ABORTION
“I am pro-life. I have 100 percent voting record on the pro-life issues. … Intellectually, and politically, and from a policy standpoint, I’ve always voted that way.” “I think the Supreme Court was absolutely right in the partial-birth abortion decision.”
May 1, Fox News
“I think Roe vs. Wade was bad law and bad medical science. And the way to address that is through good judges. I don’t think the court ought to wake up one day and make new social policy for the country.”
March 11, Fox News
CLIMATE CHANGE
“Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. … NASA says the Martian South Pole’s ‘ice cap’ has been shrinking for three summers in a row. Maybe Mars got its fever from earth. If so, I guess Jupiter’s caught the same cold, because it’s warming up too, like Pluto. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, nonsignatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists who run their airconditioning at 60 degrees and refuse to recycle.
March 22, ABC Radio
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
“Marriage is between a man and a woman, and I don’t believe judges ought to come along and change that.”
On civil unions: “I think that that ought to be left up to the states. I personally do not think that that is a good idea, but I believe in many of these cases where there’s real dispute in the country, these things are not going to be ever resolved.”
March 11, Fox News
GUN CONTROL
“Communities that recognize and grant Second Amendment rights to responsible adults have a significantly lower incidence of violent crime than those that do not. … Whenever I’ve seen one of those “Gun-Free Zone” signs, especially outside of a school filled with our youngest and most vulnerable citizens, I’ve always wondered exactly who these signs are directed at.”
April 19, ABC Radio
IMMIGRATION
“We’ve tried the ‘comprehensive’ route before to solve the illegal immigration problem. … Twenty-two years and millions of illegal immigrants later, that comprehensive plan hasn’t done what most Americans wanted it to do — secure America’s borders. Now Washington says the new ‘comprehensive’ plan will solve the problem that the last comprehensive plan didn’t. … We should scrap this ‘comprehensive’ immigration bill and the whole debate until the government can show the American people that we have secured the borders — or at least made great headway.”
May 19, Townhall.com
IRAQ
“There’s going to be a day after Iraq. … If we leave there under bad circumstances, we’re going to have a haven down there for terrorists. The whole area, I’m afraid, will become nuclearized. The Sunni countries are looking at what Iran is doing. And if we can’t help with stability in that part of the world, they’re going to help themselves, and they’re going to go nuclear, in terms of weaponry and the ability to counteract what Iran’s doing. The whole region is up for grabs.”
May 1, Fox News
TAXES
“President John F. Kennedy was an astute proponent of tax cuts and the proposition that lower tax rates produce economic growth. Calvin Coolidge and Ronald Reagan also understood the power of lower tax rates and managed to put through cuts that grew the U.S. economy like Kansas corn. Sadly, we just don’t seem able to keep that lesson learned.”
April 14, The Wall Street Journal
