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Sam Brownback
American
Politician
Born:
Sep 12
,
1956
Faith
Government
Great
People
Think
You
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My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
Sam Brownback
Wanted
Farmer
Dad
Too often, while well-intentioned, our poverty programs fail the poor. They fail them by keeping them in cycles of dependency.
Sam Brownback
Poverty
Too
Programs
Our
Fail
Well-Intentioned
Often
Dependency
While
Them
Poor
Cycles
Keeping
The right to keep and bear arms is a right that Kansans hold dear. The people of Kansas have repeatedly and overwhelmingly reaffirmed their commitment to protecting this fundamental right.
Sam Brownback
Commitment
People
Bear
Protecting
Arms
Dear
Repeatedly
Hold
Kansas
Keep
Fundamental
Fundamental Right
Right
You can raise a good child in a single-parent family, but it's much more difficult.
Sam Brownback
Good
Family
You
Difficult
More
Child
Much
Raise
I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
Sam Brownback
Disagree
Unions
United Nations
Think
States
Support
Governed
Governing
Itself
North
North American
American
Nations
Being
Should
Union
Multilateral
United
United States
Fundamentally
I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.
Sam Brownback
Rights
Matters
Human Rights
United Nations
Think
Harmful
Respects
Weak
Out
Has-Been
Carry
Able
Institution
Like
Been
Discuss
Human
Nations
Being
Format
Useful
Many
Many Respects
Even
United
Things
I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
Sam Brownback
People
Think
Our
Secure
Borders
Make
Sure
Coming
Us
Here
Harm
We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
Sam Brownback
Life
Mom
Together
Situation
More
Between
Optimum
Children
Which
Dad
Raised
Bonded
Need
Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
Sam Brownback
State
Dimensions
Failed
Human
Refugees
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.
Sam Brownback
Family
Man
Woman
Marriage
Rebuild
Think
Our
Stay
Structure
Between
Redefining
Get
Family Structure
Again
Stand
Union
Away
Right
Basics
Need
Core
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'.
Sam Brownback
World
Progress
Free
Lose
Consider
Market
Our
Way
Moral
Must
Moral Compass
Give
Free Market
Scientific
Modern
Pace
Modern World
Compass
Fast
Technological
Technological Progress
I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing.
Sam Brownback
Faith
Good
Freedom
Religion
People
Try
Rest
Country
Think
Appropriate
Circumstances
Would
Promote
Good Thing
Freedom From
Idea
Freedom Of Religion
Impose
Personal
Any
Any Circumstances
Anything
Mean
Should
Express
Belief
Right
Thing
Consider this: The United States held its first presidential election in 1789. It marked the first peaceful transfer of executive power between parties in the fourth presidential election in 1801, and it took another 200 years' worth of presidential elections before the courts had to settle an election.
Sam Brownback
Worth
Election
Power
First
Before
Settle
Took
Marked
Consider
Presidential
Presidential Election
States
Had
Between
Parties
Executive
Executive Power
Another
Courts
Years
Transfer
Held
Elections
Peaceful
United
United States
Fourth
When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
Sam Brownback
Friendship
Political
Space
Military
Relations
Our
System
Preventing
Could
Taiwan
Know
Concern
Force
Passed
Effectively
Friends
Did
Revolutionize
Political System
Biggest
Against
Little
Created
Act
Use
Military Force
This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.
Sam Brownback
Good
Sense
Foreign
Foreign Oil
Go
Effort
Just
Common
Dependent
Oil
Where
Want
Wants
Common Sense
Public
Us
Bipartisan
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.
Sam Brownback
Work
Immigration
Everybody
Way
Worst
Worst Thing
System
Something
Volatile
Issue
Huge
Current
Middle
Want
Anything
Flaws
Working
Now
Thing
Need
I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.
Sam Brownback
Needs
Experience
Think
President
Lead
Particularly
Policy
Foreign
Issues
Foreign Policy
Cultural
Cultural Issues
Next
The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.
Sam Brownback
Needs
Job
President
Know
Learn
Policy
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Next
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.
Sam Brownback
Family
Rights
Prison
Human Rights
Recidivism
Rates
Push
Also
Issues
Lot
Human
Social
Then
Worked
Working
Social Issues
Rebuilding
Things
Number
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.
Sam Brownback
Work
Work Hard
Speak
Conservative
Strong
Military
Voice
Economic
Also
Reagan
Issues
Ronald Reagan
Social
Social Issues
Hard
I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.
Sam Brownback
Needs
Country
Think
Renewal
Real
Cultural
I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
Sam Brownback
Marriage
Sanctity
Believe
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.
Sam Brownback
Home
World
Try
Kids
Would
Thousands
Seeing
Countries
Around
Foreign
Foreign Countries
Go
Whenever
Children
Homes
Orphanage
Number
Needed
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.
Sam Brownback
You
Secular
Values
Setting
Everybody
Know
Intellectual
May
Formed
Forward
Now
I'd just come through cancer in 1995. Which really changed my soul. It really did. It changed me... It made my faith alive - and real. God's real.
Sam Brownback
God
Faith
Me
Soul
Cancer
Made
Changed
Alive
My Soul
Through
Come
Real
Did
Just
Which
Really
I strongly support an 'all-of-the-above' energy policy that includes additional development of wind, clean coal, and bio-fuels.
Sam Brownback
Wind
Energy
Additional
Strongly
Clean
Support
Development
Policy
Energy Policy
Coal
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