Top 120 Rick Santorum Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The left, unfortunately, participates in bullying more than the right does. They say they’re tolerant, and they’re anything but tolerant of people who disagree with them and support traditional values.”

— Rick Santorum

52. “My mom was a working woman. She made more money than my dad. Both my parents worked. And this was in the ’60s.”

— Rick Santorum

53. “My position on how to address the Confederate flag is clear. In Florida, we acted, moving the flag from the state grounds to a museum, where it belonged.”

— Rick Santorum

54. “Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up.”

— Rick Santorum

55. “Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.”

— Rick Santorum

56. “I am not a libertarian, and I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement.”

— Rick Santorum

57. “I’m someone who believes that making things creates wealth.”

— Rick Santorum

58. “I’m always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I’m called a bigot.”

— Rick Santorum

59. “We shouldn’t be putting tariffs on anything. That hurts working men and women in US. What we should be doing is making our manufacturing more competitive.”

— Rick Santorum

60. “What Donald Trump is focused on is a policy of trade that looks after the interests of the American worker, not just the overall GDP numbers. And that is what is resonating.”

— Rick Santorum

61. “Against the advice of my wife, I endorsed Arlen Specter. I should have listened to my wife.”

— Rick Santorum

62. “I mean the fact is that some of this information that we have found out that led to Usama bin Laden actually came from these enhanced interrogation techniques.”

— Rick Santorum

63. “This is the beauty of Donald Trump, that he goes against the Republican orthodoxy, much of which has been rejected a lot of Republican voters, who, well, would be Republican voters, at least in my state, who I think would otherwise like to vote Republican.”

— Rick Santorum

64. “If all you think we need to do to get this economy going and get this country on the right track is to cut government and reduce taxes, you don’t understand America. America is a moral enterprise, not an economic enterprise.”

— Rick Santorum

65. “Everybody knows full well my passion about defeating Barack Obama. Over my dead body would I vote for Barack Obama.”

— Rick Santorum

66. “In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!”

— Rick Santorum

67. “Would the potential attraction to Mormonism by simply having a Mormon in the White House threaten traditional Christianity by leading more Americans to a church that some Christians believe misleadingly calls itself Christian, is an active missionary church, and a dangerous cult?”

— Rick Santorum

68. “We need to have a president that’s going to pledge, as I have – I’m going to make America the number-one manufacturer so working men and women can have good paying jobs again in America.”

— Rick Santorum

69. “We had 90 percent rates, but nobody paid them. And so you had all these exemptions, exclusions, shelters, all this kind of stuff. And that’s why most Americans are saying, ‘Look, let’s just be honest. Let’s have lower rates, but everybody pays them.’”

— Rick Santorum

70. “I raise money the old fashioned way, I go out and tell people what I think. And I say to them, “If you hire me, I’m a CEO, and I’ll listen to you. But at the end of the day, I’m going to make the decision, something I’ve done throughout my whole career with, frankly, great success.””

— Rick Santorum

71. “If you look at the big entertainment industry and their pursuit of the bottom line profits in exchange for producing content and distributing that content and marketing that content to inappropriate audiences, that’s a problem for me.”

— Rick Santorum

72. “I love it when the left and when the president say, ‘Don’t try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.’ They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self.”

— Rick Santorum

73. “I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.”

— Rick Santorum

74. “I have a problem with homosexual acts.”

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75. “Satan is attacking the great institutions of America. This is a spiritual war. I believe in good and evil.”

— Rick Santorum

76. “We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like – the anti-war government nig- uh, the – America was a source for division around the world, that what we were doing was wrong.”

— Rick Santorum

77. “President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.”

— Rick Santorum

78. “I don’t use the term “black” very often. I use the term African-American more than I use “black”.”

— Rick Santorum

79. “I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. I don’t think the libertarians have it right when it comes to what the Constitution’s all about. I don’t think they have it right as to what our history is.”

— Rick Santorum

80. “There are conservatives in Hollywood who make good movies. They just don’t make conservative movies because that’s not what gets funded.”

— Rick Santorum

81. “I don’t believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.”

— Rick Santorum

82. “I’ve had the opportunity to spend some time with Donald Trump. He is – he – as you can imagine, I mean, he’s a very engaging man. He’s – he puts on an image as a lot of candidates and I think all of us do when we’re in front of a microphone that’s really tough and combative.”

— Rick Santorum

83. “Pick any other Republican in the country. He is the worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama.”

— Rick Santorum

84. “There are certain skills that business people have that are – that are, in fact, helpful in – when it comes to being in political leadership.”

— Rick Santorum

85. “I think Donald Trump is going to surprise a lot of people.”

— Rick Santorum

86. “Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that’s what? Children. Monogamous relationships.”

— Rick Santorum

87. “I cleaned toilets and shined shoes.”

— Rick Santorum

88. “As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across this country.”

— Rick Santorum

89. “Governor Romney supported the bailout of Wall Street and decided not to support the bailout of Detroit.”

— Rick Santorum

90. “I’m a capitalist, not a corporatist. I’m not someone who believes we should be bailing out corporations whether their auto industries, or banks.”

— Rick Santorum

91. “There is a limitation on debate, which is unlike other bills, for 20 hours, but there is no limitation on amendments. In other words, Republicans if they wanted to, and I suspect they do, could offer literally thousands of amendments and keep Senate in session for weeks and months.”

— Rick Santorum

92. “Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don’t mind big government.”

— Rick Santorum

93. “The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think that we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists and focusing on what we do – what we’re really good at, which is – which is theology and morality.”

— Rick Santorum

94. “Who are benefits promised to, overwhelmingly? Well, they’re promised to older people. And if you have a society like Europe that is upside down where there are a lot more older people than younger people, you have economic calamity.”

— Rick Santorum

95. “I watch the Food Network with my kids. We – yeah, I – I – I generally don’t admit that, but I love cooking.”

— Rick Santorum

96. “If the most liberal man that’s ever been in office can get elected when 20 percent of the population identifies as liberal then I think we can elect a conservative when 40 percent of the population identifies themselves as conservative.”

— Rick Santorum

97. “I think I’m the best candidate not just to beat President Obama, but to do what is necessary to get this country going, a conviction conservative who can rally the American public around a common set of values.”

— Rick Santorum

98. “Why? Because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and, therefore, less care that has to be done, because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society.”

— Rick Santorum

99. “I would say any type of sexual activity has absolutely no place in the military.”

— Rick Santorum

100. “I’m one of the few people up here who actually believes that we need a level playing field when it comes to manufacturing. That means a good tax code, a good regulatory environment, low energy prices, better opportunities for workers to get training.”

— Rick Santorum