Sam Brownback
Sam Brownback
Samuel Dale "Sam" Brownbackis an American politician currently serving as Governor of Kansas. A member of the Republican Party, Brownback was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives during the Republican Revolution of 1994, representing Kansas's 2nd congressional district for a single term, before running in a 1996 special election for the Senate seat previously held by Bob Dole. He won that election, and two regular elections following, serving until 2011. He ran for president in 2008, but withdrew...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 September 1956
CityGarnett, KS
CountryUnited States of America
The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.
In recent years, even as the court has become an increasingly political body, the Senate is not focused on preserving any perceived ideological balance when Democrat presidents have appointed people to the court.
I've been around the government system and believe me it's built to spend. You've got to change the system, otherwise it's like asking a cultivator to do what a combine does, it just doesn't fit, it won't get it done. You've got to change the system.
I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.
I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
We are at our best when we help the weakest. The weak make us strong.
Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.
What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
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.
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.
I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.
Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per square inch than at any other time in its life.
My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
I want to note that, historically, the make-up of the court has changed just as elected branches have change.