Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
Richard John "Rick" Santorum, SMOMis an American attorney and Republican Party politician. He served as a United States Senator representing Pennsylvaniaand was the Senate's third-ranking Republican. He ran as a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination, finishing second to the eventual Republican nominee Mitt Romney...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth10 May 1958
CityWinchester, VA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I'll never forget the first time I saw someone who had died. It was my grandfather. And I knelt next to his coffin. And all I could do was eye level was look at his hands. They were enormous hands. And all I could think was, 'Those hands dug freedom for me.'
you leave open the door for a variety of other sexual activities to occur within the home and not be regulated.
We are not cutting health care services to the beneficiaries. We have squeezed some fraud out. We have squeezed providers.
It was wrong, but it was wrong because we just had bad information,
I intend to carefully review the nominee's credentials and assess her qualifications and commitment to the rule of law.
I have six children ages 4-14. And the idea of coming off a race of the intensity that I am engaged in at this point and turning around and running another two-year campaign for president is not something that I believe is in the best interest of my family,
If you leave the money in Washington, folks in Washington will spend it,
In principle, we are all in this together. We are the party in governance.
I'm probably known most by the work I do in Washington on the big issues of the day and I'm criticized sometimes for taking on the big issues of the day like Social Security,
I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts.
If there was any dissension at all, you'd be hearing it from me,
But ... you didn't elect a senator from Pennsylvania to get out in Washington and sit on the sidelines. You wanted us to suit up with the pads on and take on the big issues that confront us not just in Washington but across the globe.
While not having the force and effect of law, report language has a significant impact,