We need a message that says pro-family, pro-manufacturing, pro-energy, pro-the little guy in America, because that's who we are as Republicans. We believe in the little guy's ability to rise, but we don't do a very good job of talking about it. Rick Santorum More Quotes by Rick Santorum More Quotes From Rick Santorum I understand why Barack Obama wants to send every kid to college, because of their indoctrination mills, absolutely ... The indoctrination that is going on at the university level is a harm to our country. Rick Santorum collegecountrykids CO2 is a pollutant? Tell that to the plants. Rick Santorum co2plant Higher income people don't have to pay taxes if they don't want to. Rick Santorum incomewantpeople This is the beauty of Donald Trump, that he goes against the Republican orthodoxy, much of which has been rejected a lot of Republican voters, who, well, would be Republican voters, at least in my state, who I think would otherwise like to vote Republican. Rick Santorum orthodoxyvotersthinking The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is. Rick Santorum carbonplantdanger Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it. Rick Santorum decenthumansprinciples [Health reform] will destroy the country [because] in the next year or so [America will have to] dramatically cut the military because we can't pay for it. Rick Santorum cuttingmilitarycountry every issue that we deal with in this country has a moral component to it. And so, to divorce a moral component to the debt burden we're leaving the next generation, the tax structure to how we spend our money in Washington, and how we - you know, how we value human life - I mean, all of those things, to me interrelate. They're not - they're not separate issues. Rick Santorum divorcemeancountry One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a libertarianish right... This whole idea of personal autonomy, well, I don't think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do... Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world... Rick Santorum viewsideasthinking President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob. Rick Santorum presidentcollegeamerica I heard governor Romney here called me an economic lightweight because I wasn't a Wall Street financier like he was. Do you really believe this country wants to elect a Wall Street financier as the president of the United States? Do you think that's the experience that we need? Someone who's going to take and look after as he did his friends on Wall Street and bail them out at the expense of Main Street America. Rick Santorum wallbelievecountry If everyone is exceptional, nobody is exceptional. Rick Santorum exceptionalifs You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone whos just going to be a little different than the person in there. If youre going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk with what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate of the future. Rick Santorum winningopportunitycountry He glosses over and doesn't even tell the truth....Here is a guy who is the ultimate flip-flopper running for president, and he's attacking me for not being principled? That doesn't wash. Rick Santorum guypresidentrunning Is anyone saying same-sex couples can't love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too? Rick Santorum brothermothersex Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope...plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that. Rick Santorum slippery-slopepandoras-boxboxes I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money. Rick Santorum opportunitygivingpeople Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that. That's the reason he's mourned today, because of that struggle that he performed I mean, what he was advocating for was not necessarily the right answer, but he was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people's lives, and Obamacare is front and center in that. Rick Santorum strugglemeancountry The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical. And that is what the perception is by the American Left who hates Christendom... What I'm talking about is onward American soldiers. What we're talking about are core American values. Rick Santorum hatefightingtalking I've had the opportunity to spend some time with Donald Trump. He is - he - as you can imagine, I mean, he's a very engaging man. He's - he puts on an image as a lot of candidates and I think all of us do when we're in front of a microphone that's really tough and combative. Rick Santorum menmeanthinking
