Quotes from Paul Broun

America has to stand up and decide if we want to be a socialist nation or if we're going to be a free nation.

There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns.

As a physician, I know that human life begins with fertilization, and I remain committed to ending abortion in all stages of pregnancy. I will continue to fight this atrocity on behalf of the unborn, and I hope my colleagues will support me in doing so.

I appeal to people all across the political spectrum.

If 10 percent is good enough for the Lord, it ought to be good enough for Uncle Sam.

When Barack Obama is right, then I'll support him. When he is wrong, I'll fight him.

Obamacare is going to destroy our economy and destroy our freedom.

I don't want to fix Obamacare, I want to get rid of it.

When I was sworn in the Marine Corps in 1964, when I was sworn into Congress, I swore to uphold the Constitution against enemies, both foreign and domestic. We have a lot of domestic enemies of - of the Constitution, those who want to pervert it, those who want to change it.

The Constitution I uphold and defend is the one I carry in my pocket all the time, the U.S. Constitution. I don't know what Constitution that other members of Congress uphold, but it's not this one. I think the only Constitution that Barack Obama upholds is the Soviet constitution, not this one.

I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept.

We know that when law abiding citizens who know how to utilize a firearm have one on their person, it helps prevent crime.

Ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for accused criminals, and it cannot be an excuse for members of Congress.

I condemn all statements - made in sincerity or jest - that threaten or suggest the use of violence against the president of the United States or any other public official. Such rhetoric cannot and will not be tolerated.

We have a tremendous lack of knowledge of how far we have gotten away from the Constitution of the United States. Democrats and Republicans alike have taken us away from the original intent. You see, I believe in this document as our founding fathers intended it.