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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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Sam Brownback
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 12
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I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative. I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.
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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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[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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My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
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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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I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.
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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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We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.
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And you can claim whatever you want to of being pro-life or pro- choice, but the right to a abortion is not in the Constitution. The court created it. It created a constitutional right. And these decisions removed a fully appropriate political judgment from the people of the several states and has led to many adverse consequences.
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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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You can look at founding father Alexander Hamilton nevertheless assuring - assuring - the countrymen in Federalist 78 that the role of the federal courts under the proposed Constitution would be limited.
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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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I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
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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 are at our best when we help the weakest. The weak make us strong.
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I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.
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The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.
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History has shown that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did, in fact, dramatically change the balance of the court in many critical areas, such as abortion, the privacy debate expansion and child pornography.
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