Sam Brownback Quotes

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Sam Brownback

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 12, 1956

This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.

Sam Brownback

Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.

Sam Brownback

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.

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I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.

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What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

Sam Brownback

Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.

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I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

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I always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins.

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

Sam Brownback

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

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I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.

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I believe in the sanctity of marriage.

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I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.

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I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.

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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

Sam Brownback

I'd just come through cancer in 1995. Which really changed my soul. It really did. It changed me... It made my faith alive - and real. God's real.

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My faith makes me willing to do things that may look like there's going to be a lot of physical difficulty. And you just go ahead and do it because you truly believe it's the right thing to do.

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I strongly support an 'all-of-the-above' energy policy that includes additional development of wind, clean coal, and bio-fuels.

Sam Brownback

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.

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My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.

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