Gary Bauer Quotations

Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.

Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.

Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence.

As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying the fruits of modernity and economic development is a good thing - as long as those people arrived legally and obey the law.

Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when it comes to immigration, the single biggest contributor to population growth in the industrial world, they stand largely silent.

It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.

Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.

If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia.

When a young man massacres innocents, we have been trained to believe that the act was due to improper levels of chemical enzymes and misfiring synapses. As we learn more about our cells, we forget more about our souls.

Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.

Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.

Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.

As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.

It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.

Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.

Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.

Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.

Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

We are looking forward to a vibrant competition among politicians for these voters. No one owns them.

We're right in the middle of a horrible event when people are turning to God. They're going to find it very hard to get people to vote for the sort of things they're in favor of.

When I'm in the White House, you will have a reliable friend for home schooling sitting in the Oval Office,

She was the epitome of the stealth strategy, the idea of nominating somebody that doesn't have a record,

Millions of people understand that it's not bigotry to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, and it's not right-wing to think that children need a mother and a father, not two mothers and two fathers.

My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.

Nobody has ever bought me, Gary, and nobody ever will.

Newt Gingrich is one of the brightest people in the Republican Party and he's always been a little unorthodox in his approach to politics, but that's what makes him Newt Gingrich.

I was surprised. I knew they would be down, but I didn't think by this much. Especially since there was a lot of sales activity in February.

I don't know what compassionate conservatism is if it doesn't include protection for innocent unborn children, ... Fox News Sunday.

Bush is trying to avoid the Souter mistake by relying on a personal relationship, which the first President Bush did not have. But that, many of us would argue, doesn't get you to where you need to be. Just because you know her heart doesn't tell you her judicial philosophy.

I have a 25-year record on the sanctity of life. I'm not a Johnny-come-lately like Mr. Forbes.

I can't say I'm too sad to see him go since I want everyone to go but me. But he's a good man and I'm glad he was there.

For me, the criteria has to be to find that individual that has the right philosophy and the right experience to get through a confirmation process, ... There are women that fit those characterizations. There are Hispanics, African-Americans.

Historically, it was an event in and of itself to own property in Boulder. I think that is changing ... slowly, but still changing.

Human life has dignity at every age; the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of government must reject any scheme to permit or promote assisted suicide and euthanasia. We must encourage new efforts to assist patients approaching the end of life to cope with their pain through medical, psychological, and social means.

I actually think in spite of their bravado, the Senate Democrats fear a debate over values more than anything else. So I'm going to boldly predict that there will not be a sustainable filibuster of this nomination, and he will be confirmed with at least 60 votes,

I was deeply disappointed in Governor Bush's answer.

I think anything that involves a felony, I don't see how you can get away with ... Fox News Sunday.

I think some good things were said tonight,

I will not be out of the contest,

Our children are being taught a terrible lesson right now. The president of the United States, in all due respect to him and his office, he has hurt the office of the presidency and I believe he ought to be ashamed of himself.

My plan is to go all the way to the convention, but after each stop you have to assess your strategy,

My party needs to listen to Main Street, not to Wall Street on this issue.

It doesn't look like a call for respect. It looks like a call for submission.

It has been a difficult three weeks, not only for her and the president but for those of us on the outside who were not able to justify or rationalize the nomination,

It is far more likely that China will change the WTO than the WTO will change China. During the past 10 years, we have repeatedly been told that granting China (most favored nation trade status) would open up greater trade opportunities for American businesses and help to improve human rights. Both of these claims have proven to be unfounded.

I might be in favor of bipartisanship if that means to get some conservatives in the Cabinet,

The abortion industry can try to improve its 'messaging' all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.

That's what an education ought to be about: presenting to young people a variety of choices and let them make the decision.

You can be an evangelical and you can be self-described pro-life, but it doesn't tell us what she will do about a decision like Roe that has been set in stone now for over 30 years.

The polls mean virtually nothing, ... We're not tottering on the edge. Each week we're picking up momentum.

We're not going to find out anything more,

The question Americans should ask is not whether a candidate is affiliated with a particular faith but rather whether that candidate's faith makes it more likely he or she will support policies that align with their values.

The conventional wisdom is that if you've got high name recognition right now, the front-loading is going to be a great advantage.

Why is it that today we had to mark for the 27th time the destruction of one-and-a-half million children?

There are a couple people in the party who think you can become president by essentially buying the presidency. You've got one candidate who has raised a lot of money and the other candidate who has inherited a lot of money,

With so much at stake, to many of us it seems ill-advised to nominate somebody that we're then told we should have faith in, when there isn't any evidence of intellectual rigor being applied to these contentious issues. There are probably seven to eight names that have been looked to, have written wonderful decisions that are strong intellectually, compelling in their presentation. They are the kind of people you want to look to if you want to try to move the legal culture in America.

But I will not vouch for a judicial nominee with that thin of a record. This stealth strategy ought to be dropped as a strategy, because over the years the only people it's fooled are us.

The governor knows an unborn child is a human being, just as I do, ... So I hope he'll find his voice as the front-runner of our party in the weeks ahead on this very important issue.

Up until now, the election really has been about how much money one guy's raised and another guy's inherited, ... Now, for the election to mean something, it ought to be about the issues. These are serious differences.

The other candidates ... have got much higher name recognition than us. Their not able to bring as many resources in as we've been able to bring in.

There is so much work to do with George and so little time to do it,

an international bureaucracy that is reluctant to even criticize China, much less sanction it.

There's a frustration at the grass-roots level so far.

is the best shot we have to end the era of Bill and Hillary and Al Gore. And so with great pride and without any hesitation, I am pleased to be here today to endorse John McCain in exchange for his promise that I'll have a front-row seat at his inaugural.

I've raised money for pregnancy crisis centers, while my friend Steve Forbes was raising money for Christie Todd Whitman,

People can get out of the homosexual lifestyle; those people exist. I spoke at their convention just a few weeks ago. There were hundreds of them, now happily married, now with families of their own. I will encourage anybody I can to get out of a destructive lifestyle. And, I don't believe a healthy society can endorse it, subsidize it, or encourage it.

Announce an additional 45-day review of the transaction? Appoint an American board of governors that will stand between the UAE company and port operations so that sensitive information doesn't fall into the wrong hands.

This country can be better than it is today, and I intend to make it better,

Almost all of my competitors suggest that they too stand for these ideas, but as I've pointed out in the debates, the devil is in the details,

American children are dead. Not in Kosovo, but in Colorado, ... ourselves whether or not America can still be a shining city on a hill or if we are going to continue to sink into the violence and despair.

Ask the current president of the United States that question and you'll get an essay answer,

It's a bad poll and it's bad advice.

It's an interesting phenomenon that our behavior seems to have taken a turn for the worse when it comes to spreading germs in the office.

It's time we stood up, ... (Brazil) should resign tonight.

It's obvious I'm going to have to win some of these,

It sounds to me like you said the setting up of the Social Security system was a mistake,

The next vacancy, depending on who it is, will really be the mother of all battles.

Each of us think that we've got something that we bring to the table that no one else brings. I think my message resonates better.

They've made a calculation: take action, but with the least discomfort to other portions of the coalition--some of the more moderate suburban women who don't react to this with the same enthusiasm I might.

The inventory is up and prices are up. It's a little surprising. It was a nice January.

I'm going to ask you a simple 'yes or no' question, ... I'm going to ask you if you will commit tonight to naming a pro-life running mate.

I know when John was in that POW camp he wasn't sitting around thinking about the wealth of America or the power of America. He was thinking about that moral idea of America,

I'll be dead before condo prices exceed single-family because of the fact of where we are.

I'm confused here. I can't tell whether Judge Hecht is arguing that she is going to overturn Roe or she's not going to overturn Roe . If he wants to reassure his fellow pro-life conservatives, that's the last argument he should be making, the argument that he just made.

If ... the president does decide to put American troops in harm's way, I will unconditionally support them.

If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.

In spite of the Dow Jones industrial average over 10,000, a growing economy, in spite of all those things to our credit, you and I know that there is something wrong in America.

I think my message resonates better. I believe that candidates that are not getting the money and are not showing any ability to create some passion in their audiences are going to find themselves just losing traction.

George Bush doesn't want on his watch to say that marriage, defined as the union of one man and one woman, was lost,

Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of government must reject any scheme to permit or promote assisted suicide and euthanasia.