Gary Bauer

“The science of life is changing hearts and minds.”

— Gary Bauer

“I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.”

— Gary Bauer

“If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.”

— Gary Bauer

“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.”

— Gary Bauer

“More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?”

— Gary Bauer

“Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.”

— Gary Bauer

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

— Gary Bauer

“The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.”

— Gary Bauer

“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.”

— Gary Bauer

“For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.”

— Gary Bauer

“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.”

— Gary Bauer

“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.”

— Gary Bauer

“The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.”

— Gary Bauer

“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.”

— Gary Bauer

“Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.”

— Gary Bauer

“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.”

— Gary Bauer

“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.”

— Gary Bauer

“All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.”

— Gary Bauer

“The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.”

— Gary Bauer

“I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.”

— Gary Bauer