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" 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
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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
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Conservative
Movies
" 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.' "
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" 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
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Child
Education
" 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
" 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
" There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership. "
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Leadership
Business
Political
" The more money you take away from families is the less power that family has. And that's a basic power. "
Rick Santorum
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" 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
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" The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country. "
Rick Santorum
Children
Education
Parents
" 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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Love
" Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage? "
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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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Think
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" President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob. "
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" 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. "
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" There is a difference between legitimate issues of character - someone's behavior - and the issue of whether someone who has done something wrong in their life, now because of those mistakes, can't talk about what is the right thing to do. "
Rick Santorum
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Behavior
Now
" 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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" 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
America
" 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
" 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. "
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Life
Respect
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" The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the more the wheels of capitalism work better because there's trust in the marketplace. Business ethics is not a joke. And, in fact, I think most businesses that I've dealt with encourage exactly that type of behavior. "
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" 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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" 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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" America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world. "
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