Quotes by Sam Brownback - Page 3

One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Code
Free Will
Greatest Gifts
Liberty
Bloom
Gifts
To Live By
We Cannot
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Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Granted
Easily
Fought
How Far
Owe
Note
Reminded
Take For Granted
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The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Founding
Notion
Trusted
Fathers
Founding Fathers
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Narrow scope of judicial power was the reason that people accepted the idea that the federal courts could have the power of judicial review; that is, the ability to decide whether a challenged law comports with the Constitution.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Ideas
Law
People
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Among the most famous of these Supreme Court cases of exercise of political power I believe are the cases of Roe V. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, two 1973 cases based on false statements which created a constitutional right to abortion.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Believe
Exercise
Two
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The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Accountability
Bipartisan
Federal Government
Taxpayers
Worthy
Money Government Support
Broad
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Frankly, one of the problems we have in the country is we're not forming enough families. And that is hurting our economic work, and it's hurting our economic projections, because the best place for a child is within a strong family unit.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Family Unit
Best Family Work
Forming
Frankly
Hurting
One Of The Problems
Unit
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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 / Governor Of Kansas
Ironic
Justice
Political
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Federal waste is a grave disservice to hardworking taxpayers across our great nation, and yet our governmental bureaucracies are riddled with it - whether through unnecessary, duplicative, inefficient, outdated, or failed agencies and programs.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Disservice
Hardworking
Outdated
Unnecessary
Waste
Agencies
Failed
Grave
Inefficient
Programs
Riddled
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I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Farming
Moved On
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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 / Governor Of Kansas
Government
Believe
Doe
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Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Immigration
Current
Volatile
Worst Thing
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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.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Children
Moving
Numbers
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In the aftermath of September 11, it has been made clear to us that our foreign policy can no longer afford to narrowly focus on short-term benefits. For our nation's long-term security, we must be active in promoting American values abroad through our foreign policy.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Active
Aftermath
American Values
Foreign Policy
Long Term
September
Short Term
Abroad
Afford
Narrowly
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Friendship
Concern
Military Force
Preventing
Taiwan
Effectively
Passed
Political System
Relations
Revolutionize
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The court's injected itself in the definition of marriage, deciding whether or not human life is worth protecting, permitting government to transfer private property from one person to another, even interpreting the Constitution on the basis of foreign and international laws.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Government
Definitions
Law
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BRAC originated in the 1960s under President Kennedy as the Department of Defense (DOD) had to realign its base structure after World War II and the Korean War. At that time, the DOD was able to close bases without congressional interference, and 60 bases were closed in the 1960s.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
War
Bases
Defense
Department
Interference
President
President Kennedy
Structure
World War Ii
Time War World
Base
War Time World
Close
Congressional
Originated
World War
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I still have a lot of judgmentalism in me, where I'd see somebody, and I just would, you know, I disagree with this person, and you kind of automatically cast them away. And even though you don't do anything physically, you don't say anything, but people get a real sense of your heart.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Disagree
Heart Your Me
Heart Me People
Physically
Automatically
Get A Real
Real Sense
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There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads around the world and even in our own back yard. You see it in places like Venezuela and Bolivia, stoked in no small part by Cuba, and also in Central Asia, and troubling trends in Russia and China.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Asia
Bolivia
Cuba
Disturbing
Reincarnation
Russia
Socialist
Venezuela
Central
Dictatorships
Heads
Nationalist
Raising
Small Part
Stoked
Troubling
Yard
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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 / Governor Of Kansas
Believe
Country
Heart
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Jon Kyl did a really good job of presenting a case and moving issues. John McCain probably is one of the more effective legislators, getting things on through the process. I always thought, too - and this may seem kind of odd - Richard Shelby was just an effective guy a lot of times at stopping things.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Good Job
Legislators
Mccain
Odd
Presenting
Stopping
Jon
Good May Always
Effective
Richard
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Consider this: The United States held its first presidential election in 1789. It marked the first peaceful transfer of executive power between parties in the fourth presidential election in 1801, and it took another 200 years' worth of presidential elections before the courts had to settle an election.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Election
Executive Power
Fourth
Peaceful
Presidential
Presidential Election
Courts
Executive
Held
Marked
Parties
Settle
Transfer
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Many of Reagan's listeners thought he was dreaming. But Reagan had faith in freedom. He knew that communism, although militarily powerful, was ideologically dead. He knew what our Founders knew: that, in a truly legitimate government, power does not come out of the barrel of a gun, but only from the consent of the people.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Communism
Consent
Founders
Gun
Listeners
Barrel
Dreaming
Government Power
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Independence
Declaration
Stem
Unlimited
Enshrined
Fathers
Forth
Founding Fathers
Intractable
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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 / Governor Of Kansas
Choices
People
Pro Life
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I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Appropriate
Circumstances
Freedom Of Religion
Any Circumstances
Freedom From
Good Thing
Impose
Promote
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I do think the Obama agenda is the furthest left agenda we've seen since probably LBJ and the Great Society. And the differences have been that instead of him trying to go center-left, he's gone - in my estimation - more left. He's shown the country a much more aggressive liberal, more European style agenda, and that's on a center-right country.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Aggressive
Differences
Estimation
Great Society
Agenda
Furthest
Liberal
Shown
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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 / Governor Of Kansas
America
Children
Years
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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 / Governor Of Kansas
Beautiful
Believe
Children
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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 / Governor Of Kansas
Christian
Thinking
Years
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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 / Governor Of Kansas
Integrity
Swings
White
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