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I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.

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Sam Brownback
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 12
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To kill [children in the womb] makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded.
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I believe you [Samuel Alito] and others would look and say that the role of the courts is limited and it's not to decide political matters.
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In recent years, even as the court has become an increasingly political body, the Senate is not focused on preserving any perceived ideological balance when Democrat presidents have appointed people to the court.
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If you get married, you lose all your benefits. That's insane! We should give people bonuses for getting married, and sending signals and talking about it to the society.
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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.
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We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.
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I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.
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[Felix Frankfurter] said courts are not representative bodies. They're not designed to be a good reflex of a democratic society. Their judgment is best informed and, therefore, most dependable within narrow limits.
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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Most Americans want judges who will stick to interpreting the law rather than making it.
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The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues.
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You can raise good children in single parent households, and many of you perhaps here today come from that type of environment. It is possible and many do it in heroic situations, but it's much more difficult and the numbers move against us in a broad society.
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I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
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Seats on the [Court] bench are not reserved for causes or interests. They're given to those who will uphold the rule of law so long as the nominee is well-qualified to interpret and apply the law.
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I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
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I stated at Justice [John] Roberts' hearing, the court's injected itself into many of the political debates of our day.
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Narrow scope of judicial power was the reason that people accepted the idea that the federal courts could have the power of judicial review that is, the ability to decide whether a challenged law comports with the Constitution.
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