Rick Santorum
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"Richard John" ""Rick"" "Santorum" is an American attorney and Republican Party (United States)/Republican Party politician. He served as a United States Senate/United States Senator representing Pennsylvania (1995–2007) and was the Senate's Republican Conference Chairman of the United States Senate/third-ranking Republican (2001–07). He ran as a Rick Santorum presidential campaign, 2012/candidate for the Republican Party presidential primaries, 2012/2012 Republican Party presidential nomination, finishing second to the eventual Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

Born in Virginia, Santorum was raised primarily in Butler, Pennsylvania/Butler, Pennsylvania. He obtained an undergraduate degree from Pennsylvania State University, an Master of Business Administration/M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Juris Doctor/J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law (now part of Pennsylvania State University/Penn State). Santorum worked as an attorney at K&L Gates/Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, where he met Karen Garver. They married in 1990, and have seven living children (one child died shortly after birth). Santorum was elected to the United States House of Representatives/U.S. House of Representatives to represent Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district in 1990 and later became a member of a group dubbed the "Gang of Seven".

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This was tried once before in America, when the liberty and happiness rights of the slaveholder were put over the life and liberty rights of the slave. But unlike abortion today, in most states even the slaveholder did not have unlimited right to kill his slave.

Thirty-two years after the legalization of abortion by the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life.

The fact that so many are troubled still with the unlimited right of abortion is a powerful statement as to where this country stands on abortion.

Doesn't need political hand-holders.

There is no one person in the Bush administration who is indispensable — with the exception of the president.

Look, I am seeking my party's Whip position. Would I take that job then leave my party in the lurch by running for President?

What happened in America so that mothers and fathers who leave their children in the care of someone else ... find themselves more affirmed by society? ... Here, we can thank the influence of radical feminism, one of the core philosophies of the village elders.

We really have an obligation to keep our eye on the ball here, ... The ball is helping those, the needy, in our society.

While there's no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.