Top 50 Sam Brownback Quotes

Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.

There’s no religious test in our country, and there shouldn’t be. We’re an open, competitive society.

Culture is more important than politics and government.

I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I’ve carried bills concerning Congo. I’ve carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.

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.

I believe in the sanctity of marriage.

I love serving in the government. I love serving in the Senate.

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

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

Federal waste is a grave disservice to hardworking taxpayers across our great nation, and yet our governmental bureaucracies are riddled with it – whether through unnecessary, duplicative, inefficient, outdated, or failed agencies and programs.

I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

Before 9/11, our defense policy was based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights; we will never be an aggressor.

In the aftermath of September 11, it has been made clear to us that our foreign policy can no longer afford to narrowly focus on short-term benefits. For our nation’s long-term security, we must be active in promoting American values abroad through our foreign policy.

I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.

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

I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.

Too often, while well-intentioned, our poverty programs fail the poor. They fail them by keeping them in cycles of dependency.

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.

Instead of getting angry at somebody for opposing you on something, you’re just praying for them. You just pray blessings on them, blessings on their family.

Consider this: The United States held its first presidential election in 1789. It marked the first peaceful transfer of executive power between parties in the fourth presidential election in 1801, and it took another 200 years’ worth of presidential elections before the courts had to settle an election.

There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads around the world and even in our own back yard. You see it in places like Venezuela and Bolivia, stoked in no small part by Cuba, and also in Central Asia, and troubling trends in Russia and China.

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.

A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.

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

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.

The growth in ethanol and biodiesel is something that I have worked on since I was secretary of agriculture in Kansas. I would like to see a lot more progress, because I think there is a real score to be made on this.

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

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

The United States is a low-trade – low-tariff country.

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

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.

Along with Senator Lieberman and others, I introduced the Energy Security Bill to use existing technologies with a variety of tax incentives to reduce our dependence on oil.

I’d just come through cancer in 1995. Which really changed my soul. It really did. It changed me… It made my faith alive – and real. God’s real.

BRAC originated in the 1960s under President Kennedy as the Department of Defense (DOD) had to realign its base structure after World War II and the Korean War. At that time, the DOD was able to close bases without congressional interference, and 60 bases were closed in the 1960s.

My faith makes me willing to do things that may look like there’s going to be a lot of physical difficulty. And you just go ahead and do it because you truly believe it’s the right thing to do.

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.

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.

I strongly support an ‘all-of-the-above’ energy policy that includes additional development of wind, clean coal, and bio-fuels.

The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.

The CARFA Act is about accountability in the federal government: making sure that taxpayers are getting their money’s worth and not being defrauded. This is a bipartisan concept, and it is worthy of broad support across the Congress.

I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.

Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.

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.

My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a ‘postal packin’ grandma’ for a good period of time.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It’s part of my value system.

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’.

No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.

Jon Kyl did a really good job of presenting a case and moving issues. John McCain probably is one of the more effective legislators, getting things on through the process. I always thought, too – and this may seem kind of odd – Richard Shelby was just an effective guy a lot of times at stopping things.

I voted yes for ANWR, and I would support those in other places, environmentally sound.

America’s a faith-based experiment as a country. We should celebrate and invite faith. And our motto is, ‘In God We Trust.’ This isn’t something that divides; this is something that pulls together and lifts us up.