187 Quotes by Sam Brownback

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    In recent years, even as the court has become an increasingly political body, the Senate is not focused on preserving any perceived ideological balance when Democrat presidents have appointed people to the court.

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    I've been around the government system and believe me it's built to spend. You've got to change the system, otherwise it's like asking a cultivator to do what a combine does, it just doesn't fit, it won't get it done. You've got to change the system.

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    You can look at founding father Alexander Hamilton nevertheless assuring – assuring – the countrymen in Federalist 78 that the role of the federal courts under the proposed Constitution would be limited.

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    It is far easier to get divorced from somebody you’ve been married to for 10 years and have three children by than to fire somebody that’s worked for you for one year.

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    You can raise good children in single parent households, and many of you perhaps here today come from that type of environment. It is possible and many do it in heroic situations, but it’s much more difficult and the numbers move against us in a broad society.

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    If you get married, you lose all your benefits. That’s insane! We should give people bonuses for getting married, and sending signals and talking about it to the society.

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