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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.

Sam Brownback

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Sam Brownback
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 12
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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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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 stated at Justice [John] Roberts' hearing, the court's injected itself into many of the political debates of our day.
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To kill [children in the womb] makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded.
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We are at our best when we help the weakest. The weak make us strong.
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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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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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[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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[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 always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins.
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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 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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My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
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Most Americans want judges who will stick to interpreting the law rather than making it.
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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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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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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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We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
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