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" 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
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" 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
" 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
" 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
Mistakes
Behavior
Now
" 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. "
Rick Santorum
Free
Faith
Family
" 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. "
Rick Santorum
Me
America
Week
" 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
" 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. "
Rick Santorum
Help
Political
Vote
" 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
" When I say things like 'Marriage should be between one man and one woman,' I'm called a bigot. "
Rick Santorum
Woman
Things
Like
" President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob. "
Rick Santorum
Go
America
President
" 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 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
" I'm someone who believes that making things creates wealth. "
Rick Santorum
Someone
Making
Who
" 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. "
Rick Santorum
You
Life
Love
" One of the things that I realize is that if you look at big business, I mean, they - and what they fund and what they do, they don't really - they don't fund the small non-profit community-based organizations that really are out there on the front lines helping people. They fund the big philanthropies. They're safe. "
Rick Santorum
Safe
Small
You
" 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
" I cleaned toilets and shined shoes. "
Rick Santorum
Shoes
Cleaned
Toilets
" 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. "
Rick Santorum
Work
Business
Ethics
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Rick Santorum
Economics
Country
Street
" 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 decision he made with Usama bin Laden was a tactical decision. It wasn't a strategic decision. The strategic decision was made by President Bush to go after him. What President Obama has done on his watch, the issues that have come up while he's been president, he's gotten it wrong strategically every single time. "
Rick Santorum
Time
Done
Him
" 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
" Newt Gingrich would be a much better president than Barack Obama. "
Rick Santorum
Better
Much
Would
" Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage? "
Rick Santorum
Standing
Up
Security
" 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. "
Rick Santorum
Office
Think
Conservative
" 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
" 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