Sam Brownback Quotes - Page 2

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• I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

  Sam Brownback

  Ted Kennedy, Enjoyed

  "The Exit Interviews: Sen. Sam Brownback". Interview with Ken Strickland, www.nbcnews.com. September 23, 2010.

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• 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.

  Sam Brownback

  Rights, Numbers, Issues

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• 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.

  Sam Brownback

  Brother, Growing Up, Fishing

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• 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.

  Sam Brownback

  Numbers, Decision, Vision

  Sam Brownback's speech at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• 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.

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  Intellectual, May, Secular

  "Get to Know Sen. Sam Brownback" by Jared Wiener, abcnews.go.com. October 18, 2007.

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• 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.

  Sam Brownback

  Country, Children, Home

  "Get to Know Sen. Sam Brownback" by Jared Wiener, abcnews.go.com. October 18, 2007.

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

  Sam Brownback

  Thinking, Agendas, Can Do

  Interview with Tom Bevan, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 12, 2007.

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• It may seem ironic that the judicial branch preserves its legitimacy through refraining from action on political questions. That concept was put forward best by Justice [Felix] Frankfurter, appointed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

  Sam Brownback

  Justice, Political, Ironic

  "U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court". www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• 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.

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  Religious, Government, Hands

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• 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.

  Sam Brownback

  Believe, Government, Doe

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• 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.

  Sam Brownback

  Thinking, Decision, Forever

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

  Sam Brownback

  Justice, Political, Hearing

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• 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.

  Sam Brownback

  Children, Father, Parent

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• You can raise good children in single parent households, and many of you perhaps here today come from that type of environment. It is possible and many do it in heroic situations, but it's much more difficult and the numbers move against us in a broad society.

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  Children, Moving, Numbers

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

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  Jobs, President, Needs

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• As I noted to my colleagues in the Roberts' hearings, in a year between 80 percent to 90 percent of the children in America diagnosed with Down's Syndrome will be killed in the womb simply because they have a positive genetic test which can be wrong, and is often wrong, but they would have a positive genetic test for Down's Syndrome and they will be killed.America is poorer because of such a policy.

  Sam Brownback

  Children, Years, America

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Sam Brownback

  Moving, Book, People

  "The Exit Interviews: Sen. Sam Brownback". Interview with Ken Strickland, www.nbcnews.com. September 13, 2010.

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

  Sam Brownback

  Strong, Helping, Weak

  Sam Brownback's speech at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• And you can claim whatever you want to of being pro-life or pro- choice, but the right to a abortion is not in the Constitution. The court created it. It created a constitutional right. And these decisions removed a fully appropriate political judgment from the people of the several states and has led to many adverse consequences.

  Sam Brownback

  People, Choices, Pro Life

  "U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court". www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• [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.

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  Class, People, Made

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• History has shown that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did, in fact, dramatically change the balance of the court in many critical areas, such as abortion, the privacy debate expansion and child pornography.

  Sam Brownback

  Children, Justice, Abortion

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When Ruth Bader Ginsburg came in front of the Senate and was approved 96-3 to be on the Supreme Court to replace conservative justice Byron White. This is in 1993.Now, Justice Ginsburg, it was noted earlier, was a general counsel for the ACLU, certainly a liberal group. It was abundantly clear during the confirmation hearing that Ginsburg would swing the balance of the court to the left.But because President [Bill] Clinton won the election and because Justice Ginsburg clearly had the intellectual ability and integrity to serve on the court, she was confirmed.

  Sam Brownback

  Integrity, Swings, White

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• 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.

  Sam Brownback

  Years, People, Political

  Sam Brownback's speech at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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

  Sam Brownback

  Branches, Want, Notes

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• 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.

  Sam Brownback

  Law, Long, Benches

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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