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Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it.

Rick Santorum

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Rick Santorum
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 10
Former United States Senator
Lawyer
Politician
Winchester
Virginia
Richard John Santorum
Richard John Rick Santorum
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I think that could be a very compromising situation where people naturally may do things that may not be in the interest of the mission because of other types of emotions that are involved.
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You can't have a limited government if the family breaks down.
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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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The Democratic Party has become the party of Bernie Sanders, I mean they are the progressives. That's who control.
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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.
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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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Why? Because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and, therefore, less care that has to be done, because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society.
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I don't think the federal government or federal candidates should be making decisions on everything and opining on everything.
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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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The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.
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We need a candidate who's going to be a fighter for freedom. Who is going to get up and make that the central theme in this race because it is the central theme in this race. I don't care what the unemployment rate's going to be. Doesn't matter to me. My campaign doesn't hinge on unemployment rates and growth rates.
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A lesbian woman came up to me and said, ‘why are you denying me my right?’ I said, ‘well, because it’s not a right.’ It’s a privilege that society recognizes because society sees intrinsic value to that relationship over any other relationship.
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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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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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Donald Trump is a good businessman. He knows how to put the deal together. And I think he'd be a - he'll be a very constructive figure in the White House.
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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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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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What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not.
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Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?
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But look what happens when the government gives you rights. When the government gives you rights, unlike when God gives you rights, the government can take them away. When government gives you rights, the government can tell you how to exercise those rights.
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