Quotes by Rick Santorum

We are seeing it. We are seeing the fabric of this country fall apart, and it's falling apart because of single moms.

It's amazing that so many kids turn out to be fairly normal, considering the weird socialization they get in public schools.

Everybody knows full well my passion about defeating Barack Obama. Over my dead body would I vote for Barack Obama.

CO2 is a pollutant? Tell that to the plants.

Obviously the first thing we need to do is repeal Obamacare. That's one entitlement that we can get rid of. And that's a couple trillion dollars in spending over the next 10 years.

If everyone is exceptional, nobody is exceptional.

Ron Paul may be the wackiest candidate in the GOP field. But for pure, blind stupidity, nobody beats Santorum. In my 20 years in the Senate, I never met a dumber member, which he reminded me of today.

We will never have the elite smart people on our side.

Satan has his sights on the United States of America.

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.

Why? Because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and, therefore, less care that has to be done, because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society.

This is the beauty of Donald Trump, that he goes against the Republican orthodoxy, much of which has been rejected a lot of Republican voters, who, well, would be Republican voters, at least in my state, who I think would otherwise like to vote Republican.

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.

I want to make sure that the American worker has an opportunity to see their wages rise and their incomes increase.

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

Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring, career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

And that is what the perception is by the American left, who hates Christendom.

The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical.

If you look at the big entertainment industry and their pursuit of the bottom line profits in exchange for producing content and distributing that content and marketing that content to inappropriate audiences, that's a problem for me.

But the reason America is a great country, the reason is because our compassion is in our laws. And when we live by those laws and we treat everybody equally under the law, that's when people feel good about being Americans.

The reason Social Security is in big trouble is we don't have enough workers to support the retirees. Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion.

I'm a capitalist, not a corporatist. I'm not someone who believes we should be bailing out corporations whether their auto industries, or banks.

Governor Romney supported the bailout of Wall Street and decided not to support the bailout of Detroit.

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.

Big Business wants cheap labor costs.

The president of the United States is a commander-in-chief, and the president of the United States, you know, executes the laws and tries to motivate the American public to make changes that are necessary. It's not necessarily a CEO type of position.

My position on how to address the Confederate flag is clear. In Florida, we acted, moving the flag from the state grounds to a museum, where it belonged.

Confederate flag it's a symbol of racial hatred.

The most dangerous place for an African-American in this country is in the womb.

NASCAR and the Daytona 500 are about as American as you can get.

I don't think God will continue to bless America if we continue to kill 1.2 million children every year.

Donald Trump is a good businessman. He knows how to put the deal together. And I think he'd be a -- he'll be a very constructive figure in the White House.

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.

The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong.

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.

As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else. It's being drawn to Iraq. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the eye to come back to the United States.

When I say things like 'Marriage should be between one man and one woman,' I'm called a bigot.

We can't nominate such a weak candidate. I'd love to be able to get one-on-one with Gov. Romney and expose the record that would be the weakest record we could possibly put up against Barack Obama.

I don't want to go to a trade war, I want to beat China. I want to go to war with China and make America the most attractive place in the world to do business.

Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.

We went into a recession in 2008 because of gasoline prices. The bubble burst in housing because people couldn't pay their mortgages because of $4 a gallon gasoline.

Thirty-two years after the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life.

If you're a responsible business, you don't let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country.

Running a business is not the same as being president of the United States.

If you're a print shop and you are a gay man, should you be forced to print 'God Hates Fags' for the Westboro Baptist Church because they hold those signs up? Should the government -- and this is really the case here -- should the government force you to do that?

My view is the less the government can do and the more freedom and opportunity you give people, that trusting people and free people and free enterprise -- that America has built the greatest country in the history of the world.

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.

They talk about income inequality. I'm for income inequality.

If the Constitution says that marriage is between a man and woman, then things that are inconsistent with that would be inconsistent with the Constitution.

All the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis, they're not Palestinians. There is no 'Palestinian.' This is Israeli land.

I'm one of the few people up here who actually believes that we need a level playing field when it comes to manufacturing. That means a good tax code, a good regulatory environment, low energy prices, better opportunities for workers to get training.

Newt Gingrich would be a much better president than Barack Obama.

Pick any other Republican in the country. He is the worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama.

Saddam Hussein was not an Islamist. He's not a radical jihadist. He's not a radical Muslim. I mean, he was a -- he was a Baathist. He was a secular -- even though he professed to be a good and devout Muslim.

What Donald Trump is focused on is a policy of trade that looks after the interests of the American worker, not just the overall GDP numbers. And that is what is resonating.

He glosses over and doesn't even tell the truth....Here is a guy who is the ultimate flip-flopper running for president, and he's attacking me for not being principled? That doesn't wash.

We've seen with this president, experience matters. When that phone call comes at three o'clock in the morning, I will be up and ready for the call because I will know what's going on in the world around us.

Obamacare is a failure but you're going to need 60 votes to change preexisting conditions -- other things to make the system work and that's the problem of repealing and replacing, is you can't do it because it's a broken system.

Its amazing that so many kids turn out to be fairly normal, considering the weird socialization they get in public schools.

Well, higher-income people don't have to pay taxes if they don't want to because they can move their money somewhere else, they can move their investments. They can stop investing. They can stop working. They don't need to work. They're higher-income people.

We were put on this Earth as creatures of God to have dominion over the Earth, to use it wisely and steward it wisely, but for our benefit not for the Earth's benefit.

And yet we have brave men and women who are willing to step forward because they know what's at stake. They're willing to sacrifice their lives for this great country. What I'm asking all of you tonight is not to put on a uniform. Put on a bumper sticker.

Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope...plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that.

Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, where it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family.

The left, unfortunately, participates in bullying more than the right does. They say they're tolerant, and they're anything but tolerant of people who disagree with them and support traditional values.

The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.

I thank God that America still has one party that reaches out their hands in love to lift up all of God's children -- born and unborn, and says that each of us has dignity and all of us have the right to live the American Dream.

We shouldn't be putting tariffs on anything. That hurts working men and women in US. What we should be doing is making our manufacturing more competitive.

We need to have a president that's going to pledge, as I have -- I'm going to make America the number-one manufacturer so working men and women can have good paying jobs again in America.

It's not about contraception. It's about economic liberty, it's about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of religion, it's about government control of your lives and it's got to stop!

One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country.

Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that's okay, contraception is okay. It's not okay. It's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.

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.

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?

I think Donald Trump is going to surprise a lot of people.

I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.

I think the Democrats are actually worried he (Obama) may go to Indonesia and bow to more Muslims.

I would say ... that moving jobs overseas is a reality of global competition, ... If you come from Pennsylvania, we've lost a lot of jobs from global competition. I think that's just a truth, if you will.

I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts.