Campaign Statements — Rick Santorum
Sunday January 01, 2012
“We will degrade those facilities through airstrikes, and make it very public that we are doing that”
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CATEGORIES: Iran | Rick Santorum | War on Terror |
Thursday December 15, 2011
“Iran is not any other country. It is a country that is ruled by the equivalent of al Qaeda on top of this country. They are a radical theocracy. The principle virtue of the Islamic Republic of Iran, according to President Ahmadinejad, is not freedom, opportunity, it’s martyrdom.
The idea, Ron, that mutual assured destruction, like the policy during the Cold War with the Soviet Union would work on Iran when their principle virtue is martyrdom, is—mutual assured destruction with respect to Iran would not be any kind of, you know, idea of preventing a war. It would be an inducement to a war.
This is what their objective is. Their objective is to in fact create a calamity. This is what their theology teaches. They believe that it is their mission to take on the West. They don’t hate us because of what we do or the policies we have. They hate us because of who we are and what we believe in.
And we need to make sure that they do not have a nuclear weapon. And we should be working with the state of Israel right now. We should use covert activity. And we should be planning a strike against their facilities and say, if you do not open up those facilities and not close them down, we will close them down for you.”
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CATEGORIES: Iran | Islamophobia | Rick Santorum | War on Terror |
Thursday December 15, 2011
“There are training camps, jihadist training camps in Central and South America. They’re working with the drug cartels. And they are planning assaults on the United States. That is what we know is going on right now. And we are doing—this president has ignored that threat. Has insulted our allies like Honduras and Colombia, deliberately. Has embraced—as he has the other scoundrels in the Middle East, has embraced Chavez and Ortega and others in Central and South America, not promoting our values and interests.
We need a brand new initiative, an initiative that says that we will promote our values in this region and we will stop the spread of terrorism in Central and South America.”
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Saturday December 10, 2011
“We are to be their ally, we’re to be—supporting them. And I’m—I—I’ve been out here very publicly—that the Israelis have the right to determine what happens in their land. And all of Israel, including the quote—you know, West Bank, is Israeli land.”
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CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Rick Santorum |
Wednesday December 07, 2011
“When a group of radicals including the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Salafi Islamists took the streets in Egypt – against our ally, against our friend who hasn’t attacked us… who isn’t a radical theocrat who wants to control the world – in that case we quickly jumped on board with the radical Salafis and Muslim Brotherhood and threw a friend of the United States and Israel under the bus.”
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CATEGORIES: The Arab Spring | Rick Santorum |
Wednesday November 23, 2011
“Well, the folks who are most likely to be committing these crimes. If you look at—I mean, obviously, it was—obviously, Muslims would be—would be someone you’d look at, absolutely. Those are the folks who are—the radical Muslims are the people that are committing these crimes, as we’ve—by and large, as well as younger males.”
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CATEGORIES: Islamophobia | Rick Santorum |
Tuesday November 22, 2011
“I agree with Ron Paul. We are not fighting a war on terrorism. Terrorism is a tactic. We’re fighting a war against radical Islam. And what radical Islam is telling—all of the radical Islamist leaders are saying is that just wait America out, America is weak, they will not stand for the fight, they cannot maintain this, they’ll set time limits, politics will interfere, and we will tell the people in Afghanistan, we will tell the people in Iraq and other places that we will be the strong horse in the region.”
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CATEGORIES: Afghanistan | Iraq | Islamophobia | Rick Santorum | War on Terror |
Tuesday November 22, 2011
BLITZER: Senator Santorum, under certain circumstances in the past, you’ve supported profiling. Is that correct?
SANTORUM: I have.
BLITZER: What do you have in mind?
SANTORUM: Well, I mean, I think TSA is a good example of that. We should be trying to find the bomber, not the bomb. Other countries have done it. Israel is probably the best example of that.
BLITZER: So just to be precise, is it ethnic profiling, religious profiling? Who would be profiled?
SANTORUM: Well, the folks who are most likely to be committing these crimes. If you look at—I mean, obviously, it was—obviously, Muslims would be—would be someone you’d look at, absolutely. Those are the folks who are—the radical Muslims are the people that are committing these crimes, as we’ve—by and large, as well as younger males. I mean, these are things that—not exclusively—but these are things that you profile to—to find your best—the most likely candidate.
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CATEGORIES: Civil Liberties | Islamophobia | Rick Santorum | War on Terror |
Monday November 21, 2011
“All the people that live in the West Bank are Israelis. They are not Palestinians. There is no Palestinian. This is Israeli land…It was ground that was gained during war. Should we give Texas back to Mexico? Bottom line, it is legitimately Israeli country.”
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CATEGORIES: Israel/Palestine | Rick Santorum |
Sunday November 13, 2011
“What Gov. Perry’s done is he provided in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. Maybe that was an attempt to attract the illegal vote—I mean, the Latino voters. But you attract Latino voters by talking about the importance of immigration. You talk about the importance of having English as the official language of this country.”
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CATEGORIES: Immigration | Rick Santorum |
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