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Rick Santorum

Richard John "Rick" Santorum (born May 10, 1958) is an American attorney and Republican Party politician.

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There's a large segment of Republican Party who understand that elections aren't wildly fraudulent, and if Vice President loses in a Romney or McCain-type fashion, then there's no room to contest it.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

The people who were supposedly doing the quid pro quo didn't find out until months after, so, how do you have a quid pro quo when no one knows that it's happening ?

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

The Lead with Jake Tapper.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

He gave cover, as you said, to a leader who knew very well what was going on with Otto Warmbier, i am disappointed, to say the least.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I am disappointed, to say the least.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

I would again be honored to do it at some point in time maybe, but at this point it just doesn't, it just doesn't fit for me and my family and so, you know, I guess the answer right now would be no.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 2 years ago Politics

It was as much a surprise to you as it was to me that I saw my picture with her, i couldn't have picked her out of a lineup.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

We're not in an election anymore, and it's not his opponent he's throwing off, i think it's him that he's throwing off.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

In this case, he has no opponent, and who he's hurting is not a rival, he's hurting himself, because he's now the president and it doesn't matter whether he blames Barack Obama or not. People don't care about Barack Obama anymore. They care about one person. They care about the president, and he's the president.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

He spent four years in the United States Senate being frustrated like everybody else that nothing got done and then you can't point to him and say well nothing got done therefore he has no accomplishments.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

It has been an honor. It really has, i hope we have another opportunity, but my guess is that when we come in on Air Force One, we're not going to have these types of deals because we're going to have a country to run.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

It's one thing if you're a profit-making company...it's another thing to be sanctioned by the Republican National Committee, and because of that sanction, you have a responsibility beyond just making money. The RNC did not hold these new channels to the standard that should be required, which is that everybody one of our presidential candidates will be treated with dignity and respect. Period. Everyone. There is no undercard! There is no kids' table! Everybody is treated with respect. Why? Because they are running for the nomination of our party, and we demand it. But they never did.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Not in this room.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago U.S.

I feel better about this year than I did at this time for 2012.

– Rick Santorum

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

Christians are being beheaded and crucified by these savages. People of good conscience who want to protect Christians are not recruiting tools for ISIL.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Congratulations to @TerryBranstad for becoming America's longest serving governor.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

It's a talented field, so it's hard to break through, here's the difference: They know me. They don't know a lot of these other guys.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I would be launching a major offensive against ISIS right now, four bombs a day? Are you serious? That's a public relations war.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I would say to a war-weary country that if we do not begin to take back ground back from ISIS, we will see war visit us here more dramatically and repeatedly, i would be launching a major offensive against ISIS right now.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

No other presidential candidate has been in ISIS magazine -- they know who I am and I know who they are, do we need another young, inexperienced president to come into office at a time when the world is on fire? ... Commander-in-chief is not an entry-level position.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

That's the only way I can put it. ... And people are dying because this president refuses to face the truth.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

The rhetoric and the policy do not match.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

It is, in many respects, a humbling experience... If I didn't love it I wouldn't do it, we're sort of the patron saint of underdog candidates for president. We were the most unlikely of candidates to win and were not in the race until the very end.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Donald Trump is someone who seems to be sort of feeling Donald Trump way through on the issue of national security right now.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We're sort of the patron saint of underdog candidates for president. We were the most unlikely of candidates to win and were not in the race until the very end.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I have no problem with the Russians protecting their security, vladimir Putin is acting very rationally.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Our fight is in Iraq, not in Syria.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

There's no consequence to lying to this president.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I'm for reallocating every dollar that goes to Planned Parenthood and putting them in women's health centers that actually provide more comprehensive services than Planned Parenthood does, there are much more comprehensive women's health centers. Women are probably going to get a more holistic health screening at those places than Planned Parenthood.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

It was a great blessing. He held her and he kissed her and blessed her.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

That was a very special time.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I don't feel it's my obligation every time someone says something I don't agree with to contradict them, and the President's a big boy, he can defend himself and his record and I'm going to go out and talk about the issues that the President and I disagree on and try to defeat him because I think that's the best thing that we can do for the future of our country, my position is clear, the President's position is clear. I don't think the President's a Muslim, but I don't think it's my obligation to go out and repeat that every time someone who feels that way says something.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Ronald Reagan believes in Donald Trump like a Republican. i think these attacks please one person – Hillary Clinton.

– Rick Santorum

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Politics

Because the Supreme Court says something doesn't necessarily mean it's the law of the land, my belief is that when the Supreme Court acts beyond their constitutional authority, then we have every obligation to fight that.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Kim Davis has every right to say this should be a religious accommodation, i think that's something that (the Kentucky) governor can do within his own conscience.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I would advise Kim Davis to follow her conscience.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

My belief is that when the Supreme Court acts beyond their constitutional authority, then we have every obligation to fight that.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Is it pejorative or not? I don't know, i try to call children 'children,' and not anything other than that.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We have to go through a process of enforcing our laws, it's going to certainly put a strain on some families, but they put themselves in that situation and they have to suffer the consequences.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I would urge Congress to change that.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I think the oil field idea is a bad idea, but his idea that the government of Iran and Iraq are in cahoots and working together and causing problems for the United States to be successful is absolutely true, in this case, the substance, I generally agree with Donald Trump.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

In this case, the substance, I generally agree with Donald Trump.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I wrote the partial-birth abortion statute and if you listen to the tapes, and you look at what the procedures are, they are doing just that.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Planned Parenthood from its very beginning was founded by someone who believed it was a eugenesis.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I'm very familiar with the law, Chris, because I passed it, i wrote the partial-birth abortion statute and if you listen to the tapes, and you look at what the procedures are, they are doing just that.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Almost 5,000 people die every day due to AIDS and there are about 7,000 new HIV infections a day, thankfully, there is reason to hope that in our lifetime, we may see the end of AIDS. Let's turn our resolve into action.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

My job as a human being is to treat everybody with dignity or respect — period, stop, full stop, no qualification to that, do I have to agree with their positions on issues or how they see America? Of course not.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

When did it become the law of the land that the Supreme Court has the final say on anything? they do not have the final say on anything. The American people have the final say on everything.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I wish I had never said that ... It was a flippant comment that should not have come out of my mouth. But the substance of what I said -- which is what I referred to -- I stand by that ... I wish I had not said it in the flippant term that I did. And I know people were offended by it and I wish I hadn't said it.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Spouses matter, when your spouse is not in sync with you — particularly on cultural issues, moral issues — [ you ] tend not to be as active on those issues.

– Rick Santorum

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

I know this will be termed somehow as anti-Hispanic or anti-immigrant, but I would just say that immigration policies should be policies that serve the interest of the American public.

– Rick Santorum

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Politics

I'm not a South Carolinian, this is a decision that needs to be made here in South Carolina.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

It's obviously a crime of hate. Again, we don't know the rationale, but what other rationale could there be? You're sort of lost that somebody could walk into a Bible study in a church and indiscriminately kill people, this is one of those situations where you just have to take a step back and say we — you know, you talk about the importance of prayer in this time and we're now seeing assaults on our religious liberty we've never seen before. It's a time for deeper reflection beyond this horrible situation.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

All the predictions that were made 15 years ago, none of them have come true, so all of this certainty -- this is what bothers me about this debate.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

My job as a human being is to treat everybody with dignity or respect -- period, stop, full stop, no qualification to that, do I have to agree with their positions on issues or how they see America? Of course not.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Clearly the earth has warmed, i do have questions about what role man plays in this warming. I think there are a lot of folks who do question that.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I think you elect the person to be president, we've had bachelors before in the White House.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I do have questions about what role man plays in this warming. I think there are a lot of folks who do question that.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We feel really good that if you go to a town with 350 people, if you get four, five, that's actually not a bad percentage of the folks in town.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We have experience that nobody has on national security. That's something that's critically important.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I was sickened by it, just sickened by it, i pray for those girls, in particular. To have gone through that is just hard to think about.

– Rick Santorum

Found on Reuters 5 years ago U.S.

I would expect to hear that from maybe Bernie Sanders, i don't expect to hear that from somebody running for the Republican nomination.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

As middle America is hollowing out, we can't sit idly by as big government politicians make it harder for our workers and then turn around and blame them for losing jobs overseas. American families don't need another president tied to big government or big money.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

If you’re a United States senator, if you’re a governor, if you’re a woman who ran a Fortune 500 company, and you’re running a legitimate campaign for president, then you should have a right to be on stage with everybody else.

– Rick Santorum

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

I don't know how that was a hard question, i've been asked that question a hundred times and the answer is pretty clear. The information was not correct...I think everybody accepts that now.

– Rick Santorum

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Most Read Articles

It was a great campaign last time, we were clearly the underdog, and we're starting out looking at this race and we'd be in the same position so we're very comfortable there.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

On that date, we're going to make an announcement on our plans.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

We need a message that says pro-family, pro-manufacturing, pro-energy, pro-the little guy in America, because that's who we are as Republicans. We believe in the little guy's ability to rise, but we don't do a very good job of talking about it.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

This is a home away from home.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I think if you compare it to President Obama's national security policy of backing off and giving people room to spread terrorism, which they've done, that weakness begets more aggressive activity, and I think that's clearly what happened here.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Felony records (are) making it very difficult for folks to get jobs coming back out of prisons. It is a serious problem.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

I've been very very open to the idea that we need to look at ways in which we can deal with this incarceration rate revolving around drug crimes.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

That would be something that would be a violation of my faith.

– Rick Santorum

Found on FOX News 6 years ago Politics

Unlike others who have been out there talking.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

Let's revitalize the conservative movement within the Republican Party as one voice, this is Rick Santorum, thank you for all the work you do and your dedication to our Republican Party.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

I learned my lesson from 'No Child Left Behind,' so when Common Core came around it was easy, I said, 'no,'.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

Some Muslims...[have] sat quietly by as the Islamic State uses brutal violence that is not antithetical to Islam and only objects on tactics.

– Rick Santorum

Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

We need less Common Core and more common sense.

– Rick Santorum

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

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