Sam Brownback famous quotes

I really believe, in my heart and soul, that if we would rebuild and strengthen the family structure in the country, you'd start to really deal with a number of the most difficult problems we're having in the country today, in poverty, education, and in crime, but we've broken the family structure up.
-- Sam Brownback

#Country #Believe #Heart

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.
-- Sam Brownback

#Talking #Giving #People

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.
-- Sam Brownback

#Children #Years #Fire

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.
-- Sam Brownback

#Baby #Children #Pain

At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
-- Sam Brownback

#Men #Thinking #Needs

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

#Thinking #Agendas

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 #Kids

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

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

#Immigration #Illegal #Illegal Immigration

I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
-- Sam Brownback

#Believe #I Believe #Sanctity

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

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

#Dad #My Dad #Farmers

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 #Asking

Let's create a legal system that can work.
-- Sam Brownback

#Legal System

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

#Jobs #President #Needs

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.
-- Sam Brownback

#Religious #Hands #Government

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

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

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.
-- Sam Brownback

#Children #Moving #Numbers

I believe that the core battle of our day is the battle to defend the inherent dignity of each and every person, the inherent beauty of each and every soul to be respected and treated as beautiful, unique, and sacred child of a loving God. No matter where they are, no matter what they look like, no matter what their status, each is noble and should be treated as such. The beauty of the individual is truth and we know it in our hearts.
-- Sam Brownback

#Beautiful #Children #Believe

The historical relationship between Christians and Jews for most of the two thousand years of Christianity has not been good and it's been mostly persecution by Christians of Jews - not all the time, not every place, but mostly it's been that. I think that's just a terribly regretful thing. I don't see it anywhere in the Scriptures that I read, that Christians are to persecute Jews. I think it's been quite damaging. I think it's been a bad witness.
-- Sam Brownback

#Christian #Thinking #Years

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

#Children #Games #Common Sense

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.
-- Sam Brownback

#Strong #Military #Hard Work

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

#Thinking #Knitting #People

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

#Numbers #Issues #Rights

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

#Party #Thinking #Winning

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.
-- Sam Brownback

#Intellectual #May #Secular

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

#Rights #Democracy #Steps

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

#Iraq #Aggressive #Syria

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'.
-- Sam Brownback

#Eugenics #Giving #Progress

I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.
-- Sam Brownback

#Ted Kennedy