Sam Brownback Quotes

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Sam Brownback

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 12, 1956

I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing.

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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.

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

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

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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.

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I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.

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I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.

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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.

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

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My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time.

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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.

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No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.

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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.

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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.

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Kansas is great - and great for America, when, more and more, we honor every human life everywhere.

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America's a faith-based experiment as a country. We should celebrate and invite faith. And our motto is, 'In God We Trust.' This isn't something that divides; this is something that pulls together and lifts us up.

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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.

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I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.

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I've served on the International Relations Committee.

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