Top 63 Brownback Quotes
#1. It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do ... it's never occurred to [the likes of Senators Brownback and Obama] that they bear a worse stigma than any AIDS patient, being almost universally regarded as blowhards, crooks, dopes, and fools.
Stephen D. Cox
#2. Senator [Sam] Brownback talked about those with disabilities that are destroyed in the womb because of a genetic test that is sometimes wrong. I would put forward that we all have disabilities.
Tom Coburn
#3. Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee and Tom Tancredo - those were the three guys who said they do not believe in evolution. The irony will be on them when their campaigns die off in favor of stronger, fitter campaigns.
Bill Maher
#5. 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.
Sam Brownback
#6. I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.
Sam Brownback
#7. We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.
Sam Brownback
#8. Happiness, or contentment, comes from where we look and what we believe, not from what we have.
Lydia Brownback
#9. Among the most famous of these Supreme Court cases of exercise of political power I believe are the cases of Roe V. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, two 1973 cases based on false statements which created a constitutional right to abortion.
Sam Brownback
#10. 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.
Sam Brownback
#11. 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.
Sam Brownback
#12. When we turn life's little pleasures into remedies for life's troubles, we are setting up idols in our hearts, which actually push God aside.
Lydia Brownback
#13. It is far easier to get divorced from somebody you've been married to for 10 years and have three children by than to fire somebody that's worked for you for one year.
Sam Brownback
#14. The people believed that while the courts would be independent, they would defer to the political branches on policy issues.
Sam Brownback
#15. I stated at Justice [John] Roberts' hearing, the court's injected itself into many of the political debates of our day.
Sam Brownback
#16. 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.
Sam Brownback
#17. I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.
Sam Brownback
#18. I always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins.
Sam Brownback
#19. [Jane] Roe has made it not only possible, but has found it constitutional to kill a whole class of people, simply because of their genetic make-up.
Sam Brownback
#20. You can raise good children in single parent households, and many of you perhaps here today come from that type of environment. It is possible and many do it in heroic situations, but it's much more difficult and the numbers move against us in a broad society.
Sam Brownback
#21. I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.
Sam Brownback
#22. The court's injected itself in the definition of marriage, deciding whether or not human life is worth protecting, permitting government to transfer private property from one person to another, even interpreting the Constitution on the basis of foreign and international laws.
Sam Brownback
#23. I want to note that, historically, the make-up of the court has changed just as elected branches have change.
Sam Brownback
#24. The Supreme Court has also issued and never reversed a number of decisions that are repugnant to the Constitution's vision of human dignity and equality.
Sam Brownback
#25. You can look at founding father Alexander Hamilton nevertheless assuring - assuring - the countrymen in Federalist 78 that the role of the federal courts under the proposed Constitution would be limited.
Sam Brownback
#26. I believe you [Samuel Alito] and others would look and say that the role of the courts is limited and it's not to decide political matters.
Sam Brownback
#27. Children of those who have been incarcerated are five times more likely to go to prison than children of parents who have never been incarcerated. The sins of the father visiting the child.
Sam Brownback
#28. The only way to joy is to interpret our circumstances by God's Word rather than to judge God by our circumstances.
Lydia Brownback
#29. We are at our best when we help the weakest. The weak make us strong.
Sam Brownback
#30. Narrow scope of judicial power was the reason that people accepted the idea that the federal courts could have the power of judicial review; that is, the ability to decide whether a challenged law comports with the Constitution.
Sam Brownback
#31. What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
Sam Brownback
#32. Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children,.
Sam Brownback
#33. Politics are important but your soul lasts forever. So, you know, you make ... decisions on what you think is right or wrong and then you just go forward.
Sam Brownback
#34. I believe, assume the power to decide more political than legal issues in nature, the people naturally focus less on the law and more on the lawyers that are chosen really to administer the law.
Sam Brownback
#36. God is glorified not by calling strong women but by giving His strength to weak women.
Lydia Brownback
#37. 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'.
Sam Brownback
#38. Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
Sam Brownback
#39. I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.
Sam Brownback
#40. We aren't going to choose paths of wisdom if we don't trust the One who has marked out those paths for us. Fear of the Lord is trust in the Lord
Lydia Brownback
#41. My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
Sam Brownback
#42. To kill [children in the womb] makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded.
Sam Brownback
#43. If you get married, you lose all your benefits. That's insane! We should give people bonuses for getting married, and sending signals and talking about it to the society.
Sam Brownback
#44. Most Americans want judges who will stick to interpreting the law rather than making it.
Sam Brownback
#45. I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.
Sam Brownback
#46. 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.
Sam Brownback
#47. I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.
Sam Brownback
#48. [Felix Frankfurter] said courts are not representative bodies. They're not designed to be a good reflex of a democratic society. Their judgment is best informed and, therefore, most dependable within narrow limits.
Sam Brownback
#49. 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.
Sam Brownback
#50. In recent years, even as the court has become an increasingly political body, the Senate is not focused on preserving any perceived ideological balance when Democrat presidents have appointed people to the court.
Sam Brownback
#51. I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
Sam Brownback
#52. Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
Sam Brownback
#53. Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per square inch than at any other time in its life.
Sam Brownback
#54. Seats on the [Court] bench are not reserved for causes or interests. They're given to those who will uphold the rule of law so long as the nominee is well-qualified to interpret and apply the law.
Sam Brownback
#55. The more we soak ourselves in God's Word, the more we will be able to readily lay hold of the wisdom we need for particular circumstances.
Lydia Brownback
#56. We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.
Sam Brownback
#57. 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.
Sam Brownback
#58. I've been around the government system and believe me it's built to spend. You've got to change the system, otherwise it's like asking a cultivator to do what a combine does, it just doesn't fit, it won't get it done. You've got to change the system.
Sam Brownback
#60. It may seem ironic that the judicial branch preserves its legitimacy through refraining from action on political questions. That concept was put forward best by Justice [Felix] Frankfurter, appointed by President [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.
Sam Brownback
#61. Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.
Sam Brownback
#62. History has shown that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did, in fact, dramatically change the balance of the court in many critical areas, such as abortion, the privacy debate expansion and child pornography.
Sam Brownback
#63. The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.
Sam Brownback
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