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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.

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Rick Santorum
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 10
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You can say I'm a hater. But I would argue I'm a lover. I'm a lover of traditional families and of the right of children to have a mother and father... I would argue that the future of America hangs in the balance, because the future of the family hangs in the balance. Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?
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In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!
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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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Newt Gingrich would be a much better president than Barack Obama.
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As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else. It's being drawn to Iraq. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the eye to come back to the United States.
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If just a few people make decisions about what this world looks like, what this country looks like, then you have people sitting in offices at major media outlets and Hollywood who think they can deal with a small group of people, to get them to jump through the hoops they want you to.
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We are seeing it. We are seeing the fabric of this country fall apart, and it’s falling apart because of single moms.
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Satan is attacking the great institutions of America. This is a spiritual war. I believe in good and evil.
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CO2 is a pollutant? Tell that to the plants.
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This is an issue just like 9/11. We didn’t decide we wanted to fight the war on terrorism because we wanted to. It was brought to us. And if not now, when? When the supreme courts in all the other states have succumbed to the Massachusetts version of the law?
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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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If all you think we need to do to get this economy going and get this country on the right track is to cut government and reduce taxes, you don't understand America. America is a moral enterprise, not an economic enterprise.
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We need to have a president that's going to pledge, as I have - I'm going to make America the number-one manufacturer so working men and women can have good paying jobs again in America.
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Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it.
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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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Yeah, remember, under the Bush administration, welfare — I mean, excuse me, poverty among African Americans and among single unmarried women, poverty was at the lowest rate ever in the history of this country. So Obama’s policies are not working, Bush polices worked! For long a time as a matter of fact.
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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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The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.
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