Latest Rick Santorum Quotes from Interviews

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• I think you learn more about Donald Trump when you learn more about his wife Melania. She can say things, but it's more how much did you get to know her and believe the kind of person she is, that could be married successfully to him. So once you realize that there's something there, that there's substance and that she's got talents and abilities, you think "this is a very complex woman and not just a pretty face" and you know they have a pretty successful marriage and I think that speaks well of him.

  Rick Santorum

  Believe, Successful, Thinking

  Source: nymag.com

• Obamacare is a failure but you're going to need 60 votes to change preexisting conditions - other things to make the system work and that's the problem of repealing and replacing, is you can't do it because it's a broken system.

  Rick Santorum

  Obamacare, Broken, Needs

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• The Democratic Party has become the party of Bernie Sanders, I mean they are the progressives. That's who control.

  Rick Santorum

  Party, Mean, Democratic

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• I've had the opportunity to spend some time with Donald Trump. He is - he - as you can imagine, I mean, he's a very engaging man. He's - he puts on an image as a lot of candidates and I think all of us do when we're in front of a microphone that's really tough and combative.

  Rick Santorum

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• Donald Trump is a good businessman. He knows how to put the deal together. And I think he'd be a - he'll be a very constructive figure in the White House.

  Rick Santorum

  Thinking, White, House

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• I think Donald Trump is going to surprise a lot of people.

  Rick Santorum

  Thinking, People, Surprise

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• This is the beauty of Donald Trump, that he goes against the Republican orthodoxy, much of which has been rejected a lot of Republican voters, who, well, would be Republican voters, at least in my state, who I think would otherwise like to vote Republican.

  Rick Santorum

  Thinking, Voters, Orthodoxy

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• What Donald Trump is focused on is a policy of trade that looks after the interests of the American worker, not just the overall GDP numbers. And that is what is resonating.

  Rick Santorum

  Gdp, Numbers, Looks

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• 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...

  Rick Santorum

  Believe, Mean, Opportunity

  Rick Santorum during Republican debate at the Milwaukee Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, www.cbsnews.com. November 10, 2015.

• I’m a capitalist, not a corporatist. I’m not someone who believes we should be bailing out corporations whether their auto industries, or banks.

  Rick Santorum

  Believe, Corporations, Should

  Rick Santorum during Republican debate at the Milwaukee Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, time.com. November 11, 2015.

• We need to have a president that's going to pledge, as I have - I'm going to make America the number-one manufacturer so working men and women can have good paying jobs again in America.

  Rick Santorum

  Jobs, Men, America

  "Your Money, Your Vote: The Republican Presidential Debate", www.cnbc.com. October 29, 2015.

• We shouldn't be putting tariffs on anything. That hurts working men and women in US. What we should be doing is making our manufacturing more competitive.

  Rick Santorum

  Hurt, Men, Tariffs

• I grew up in a steel town of Western Pennsylvania, outside of Pittsburgh, and when I announced for president, I announced from the factory floor. When I talk about making America the number one manufacturer again in the world, it's not just talk. When I talk about having the opportunity for people to rise again, it's not just because it polls well.

  Rick Santorum

  Opportunity, Numbers, America

  CNBC Undercard GOP Debate, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2015.

• Prayer and hard work are a pretty good one-two punch to get things done.

  Rick Santorum

  Prayer, Hard Work, Two

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

• When did it become the law of the land that the Supreme Court has the final say on anything? They cannot have the final say on anything. The American people have the final say on anything.

  Rick Santorum

  Law, Land, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope...plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that.

  Rick Santorum

  Pandora's Box, Slippery Slope, Boxes

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.nbcnews.com. July 22, 2015.

• 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.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Mean, Divorce

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

• If everyone is exceptional, nobody is exceptional.

  Rick Santorum

  Exceptional, Ifs

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

• Everybody knows full well my passion about defeating Barack Obama. Over my dead body would I vote for Barack Obama.

  Rick Santorum

  Passion, Body, Vote

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• It's not about contraception. It's about economic liberty, it's about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of religion, it's about government control of your lives and it's got to stop!

  Rick Santorum

  Control Of Your Life, Government, Freedom Of Speech

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• [Confederate flag] it's a symbol of racial hatred.

  Rick Santorum

  Hatred, Flags, Confederate

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I don't think the federal government or federal candidates should be making decisions on everything and opining on everything.

  Rick Santorum

  Thinking, Government, Decision

  Source: www.pbs.org

• My position on how to address the Confederate flag is clear. In Florida, we acted, moving the flag from the state grounds to a museum, where it belonged.

  Rick Santorum

  Moving, Museums, Florida

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think that we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists and focusing on what we do - what we're really good at, which is - which is theology and morality.

  Rick Santorum

  Thinking, Leaving, Church

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".

  Rick Santorum

  African American, Black, Use

  Source: www.foxnews.com