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" Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them. "
Rick Santorum
Church
Family
Government
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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. "
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He
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" I do care about not 99 percent or 95 percent. I care about the very rich and the very poor. I care about 100 percent of America. "
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Very
Care
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" 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. "
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" As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across this country. "
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Country
Street
" 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. "
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" Newt Gingrich would be a much better president than Barack Obama. "
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Much
Would
" Capitalism actually encourages morality because capitalism can't function well if people can't trust each other and people aren't honest, if a deal isn't a deal. "
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Morality
People
" Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government. "
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" When I say things like 'Marriage should be between one man and one woman,' I'm called a bigot. "
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Woman
Things
Like
" 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. "
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Down
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Consequences
" 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
" Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage? "
Rick Santorum
Standing
Up
Security
" 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
" It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that if Americans do three things, they can avoid poverty. Three things. Work, graduate from high school, and get married before you have children. "
Rick Santorum
You
School
Work
" The more money you take away from families is the less power that family has. And that's a basic power. "
Rick Santorum
Power
Away
Family
" 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
" 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
" 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 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
" We had 90 percent rates, but nobody paid them. And so you had all these exemptions, exclusions, shelters, all this kind of stuff. And that's why most Americans are saying, 'Look, let's just be honest. Let's have lower rates, but everybody pays them.' "
Rick Santorum
You
Kind
Honest
" People of faith, people of no faith, people of different faith, that's what America is all about; it's bringing that diversity into and challenge of the different ideas that motivate people in our country. That's what makes America work. "
Rick Santorum
Challenge
Diversity
Faith
" Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It's something that reflects nature and reflects God and God's will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it's beneficial for society. "
Rick Santorum
Society
Nature
Marriage
" 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
" I watch the Food Network with my kids. We - yeah, I - I - I generally don't admit that, but I love cooking. "
Rick Santorum
Kids
Food
Love
" What makes America great was a government that was founded to be limited to doing one thing. I really believe the whole purpose of America, the aspirational value - why everybody who wants to come to this country wants to come here - was because we respected the dignity of every living person. "
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Great
Value
Doing
" My feeling is, well, if it's my money, I have a right to judge. "
Rick Santorum
Well
Right
Money
" 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
" 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. "
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" NASCAR and the Daytona 500 are about as American as you can get. "
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You
NASCAR
Get
" 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. "
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Me
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