10 Quotes & Sayings By Rick Santorum

Rick Santorum was the former governor of Pennsylvania and a two-time candidate for President of the United States. He is a member of the Republican Party and was elected to the Senate in 1994. He has represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate and served as a United States Senator from January 3, 1995, to January 3, 2007. He was defeated in his 2006 reelection bid by Democrat Bob Casey, Jr., who took office on January 3, 2007.

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In some mysterious way, in all his brokenness, he reveals to us our own brokenness, our difficulties in loving, our barriers and hardness of heart. If he is so broken and so hurt and yet is still such a source of life, then I, too, am allowed to look at my own brokenness and to trust that I, too, can give life to others. I do not have to pretend that I am better than others and that I have to win in all the competitions. It’s okay to be myself, just as I am, in my uniqueness. That, of course, is a very healing and liberating experience. I am allowed to be myself, with all my psychological and physical wounds, with all my limitations but with all my gifts too. And I can trust that I am loved just as I am, and that I, too, can love and grow. . Rick Santorum
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The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the more the wheels of capitalism work better because there's trust in the marketplace. Business ethics is not a joke. And, in fact, I think most businesses that I've dealt with encourage exactly that type of behavior. Rick Santorum
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It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that if Americans do three things, they can avoid poverty. Three things. Work, graduate from high school, and get married before you have children. Rick Santorum
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Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them. Rick Santorum
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Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships. Rick Santorum
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In 2006 it was a horrible election year, and, you know, I lost. But I lost because I continued to be a constant conservative, and the last six years I was someone who was a national figure in the sense that I was the third ranking Republican in leadership and I had just run President Bush's campaign in Pennsylvania. Rick Santorum
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There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership. Rick Santorum
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I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now. Rick Santorum
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You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies. Rick Santorum