Every human - especially the most vulnerable, the unborn, the infirm, those ravaged by age and those desperate in despair - should be protected in law, loved, and told repeatedly of their incredible beauty and worth.
— Sam Brownback
I don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education.
I voted yes for ANWR, and I would support those in other places, environmentally sound.
I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.
I'll read anything by a guy who spent 40 years in a cave.
I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing.
I strongly support an 'all-of-the-above' energy policy that includes additional development of wind, clean coal, and bio-fuels.
Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.
I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.
I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.
I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.
I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.
Let's create a legal system that can work.
I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care.
It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.
Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.
My faith makes me willing to do things that may look like there's going to be a lot of physical difficulty. And you just go ahead and do it because you truly believe it's the right thing to do.
I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.
I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.
At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.
This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.
We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.
As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.
No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.
My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time.
I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.
I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
I still have a lot of judgmentalism in me, where I'd see somebody, and I just would, you know, I disagree with this person, and you kind of automatically cast them away. And even though you don't do anything physically, you don't say anything, but people get a real sense of your heart.
I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.
I'd just come through cancer in 1995. Which really changed my soul. It really did. It changed me... It made my faith alive - and real. God's real.
My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.
The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.
I always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins.
What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.
None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.
Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.
