Quotes from Sam Brownback

I believe in the sanctity of marriage.

I voted yes for ANWR, and I would support those in other places, environmentally sound.

I love serving in the government. I love serving in the Senate.

I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.

Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.

Every human - especially the most vulnerable, the unborn, the infirm, those ravaged by age and those desperate in despair - should be protected in law, loved, and told repeatedly of their incredible beauty and worth.

The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.

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.

I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.

I'll read anything by a guy who spent 40 years in a cave.

I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.

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.

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and yet our governmental bureaucracies are riddled with it - whether through unnecessary, duplicative, inefficient, outdated, or failed agencies and programs.

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.

I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.

There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.

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

I believe, assume the power to decide more political than legal issues in nature, the people naturally focus less on the law and more on the lawyers that are chosen really to administer the law.

Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

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

Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.

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.

Too often, while well-intentioned, our poverty programs fail the poor. They fail them by keeping them in cycles of dependency.