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Marriage is what marriage is... It’s like going out and saying, ‘That tree is a car.’ Well, the tree’s not a car. A tree’s a tree. Marriage is marriage.

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Rick Santorum
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 10
Former United States Senator
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Winchester
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Pick any other Republican in the country. He is the worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama.
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I have a problem with homosexual acts.
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CO2 is a pollutant? Tell that to the plants.
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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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Obamacare is a failure but you're going to need 60 votes to change preexisting conditions - other things to make the system work and that's the problem of repealing and replacing, is you can't do it because it's a broken system.
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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.
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Prayer and hard work are a pretty good one-two punch to get things done.
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NASCAR and the Daytona 500 are about as American as you can get.
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Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?
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[Health reform] will destroy the country [because] in the next year or so [America will have to] dramatically cut the military because we can't pay for it.
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I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.
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I'm someone who believes that making things creates wealth.
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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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If the Constitution says that marriage is between a man and woman, then things that are inconsistent with that would be inconsistent with the Constitution.
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Newt Gingrich would be a much better president than Barack Obama.
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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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Big Business wants cheap labor costs.
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We’ve seen with this president, experience matters. When that phone call comes at three o’clock in the morning, I will be up and ready for the call because I will know what’s going on in the world around us.
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Everybody knows full well my passion about defeating Barack Obama. Over my dead body would I vote for Barack Obama.
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Against the advice of my wife, I endorsed Arlen Specter. I should have listened to my wife.
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