SAM BROWNBACK

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.

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

Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

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.

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

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.

I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

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

None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.

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

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'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 real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.

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

Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care.

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

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

I believe in the sanctity of marriage.

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

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

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

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.