Todd Akin Quotes

#1. Mitt Romney has asked Todd Akin to step down. That's too bad. Todd Akin was the guy to lead the Republican Party into the 16th century.

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#2. Just because somebody makes a mistake doesn't make them useless.

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#3. The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.

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#4. Social Security is a tax.

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#5. In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected.

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#6. I don't know the future.

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#7. I am deeply concerned about America.

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#8. The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide.

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#9. America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.

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#10. As I said, I believe life starts at conception.

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#11. I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.

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#12. It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

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#13. Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.

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#14. I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.

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#15. I don't apologize.

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#16. More freedom means more jobs ... less government and less taxes.

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#17. I stand up for the things I believe in.

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#18. My base will show up in earthquakes.

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#19. You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement.

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#20. I'm a dad and that's pretty important.

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#21. At the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God.

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#22. Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me.

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#23. We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

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#24. You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other law-breaking: Not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant, cheating on taxes, all these kinds of things.

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#25. I think that the thing you have to do is, people have to start being held accountable for their decisions. If somebody's not buying insurance, then they're going to have to be selling their car, or whatever it is to try to help cover that.

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#26. Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived.

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#27. The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.

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#28. Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

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#29. Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

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#30. I'm standing for real freedom.

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#31. By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.

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#32. Now, Social Security through the years, for many many people, has been a terrible investment. It's really a tax, that's all it is. Social Security is a tax.

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#33. I was involved in some peaceful protests.

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#34. I will work with anyone that wants to get America back on track and make sure that the government is the servant and no longer the master.

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#35. I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

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