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
Against the advice of my wife, I endorsed Arlen Specter. I should have listened to my wife.
I do care about not 99 percent or 95 percent. I care about the very rich and the very poor. I care about 100 percent of America.
I'm someone who believes that making things creates wealth.
I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.
Everybody knows full well my passion about defeating Barack Obama. Over my dead body would I vote for Barack Obama.
The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.
The problem is neutrality ends in poverty, neutrality ends in choices that hurt people's lives. This administration is deliberately telling organizations that are there to help young girls make good choices, not to tell them what the good choice is. That is absolutely unconscionable.
As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across this country.
every issue that we deal with in this country has a moral component to it. And so, to divorce a moral component to the debt burden we're leaving the next generation, the tax structure to how we spend our money in Washington, and how we - you know, how we value human life - I mean, all of those things, to me interrelate. They're not - they're not separate issues.
One of the things that I realize is that if you look at big business, I mean, they - and what they fund and what they do, they don't really - they don't fund the small non-profit community-based organizations that really are out there on the front lines helping people. They fund the big philanthropies. They're safe.
America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world.
Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.
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.
I cleaned toilets and shined shoes.