Tony Campolo Quotes

I'm a Republican, but not on this issue [abortion]. It's destroying the party.

The only reason we have a pro-life movement in this country is because of the Catholic people and the Catholic Church.

One effect of Roe was to mobilize a permanent constituency for criminalizing abortion - a constituency that has driven much of the southern realignment toward conservatism.

For decades, the pro-life movement has focused on scientific evidence and ethical arguments.

I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.

When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

Right-to-life groups won't fund us because we're Democrats.

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

Dick Armey is an economic conservative. He is not a social conservative. He doesn't like to talk about marriage and about the unborn child, the sanctity of life and things like that. He wants to talk about smaller government.

I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.

If you're out of touch with the pro-choice majority, you're out of office.

The religious right is turning the Republican party into a revival tent.

I think that it was the best thing that could have happened when the Supreme Court legalized abortion.

Militant forces promoting abortion in this country have invaded my state.

Republican voters were more likely to be pro-choice than Democrats until the late 1980s.

By supporting Reagan, evangelicals were not supporting womanizing or divorce, but they were endorsing Reagan's policies.

Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.

I support religious liberty, but I also think it is very important as a Republican Party that we bring a compassionate tone when talking about women's health care issues, when we talk about pro-life and pro-choice.

Tea Party adherents are actually more religion-driven and more anti-abortion than the party they are supposedly upending.

Once the religious right got their beachhead in the Republican Party in 1980, they expanded it. Even Barry Goldwater was extremely hostile to the religious right, but Reagan catered to them. The religious right then expanded their base and that drove the moderates out.

We need a Congress that understands the sanctity of life, the sanctity of traditional values, the sanctity of traditional marriage.

If the American people - pro-choice and pro-life - cannot agree with the basic concept that the life of a baby born alive following a botched abortion should be protected, then when do the rights of these babies begin?