Sam Brownback Quotes

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

The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.

One of the best legislative accomplishments I’ve had here on an international basis and on saving lives is the bill we did against human trafficking.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

Let’s create a legal system that can work.

Immigration is a volatile issue, but we’re in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.

I’m a Ronald Reagan conservative, I’m an economic conservative, I’m strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.

I’d pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.

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 think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.

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

I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

I do think there’s a lot more we can do on the life agenda.

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.

I believe in the sanctity of marriage.

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

Everybody will say that they’re not opposed to immigration; they’re opposed to illegal immigration. That’s what I’m saying.

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

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

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.