Quotes from Sam Brownback

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.

Your fight -- our fight -- to end abortion in America will be one of the turning points in the history of the world. Just as when Great Britain ended the slave trade was a world history turning point, this movement to end abortion in America is a world history turning point. We must establish the common thought that all human life -- at all stages -- is sacred.

We're in the most powerful nation in the history of mankind so it's incumbent upon us to do everything we can to anybody that's in a persecuted, genocidal position anywhere in the world.

Good always triumphs over evil, even though it can take a while. Light always overcomes darkness, even though it can seem awfully dark.

There's probably a higher level of Christians being persecuted during the last ten, twenty years than ... throughout human history.

The central Christian thesis is to love. Love God, all your heart, mind, soul and flesh and love your neighbor as yourself -- that's the central thesis. It doesn't say anything about hating people anywhere in there, other than that that's not a good thing. And you're even to pray for your enemy. There have been many of us as Christians who have failed to practice the faith as it's called upon and that has been damaging to the faith and I regret that.

It's not that we think too much about sex, it's that we don't think enough of it.

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.

We must shore up this institution of marriage: The programs like marriage initiatives in the nation's capital, where couples are given community assistance, education, and financial incentives. They need to get married and to stay married. In the battle against poverty we cannot ignore the central role of family structure.

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.

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.

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.

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

I believe in the sanctity of marriage.

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.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.

I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.

Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.

I've served on the International Relations Committee.

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.

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

I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.