Josh Hawley Quotes

My view is that Roe v. Wade had no basis in law or fact. We have to protect the rights of every person and group to follow their sincere religious belief peacefully without hurting other people. People don't have any confidence in Jefferson City. There's incredible anger in the political establishment, and one of the reasons is special interests dominate the Capitol in our state. Unfair and deceptive business practices have been illegal in most states for decades. Yet traffickers routinely use what appear to be legitimate businesses - massage parlors, bars, nail salons - as fronts for their illegal exploitation. It's the ultimate business scam. For those of us on the front lines fighting Washington's power grabs, Judge Gorsuch's commitment to interpreting the Constitution and the laws as they are actually written is welcome news. Contrary to what many secularists allege, the Constitution and Bill of Rights did not 'privatize' religion and quarantine it from the public square. Many entrepreneurs embrace profit-making and charitable purposes. Companies such as shoes seller Toms and eyeglass firm Warby Parker sell products at a profit with a pledge to devote part of their earnings to the needy. The number of for-profit businesses with a built-in charitable dimension has proliferated. American workers and American entrepreneurs can compete with anybody, anywhere if our government will stop making America a cost-prohibitive place to do business. Republican liberty depends on citizen participation, on a government that is of, for, and by the people. No entity in the history of the world has collected more information about you than Google. My office wants to know what exactly Google does with all of the information it's gathering. If people can't expect their government to be honest and clean, they can't expect anything from it. More than 150 years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery is illegal almost everywhere. But it is still not abolished - not even here, in the land of the free. On the contrary, there is a cancer of violence, a modern-day slavery growing in America by the day, in the very places where we live and work. It's called human trafficking. To guard our most cherished values and the law that holds us together, America needs a Supreme Court justice committed to the people's Constitution. Neil Gorsuch is that person. I want to know what kind of personal, private, confidential information that Google collects from its users. We need an attorney general that's going to be an advocate for the state of Missouri and is willing to intervene in the regulatory process and go to court to protect Missourians from over-regulation. Fighting public corruption is essential to preserving a working democracy that people have confidence in. I said that time and again on the campaign trail, and that's why it's such a high priority for me. The Supreme Court has been clear that states have the right to protect their citizens against out-of-state regulations that would burden those citizens. Despite what one might gather from the shrill rantings of the leftist commentariat, for whom religion is a sort of disease, religious difference in the United States has rarely led to serious social strife. That is no small achievement, and one that virtually no other Western democracy can boast. It's far from clear that restoring Christian social authority is an appropriate aim of politics in the first place. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act extends religious liberty to corporations without regard to their for-profit and non-profit status. Meaningful ethics reform is vital to restoring public confidence in Missouri's political system. I don't take anything that I read in the newspaper at face value on either side - from anybody. I am firmly of the view that the Missouri citizens deserve transparent and accountable government, especially in the expenditure of their tax dollars. I said I would be part of the solution in Jefferson City, not part of the problem. And I said I'd take on the culture of corruption. It's not a secret that we have a crisis in confidence in public institutions in our country. The best way to put the federal bureaucracy back on a leash is to make it obey the laws the people write. The Constitution treats religious belief as uniquely special, uniquely central to the dignity of the human person, and, for that reason, beyond the power of the state to control. Labor, and the ability to earn one's own way, is central to dignity and, indeed, to vocation. Christians should seek to broaden the private economy to include more individuals in remunerative labor. Through the 1980s and '90s, evangelicals sought to turn back the forces of secularization. Groups like the Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition pressed for laws recognizing Christianity's unique place in American life, including laws that would allow prayer in public schools and Christian displays in public places. The Obama administration contends that starting a for-profit business means leaving religious liberty behind. The administration has effectively told the Supreme Court that for-profit companies have no right to act on moral convictions the government opposes. They are about profits. That position is deeply mistaken.