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
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Certainly from the ????standpoint of a Republican, it’s a winner. Republicans will come out ahead in Pennsylvania in every election. The way Democrats win, they have two big cities with huge concentrations of voters — and then overwhelm the rest of the state. All of a sudden, a Republican can win — and would probably routinely win — all but three or four congressional districts in Pennsylvania. It would turn it from a state Democrats rely on, as part of the base, to a state that they’re gonna lose under almost any scenario.
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The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families.
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Prayer and hard work are a pretty good one-two punch to get things done.
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Thirty-two years after the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life.
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You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies.
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The administration I think has been very forthright...I think they had the best information that they thought was reliable at the time the president said it.
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I intend to carefully review the nominee's credentials and assess her qualifications and commitment to the rule of law.
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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,
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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,
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I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts.
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take affirmative action to identify and permanently locate an optimum number of C-130 aircraft as a detachment to the Pittsburgh Air Reserve Center.
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They'll go to any extent to try to avoid ... any discussion about shrinking the size of government. Being more responsible with the taxpayers' dollars is just so painful that they had to go into private session to recoup and come out again hopefully soon so we can get back to the business at hand,
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critical infrastructure needs are vital to Pennsylvania's economy and homeland security.
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We see it day in, day out around here. There is no agenda, there are no solutions to problems, there's no trying to get our fiscal house in order. Whatever it is, whatever the issue is, it just keeps snapping back. This, I understand, was particularly painful - talking about shrinking this government and doing ... less with more,