Quotes from Josh Hawley

If people can't expect their government to be honest and clean, they can't expect anything from it.

We need an attorney general that's going to be an advocate for the state of Missouri and is willing to intervene in the regulatory process and go to court to protect Missourians from over-regulation.

Senator McCaskill - she's been in D.C. forever. She's turned her back on farmers. She's ignored working families.

My first job out of law school was on the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, where Gorsuch is a judge. I observed in the year that I worked at the court what many litigants and commentators have since noted: that Gorsuch possesses an incisive legal mind, writes with skill and wit, and is scrupulously fair.

It's not a secret that we have a crisis in confidence in public institutions in our country.

The swelling epidemic of human trafficking makes a mockery of the law and its protections.

More than 150 years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery is illegal almost everywhere. But it is still not abolished - not even here, in the land of the free. On the contrary, there is a cancer of violence, a modern-day slavery growing in America by the day, in the very places where we live and work. It's called human trafficking.

I am firmly of the view that the Missouri citizens deserve transparent and accountable government, especially in the expenditure of their tax dollars.

We have to protect the rights of every person and group to follow their sincere religious belief peacefully without hurting other people.

People don't have any confidence in Jefferson City. There's incredible anger in the political establishment, and one of the reasons is special interests dominate the Capitol in our state.

I will not let the interests of powerful corporations close our economy or jeopardize consumers.

The Constitution has never treated religion as merely another private opinion that government can order people to keep to themselves.

If you abuse the public trust, we're going to find you, and and we're going to prosecute you.

I said I would be part of the solution in Jefferson City, not part of the problem. And I said I'd take on the culture of corruption.

Through the 1980s and '90s, evangelicals sought to turn back the forces of secularization. Groups like the Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition pressed for laws recognizing Christianity's unique place in American life, including laws that would allow prayer in public schools and Christian displays in public places.

The allegations against Roy Moore are very serious. In the state of Missouri, they are criminal - these are criminal allegations.

American business needs more conscience, not less, whether from religious motivation like Hobby Lobby or from secular intentions.

The federal government does not have the authority to tell landowners and ranchers and farmers that they can't farm and ranch their land because someday an endangered species might live there.

Unfair and deceptive business practices have been illegal in most states for decades. Yet traffickers routinely use what appear to be legitimate businesses - massage parlors, bars, nail salons - as fronts for their illegal exploitation. It's the ultimate business scam.

Contrary to what many secularists allege, the Constitution and Bill of Rights did not 'privatize' religion and quarantine it from the public square.

The Constitution treats religious belief as uniquely special, uniquely central to the dignity of the human person, and, for that reason, beyond the power of the state to control.

As attorney general, I have a duty to defend the laws and constitution of the State of Missouri.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act extends religious liberty to corporations without regard to their for-profit and non-profit status.

The best way to put the federal bureaucracy back on a leash is to make it obey the laws the people write.