Sam Brownback Quotes

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

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.

I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.

I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.

We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.

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.

I believe in the sanctity of marriage.

It is far easier to get divorced from somebody you've been married to for 10 years and have three children by than to fire somebody that's worked for you for one year.

To kill [children in the womb] makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded.

I believe, assume the power to decide more political than legal issues in nature, the people naturally focus less on the law and more on the lawyers that are chosen really to administer the law.

If you get married, you lose all your benefits. That's insane! We should give people bonuses for getting married, and sending signals and talking about it to the society.

Most Americans want judges who will stick to interpreting the law rather than making it.

[Jane] Roe has made it not only possible, but has found it constitutional to kill a whole class of people, simply because of their genetic make-up.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

I believe you [Samuel Alito] and others would look and say that the role of the courts is limited and it's not to decide political matters.

The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.

The Supreme Court has also issued and never reversed a number of decisions that are repugnant to the Constitution's vision of human dignity and equality.

Children of those who have been incarcerated are five times more likely to go to prison than children of parents who have never been incarcerated. The sins of the father visiting the child.

I stated at Justice [John] Roberts' hearing, the court's injected itself into many of the political debates of our day.

Politics are important but your soul lasts forever. So, you know, you make ... decisions on what you think is right or wrong and then you just go forward.

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.

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.

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 enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative. I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.

Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.

Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children.

We are at our best when we help the weakest. The weak make us strong.

I always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins.

I want to note that, historically, the make-up of the court has changed just as elected branches have change.

The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues.

I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.

I don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education.