The place where he was, in my mind, the most successful, and first successful, was in academia. He understood pride of smart people. He attacked them… - Rick Santorum

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The place where he was, in my mind, the most successful, and first successful, was in academia. He understood pride of smart people. He attacked them at their weakest, that they were in fact smarter than everybody else, and could come up with something new and different, pursue new truths, deny the existence of truth, play with it, because they're smart. And so academia, a long time ago, fell.

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About Rick Santorum

Richard John Santorum (born May 10, 1958) is an American politician, attorney and political commentator. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007 and was the Senate's third-ranking Republican from 2001 to 2007. Santorum ran for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, finishing second to Mitt Romney. In January 2017, he became a CNN senior political commentator.

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Birth Name: Richard John Santorum
Also Known As: Rick
Alternative Names: Richard John "Rick" Santorum Richard Santorum Richard John Santorum, Jr. Richard John Santorum Jr. Richard John "Rick" Santorum, Jr. Richard John "Rick" Santorum Jr.

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This is not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war at all. This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies, Satan, would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country, the United States of America.

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