Sam Brownback

“I voted yes for ANWR, and I would support those in other places, environmentally sound.”

“I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.”

“I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.”

“My faith makes me willing to do things that may look like there's going to be a lot of physical difficulty. And you just go ahead and do it because you truly believe it's the right thing to do.”

“I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.”

“As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.”

“I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.”

“I don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education.”

“The growth in ethanol and biodiesel is something that I have worked on since I was secretary of agriculture in Kansas. I would like to see a lot more progress, because I think there is a real score to be made on this.”

“Many of Reagan's listeners thought he was dreaming. But Reagan had faith in freedom. He knew that communism, although militarily powerful, was ideologically dead. He knew what our Founders knew: that, in a truly legitimate government, power does not come out of the barrel of a gun, but only from the consent of the people.”

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

“I strongly support an 'all-of-the-above' energy policy that includes additional development of wind, clean coal, and bio-fuels.”

“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.”

“We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.”

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

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

“We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.”

“Every human - especially the most vulnerable, the unborn, the infirm, those ravaged by age and those desperate in despair - should be protected in law, loved, and told repeatedly of their incredible beauty and worth.”

“I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.”