Robert Patrick Casey Sr. Quotes

• Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?

  Robert Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Human, Rights

• Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected?

  Robert Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Community, Commonly

• We must make children and families a national priority.

  Robert Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in Children

  Tags in National

• We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.

  Robert Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Women

• Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.

  Robert Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Living, Free

• Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity.

  Robert Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Women

• To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license.

  Robert Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in America, Justice

• The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party’s historic commitment to protecting the powerless.

  Robert Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Wrong, Party

• The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.

  Robert Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Women

• The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.

  Robert Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Freedom, New

• The abortion issue has intersected with my public life from the very beginning.

  Robert Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Public, Beginning, Issue

• Our party has always been the voice of the powerless and the voiceless.

  Robert Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Voice, Party, Powerless

• Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

  Robert Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Human, Political

• My strong personal view, which I believe is shared by millions of Americans, is that our party should make a strong statement in its platform that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which should be protected.

  Robert Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strong, Believe, Child

• Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation’s conscience.

  Robert Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Easy, Nation, Conscience

• Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution.

  Robert Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Choose

• In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.

  Robert Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generation, Issue

• In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis.

  Robert Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Crisis

• If our country is to reach a workable solution to the abortion issue, the Democratic party must be open to and tolerant of opposing views.

  Robert Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Open

• I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus.

  Robert Patrick Casey Sr.

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Come

Robert Patrick Casey Sr. (36)

Birth:	9th January, 1932
Death:	30th May, 2000
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician, Lawyer

About

Robert Patrick "Bob" Casey, Sr. was an American politician from Pennsylvania. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 42nd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1995. He previously served as a state senator and Auditor General of Pennsylvania.

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