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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
William Todd Akin was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Missouri's 2nd congressional district from 2001 to 2013. He was a member of the Republican Party. Born in New York City, Akin grew up in the Greater St. Louis area. After receiving his bachelor's degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, Akin served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and worked in the computer and steel industries. In 1988, he was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives. He served in the state house until 2000, when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, in which he served until 2013.
Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.
At the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God.
We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.
Just because somebody makes a mistake doesn't make them useless.
I will work with anyone that wants to get America back on track and make sure that the government is the servant and no longer the master.
Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me.
Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.
I stand up for the things I believe in.
I am deeply concerned about America.
I don't apologize.
The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.
I'm a dad and that's pretty important.
Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.
We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.
You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement.
As I said, I believe life starts at conception.
The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.
I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.
I was involved in some peaceful protests.
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.
I'm standing for real freedom.
More freedom means more jobs... less government and less taxes.
My base will show up in earthquakes.
It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.
Social Security is a tax.
Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived.
Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.
In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected.
By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.
I think that the thing you have to do is, people have to start being held accountable for their decisions. If somebody's not buying insurance, then they're going to have to be selling their car, or whatever it is to try to help cover that.
Now, Social Security through the years, for many many people, has been a terrible investment. It's really a tax, that's all it is. Social Security is a tax.
I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin.
You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other law-breaking: Not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant, cheating on taxes, all these kinds of things.
The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide.