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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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Sam Brownback
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 12
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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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Among the most famous of these Supreme Court cases of exercise of political power I believe are the cases of Roe V. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, two 1973 cases based on false statements which created a constitutional right to abortion.
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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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I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.
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Most Americans want judges who will stick to interpreting the law rather than making it.
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The court's injected itself in the definition of marriage, deciding whether or not human life is worth protecting, permitting government to transfer private property from one person to another, even interpreting the Constitution on the basis of foreign and international laws.
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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.
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We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.
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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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[Jane] Roe has made it not only possible, but has found it constitutional to kill a whole class of people, simply because of their genetic make-up.
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The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.
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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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I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
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We are at our best when we help the weakest. The weak make us strong.
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I always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins.
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