Rick Santorum: Trending quotes (page 2)

“We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like – the anti-war government nig– uh, the – America was a source for division around the world, that what we were doing was wrong.”

Rick Santorum

2012-03-30
Rick Santorum: another slip of the tongue but was it the 'N-word'?
Paul
Harris
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/mar/30/rick-santorum-slip-n-word
2012-04-03

War , World

“I mean people who don't heed those warnings and then put people at risk as a result of not heeding those warnings […] There may be a need to look at tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out and understand that there are consequences to not leaving.”

Rick Santorum

Interview with KTAE television, September 4, 2005, referring to Hurricane Katrina.
Senator suggests penalties for survivors who stayed in flood zone
Raw Story
2005-09-06
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Senator_suggests_penalties_for_survivors_who_stayed_in_flo_0906.html

People , Penalty , Understanding

“Marriage is what marriage is. Marriage existed before there was a government. It's like, you know, handing up this and saying this glass of water is a glass of beer. Well, you can call it a glass of beer, but it's not a glass of beer. It's a glass of water. And water is what water is. Marriage is what marriage is.”

Rick Santorum

Santorum: Marriage Is Like Water, Not Beer
2011-08-09
Think Progress LGBT
Think Progress
Igor
Volsky
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/08/09/292121/santorum-marriage-is-like-water-not-beer/
2011-08-28

Marriage , Beer , Water

“The reason Social Security is in big trouble is we don't have enough workers to support the retirees. Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion.”

Rick Santorum

WSEZ interview, 2011-03-29, answering a caller's question, quoted in * Aliyah
Shahid
Rick Santorum, GOP presidential hopeful, blames Social Security problems on abortion
2011-03-30
Daily News
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-03-30/news/29381880_1_randall-k-o-bannon-abortion-rick-santorum
2011-04-15

People , Support

“Well, as a matter of fact, I've voted to kill Big Bird in the past. So, I have a record there that I have to disclose. That doesn't mean I don't like Big Bird. I mean, you can kill things and still like them. I mean, maybe to eat them, I don't know.”

Rick Santorum

2012-10-04
Piers Morgan Tonight
CNN
Television, quoted in * 2012-10-05
Rick Santorum: "You can kill things and still like them"
Rachel Weiner
The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2012/10/05/rick-santorum-you-can-kill-things-and-still-like-them/
2014-10-07
Referring to his voting to defund the public television station PBS. Big Bird is a character on Sesame Street, a prominent children's show on that network.

Bird , Past

“What we say is that in order for Mom to be able to go on welfare if she has a child out of wedlock, you have to tell us who the father is. If you don't tell us who the father is, you're not eligible for any welfare benefits, none, not even medical care. You tell us who the father is or you don't receive benefits.”

Rick Santorum

Moms

“I was just reading something last night from the state of California. And that the California universities — it's several, I think it's seven or eight of the California system of universities don't even teach an American history course. It's not even available to be taught. Just to tell you how bad it’s gotten in this country, where we're trying to disconnect the American people from the roots of who we are, so they have an understanding of what America should be.”

Rick Santorum

2012-04-02
Santorum Claims "Seven Or Eight" Univ. California Schools Don't Teach American History
Meenal
Vamburkar
Mediaite
http://www.mediaite.com/online/santorum-claims-seven-or-eight-univ-california-schools-dont-teach-american-history/
2012-04-10
2012-04-03
Rick Santorum Speaks from His Heart - California Colleges
The Colbert Report
Comedy Central
Television
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/411675/april-03-2012/rick-santorum-speaks-from-his-heart---california-colleges
2012-04-10

People , History , Understanding , Thinking

“I want to create every opportunity for women to be able to serve this country, and they do so in an amazing and wonderful way and they're a great addition to the— and they have been for a long time— to the— to the armed services of our country. But I do have concerns about women in front-line combat. I think that could be a very compromising situation, where— where people naturally may do things that may not be in the interest of the mission because of other types of emotions that are involved. And I think that's probably— It already happens, of course, with the camaraderie of men in combat, but it's— I think it would be even more unique if women were in combat, and I think that's not in the best interests of men, women or the mission.”

Rick Santorum

2012-02-10
Santorum Steps In It: Women Shouldn't be in Combat Because of 'Other Types of Emotions'
Tina
Dupuy
Crooks and Liars
http://crooksandliars.com/tina-dupuy/santorum-steps-it-says-women-shouldnt-b
2012-02-21

Women , Men , People , Way

“What we're doing is playing social experimentation with our military right now. And that's tragic.”

Rick Santorum

Fox News presidential debate,
Republican Gay rights group demands apology from Santorum
2011-09-23
Lucy
Madison
Political Hotsheet
CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20110698-503544.html
2012-01-16
https://archive.is/J7zWq
2013-01-02

“I would say any type of sexual activity has absolutely no place in the military. And the fact that they're making a point to include it as a provision within the military that we are going to recognize a group of people and give them a special privilege to — and removing 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' I think tries to inject social policy into the military. And the military's job is to do one thing, and that is to defend our country.”

Rick Santorum

People , Thinking , Country

“The bottom line is that that is legitimately Israeli country. And they have a right to do within their country just like we have a right to do within our country. If they want to negotiate with Israelis, and all the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis, they're not Palestinians. There is no "Palestinian."”

Rick Santorum

This is Israeli land.
Rick Santorum claims everyone who lives in the West Bank is Israeli
2011-11-22
Grace
Kiser
Reuters
http://blogs.reuters.com/political-theater/2011/11/22/rick-santorum-claims-everyone-who-lives-in-the-west-bank-is-israeli/
2012-01-19

People , Country

“I reject that number completely, that people die in America because of lack of health insurance. People die in America because people die in America. And people make poor decisions with respect to their health and their healthcare. And they don’t go to the emergency room or they don’t go to the doctor when they need to.”

Rick Santorum

2011-12-06
Santorum: No One Has Ever Died Because They Didn’t Have Health Care
David
Badash
The New Civil Rights Movement
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/santorum-no-one-has-ever-died-because-they-didnt-have-health-care/politics/2011/12/06/31304

People , Health , Decision

“You're not gonna use the pink ball. We're not gonna let you do that. Not on camera. Friends don't let friends use pink balls.”

Rick Santorum

2012-03-29
Santorum: ‘Friends don't let friends use pink balls’
Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/03/29/454470/santorum-friends-dont-let-friends-use-pink-balls/
2012-04-15
to a boy using a pink bowling ball, at a campaign stop in Wisconsin

“At a time when, over and over again, we were told, "Forget it, you can't win", we were winning. We were winning in a very different way, because we were touching hearts. We were raising issues that, well, frankly, a lot of people didn't want to have raised.”

Rick Santorum

2012-04-10
Santorum in His Own Words
Washington Wire
Wall Street Journal
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/04/10/santorum-in-his-own-words/
2012-04-13

People , Way , Time , Heart

“We say to Mom that you tell us the wrong name, and we'll bring that guy in and we'll do a blood test and that's not Dad, you lose your welfare benefits. You lose your welfare benefits… Not till you tell us another name, but till we find out who Dad is, we establish it.”

Rick Santorum

New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania event, , quoted in * 2012-03-18
Rick Santorum To Single Mothers: Government Paternity Tests Or No Welfare
Jason
Cherkis
The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/08/rick-santorum-single-mothers-unwed-moms_n_1333302.html

Guy , Moms

“I would tell you that my first priority as a president of the United States is to repeal Barack Obama's healthcare plan. I think it's the most dangerous piece of legislation, well, in many generations. It is the reason that I'm running for office. Because I believe Obamacare is a game changer. I believe Obamacare will rob America, the best way I can put it is, rob America of its soul. I say that without any kind of fear of being discredited, I really believe that. That the reason the left for a hundred years has been trying to get a national healthcare plan done is because they realize that once they have you dependent on the government for your health, freedom as we know it in America is forfeit.”

Rick Santorum

Health , Fear , Way , Soul

“I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.”

Rick Santorum

Idea , Country

“Because I believe we are made the way God made man and woman and man and woman come together to have a union to produce children which keeps civilization going and provide the best environment for children to be raised. I think that is something society should value and should give privileged status over a group of people who want to have a relationship together.”

Rick Santorum

on same-sex marriage
Santorum Draws Boos From College Crowd for Opposing Gay Marriage
Julianna
Goldman
2012-01-12
San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/01/10/bloomberg_articlesLXCV300D9L35.DTL#ixzz1jeLR1ECw
2012-01-16
http://web.archive.org/web/20120112222601/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/01/10/bloomberg_articlesLXCV300D9L35.DTL#ixzz1jeLR1ECw
2012-01-12

God , Children , People , Way

“So the gay community said, "He's comparing gay sex to incest and polygamy, how dare he do this," and they have gone out on a, I would argue, jihad against Rick Santorum since then.”

Rick Santorum

Campaign stop in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 2011-08-26, quoted in * Santorum: Gay community on 'jihad' against me for stance on marriage
The Hill
2011-08-29
Justin
Sink
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/178543-santorum-gay-community-on-jihad-against-me-for-stance-on-marriage
2011-09-01

Sex , Communication

“The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical. And that is what the perception is by the American left who hates Christendom.”

Rick Santorum

2011-02-23
Santorum: Left hates 'Christendom'
Politico
Andy
Barr
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/50054.html

Hate , Idea , Fight , Parting