Max Baucus Quotes

Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on non-adherents. This has taken many forms, including attempts to introduce organized prayer in public schools, to outlaw birth control and abortion, and to use public tax revenues to finance religious schools.

Most people, I think, have accepted that it's not up to them to control other people's choices, except, it seems, when it comes to Washington, D.C., where everyone has an opinion about people's uteruses.

Legalizing abortion to get government out of the bedroom is like legalizing cannibalism to get government out of the kitchen.

It's sad that we vote for and elect officials to run our state, run our country, over social issues. I don't believe they belong in politics.

When you start talking about abortion and gay rights, people take that seriously and they're passionate about it - on both sides.

It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.

I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

My view is regardless of whether you think prohibiting abortion is good or whether you think prohibiting abortion is bad, regardless of how you come out on that, my only point is the Constitution does not say anything about it. It leaves it up to democratic choice.

Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.

I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce.

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.

Governments facing population explosions and implosions will soon have no choice but to grapple with matters generally considered private.

With jurisdiction over the issue of abortion and the purity and safety of food, was the only place in America where both motherhood and apple pie were controversial.

There’s all this Christian right, and abortion. These are not the issues that drive people’s concerns.

The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.

No public official, no congressman, has the right to tell a woman what decision she must make and no congressman has the wisdom to dictate what is best for her.

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

The Bible does not ban abortion, nor did the founding fathers.

I refuse to take the position that now I have to make the whole society of non Catholics, non believers, and even those Catholics who do not support the abortion dicta, I have to impose a law upon them. If you do that, you are talking about a Catholic theocracy.

The government should not be in the business of deciding who is honorable.

Instead of school busing and prayer in schools, which are both controversial, why not a joint solution? Prayer in buses. Just drive these kids around all day and let them pray their fuckn' empty little heads off.

Abortion on demand is bad social policy.

The very nature of the government, and the direction it's been heading in for the past 40 years, is one of contrived government solutions to all the problems in the United States.

If Congress wants to get involved in the business of morality by allowing a moment of silence in our schools, I support that. But if our representatives in Washington are truly going to be moral leaders, then they have to do more than just tell us to pray for guidance.