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" I cleaned toilets and shined shoes. "
Rick Santorum
Shoes
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" I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I don't think most people understand that when I wasn't running for president, I was working. Because I have to earn income. I have three kids in college. And three in school. And I have a little girl that has a lot of special needs. So I've got to work for a living. I was working already. "
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People
" I watch the Food Network with my kids. We - yeah, I - I - I generally don't admit that, but I love cooking. "
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" You can't have a limited government if the family breaks down. "
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You
" 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
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Doing
" 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. "
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Help
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Office
Think
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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. "
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Church
Family
Government
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Rick Santorum
Capitalism
Morality
People
" 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
" 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. "
Rick Santorum
Very
Care
America
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
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You
School
Work
" I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.' They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self. "
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You
Life
Love
" Look at the political base of the Democratic Party: It is single mothers who run a household. Why? Because it's so tough economically that they look to the government for help and therefore they're going to vote. "
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Help
Political
Vote
" My mom was a working woman. She made more money than my dad. Both my parents worked. And this was in the '60s. "
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Working
Parents
Mom
" 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. "
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People
Who
American
" Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government. "
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Believe
Mind
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" President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob. "
Rick Santorum
Go
America
President
" 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. "
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" Who are benefits promised to, overwhelmingly? Well, they're promised to older people. And if you have a society like Europe that is upside down where there are a lot more older people than younger people, you have economic calamity. "
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People
Society
You
" You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies. "
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Free
Faith
Family