in Hollywood who make good movies. They just don't make conservative movies because that's not what gets funded. "
Rick Santorum
Hollywood
Conservative
Movies
" NASCAR and the Daytona 500 are about as American as you can get. "
Rick Santorum
You
NASCAR
Get
" My feeling is that the judge has a responsibility to the Constitution first, precedent second. Precedent is one factor. It is not the only factor. If it was the only factor, then, you know, we wouldn't have had Roe vs. Wade. We wouldn't have had Griswold. We wouldn't have had Lawrence. We wouldn't have had all these cases which the Left love. "
Rick Santorum
Constitution
Know
Responsibility
" 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. "
Rick Santorum
Need
Problems
View
" If you look at the big entertainment industry and their pursuit of the bottom line profits in exchange for producing content and distributing that content and marketing that content to inappropriate audiences, that's a problem for me. "
Rick Santorum
Look
Me
Problem