Sam Brownback Quotes

"A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it."

"It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet."

"I support strongly the expansion of nuclear power because that is one of the key ways of getting electricity generated and reducing carbon dioxide emissions."

"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."

"Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care."

"I've served on the International Relations Committee."

"I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration."

"Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability."

"I don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education."

"We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad."

"One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will."

"My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer."

"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."

"I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty."

"Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted."

"I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal."

"At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman."

"As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'."

"We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq."

"I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about."

"None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act."

"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."

"Let's create a legal system that can work."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy."

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