Rick Santorum Quotes

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• I understand why Barack Obama wants to send every kid to college, because of their indoctrination mills, absolutely ... The indoctrination that is going on at the university level is a harm to our country.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Kids, College

  "Santorum: Obama wants to 'indoctrinate' students by boosting college enrollment". www.cbsnews.com. February 23, 2012.

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• CO2 is a pollutant? Tell that to the plants.

  Rick Santorum

  Plant, Co2

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• Higher income people don't have to pay taxes if they don't want to.

  Rick Santorum

  People, Income, Want

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• I don't think the federal government or federal candidates should be making decisions on everything and opining on everything.

  Rick Santorum

  Thinking, Government, Decision

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is.

  Rick Santorum

  Plant, Danger, Carbon

  "Santorum Denies Global Warming" by Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. March 15, 2012.

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• Marriage is what marriage is... It’s like going out and saying, ‘That tree is a car.’ Well, the tree’s not a car. A tree’s a tree. Marriage is marriage.

  Rick Santorum

  Car, Tree, Going Out

  "Daily Times Herald Q&A: Santorum: Gay marriage threatens religious freedom". Interview with Douglas Burns, carrollspaper.com. August 25, 2011.

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

  Rick Santorum

  Principles, Decent, Humans

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• When did it become the law of the land that the Supreme Court has the final say on anything? They cannot have the final say on anything. The American people have the final say on anything.

  Rick Santorum

  Law, Land, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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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.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Military, Cutting

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• President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.

  Rick Santorum

  College, America, President

  "Romney Motors To Victories, Santorum Slides Back". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 29, 2012.

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• While the Obama Department of Justice seems to favor pornographers over children and families, that will change under a Satorum Administration. I will ban all pornography. Especially gay pornography. Gay pornography is the reason people choose the gay lifestyle or what I call the deathstyle. If we got rid of that, homosexuality would be gone within a matter of months. This is one of only a few things I see eye to eye on with the Taliban.

  Rick Santorum

  Children, Eye, Gay

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• Big Business wants cheap labor costs.

  Rick Santorum

  Cost, Want, Cheap Labor

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone whos just going to be a little different than the person in there. If youre going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk with what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate of the future.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Winning, Opportunity

  "GOP candidates focus on Louisiana" by John Helton, www.cnn.com. March 24, 2012.

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• I heard governor Romney here called me an economic lightweight because I wasn't a Wall Street financier like he was. Do you really believe this country wants to elect a Wall Street financier as the president of the United States? Do you think that's the experience that we need? Someone who's going to take and look after as he did his friends on Wall Street and bail them out at the expense of Main Street America.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Wall, Believe

  "Scrambling Santorum lashes out at Romney in pivotal state of Illinois" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2012.

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• Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It's something that reflects nature and reflects God and God's will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it's beneficial for society.

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  Government, World, Reason

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• I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake and gets an issue wrong.

  Rick Santorum

  Mistake, Issues, Trying

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a libertarianish right... This whole idea of personal autonomy, well, I don't think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do... Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world...

  Rick Santorum

  Thinking, Views, Ideas

  "A Win-Win Election" by James Taranto, www.wsj.com. January 4, 2012.

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• Is anyone saying same-sex couples can't love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?

  Rick Santorum

  Mother, Brother, Sex

  "Santorum Mocks Gay Marriage: ‘I Love My Brother. Should We Call This Relationship Marriage Too?’". Santorum's Philadelphia Inquirer column, thinkprogress.org. May 22, 2008.

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• Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition.

  Rick Santorum

  Strong, Pride, Vanity

  "Rick Santorum defends Satan speech - by comparing himself to Ronald Reagan" by Toby Harnden, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 22, 2012.

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• I grew up in a steel town of Western Pennsylvania, outside of Pittsburgh, and when I announced for president, I announced from the factory floor. When I talk about making America the number one manufacturer again in the world, it's not just talk. When I talk about having the opportunity for people to rise again, it's not just because it polls well.

  Rick Santorum

  Opportunity, Numbers, America

  CNBC Undercard GOP Debate, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2015.

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• Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up.

  Rick Santorum

  Opportunity, Careers, Political

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• Satan has his sights on the United States of America.

  Rick Santorum

  Sight, America, United States

  "Rick Santorum defends Satan speech - by comparing himself to Ronald Reagan" by Toby Harnden, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 22, 2012.

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• I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.

  Rick Santorum

  Opportunity, People, Giving

  "Anderson Cooper 360°", transcripts.cnn.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Believe, Ideas

  Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. February 26, 2012.

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• I am not a libertarian, and I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement.

  Rick Santorum

  Party, Fighting, Movement

  "Santorum Is Severely Wrong" by Gene Healy, reason.com. February 14, 2012.

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