This country can be better than it is today, and I intend to make it better, |
Today I'm withdrawing from the contest for the Republican presidential nomination, ... I do that feeling good about the effort that has been made and the debate that has been set. |
Twenty-six years ago the highest court in this land did an incredible thing. They issued a Supreme Court decision that really boils down to one simple and profoundly evil idea: They said that our unborn children have no rights that the rest of us are bound to respect, ... And when they made that decision they unleashed on America an unbelievable event that has undermined who we are and what we believe. |
Up until now, the election really has been about how much money one guy's raised and another guy's inherited, ... Now, for the election to mean something, it ought to be about the issues. These are serious differences. |
We are looking forward to a vibrant competition among politicians for these voters. No one owns them. |
We're not going to find out anything more, |
We're right in the middle of a horrible event when people are turning to God. They're going to find it very hard to get people to vote for the sort of things they're in favor of. |
What I'm hearing right now from the governor is waffling on the one issue that can clearly explain compassionate conservatism, ... If compassionate conservative means anything, it has to mean do anything we can to stop the loss of 1.5 million unborn children every year. |
What I'm hearing right now from the governor is waffling on the one issue that can clearly explain compassionate conservatism. If compassionate conservative means anything, it has to mean do anything we can to stop the loss of 1.5 million unborn children every year. |
When I'm in the White House, you will have a reliable friend for home schooling sitting in the Oval Office, |
When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens. |
Why is it that today we had to mark for the 27th time the destruction of one-and-a-half million children? |
Will you pledge to preserve the Ronald Reagan plank on life in the Republican party platform? Will you finally say you will enforce a litmus test for judicial nominees? Will you vow to pick a pro-life running mate? |
With so much at stake, to many of us it seems ill-advised to nominate somebody that we're then told we should have faith in, when there isn't any evidence of intellectual rigor being applied to these contentious issues. There are probably seven to eight names that have been looked to, have written wonderful decisions that are strong intellectually, compelling in their presentation. They are the kind of people you want to look to if you want to try to move the legal culture in America. |
You are not called by God to be a Republican, ... You were called on by God to be a Christian citizen. |