Richard Mourdock Quotes

#1. I believe life is precious; I believe that to the marrow of my bones.

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#2. All of Obama's policies are working against economic growth, not for it, and Republicans ought to be talking about it and they're not. We need to take a stand.

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#3. To all of you who are Republicans of long standing, I hope you appreciate that I always tried to stand for conservative values.

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#4. We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle.

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#5. If not for the Tea Party, the Republican Party would not be coming back to its roots.

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#6. I'm absolutely confident that the God that I worship abhors violence.

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#7. I am a very even-keeled guy.

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#8. It's a beautiful thing at 60 to know who you are.

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#9. I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.

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#10. I believe God controls the universe. I don't believe biology works in an uncontrolled fashion.

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#11. I didn't grow up in politics.

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#12. Even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen.

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#13. The fact is, you never compromise on principles. If people on the far Left, they have a principle to stand by, they should never compromise; those of us on the Right should not either.

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#14. I will always call Darmstadt, Indiana, home.

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#15. People in Indiana like to see their politicians at the county fair or the Rotary Club.

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#16. I always start my discussions with the Tea Party groups with telling them, 'you know I have only three words for you: God. Bless. You.' Because the Tea Party's bringing the Republican party back to a more conservative base.

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#17. I used to dig around the sandbox and pull out pieces of coal and show them to my mother, and she used to say that's how I must have known I was going to be a geologist.

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#18. Let's do away with the Departments of Education, Energy Commerce, Housing and Urban Development.

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#19. I do think the Tea Party position will prevail, and I am often asked: 'What has the Tea Party done and is it even still alive?' People think because there have been no demonstrations with the 'Don't Tread on Me' flag it's gone, but it hasn't.

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#20. Indiana taxpayers, retired Hoosier state policemen and teachers are neither greedy speculators nor unpatriotic. They are, however, secured creditors of Chrysler. They deserve to have their funds protected under the full auspices of the law.

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#21. What I've said about compromise, I hope to build a conservative majority so bipartisanship becomes Democrats joining Republicans to roll back the size of government, reduce the bureaucracy, and get America moving again.

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