Richard Mourdock
Richard Mourdock
Richard Earl Mourdockwas the 53rd treasurer of the state of Indiana, serving from February 10, 2007, to August 29, 2014. Running with the support of the Tea Party movement, he defeated six-term incumbent U.S. Senator Richard Lugar in the May 2012 Republican primary election. He lost the November 6, 2012, general election for Lugar's seat to Democratic U. S. Representative Joe Donnelly...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 October 1951
CountryUnited States of America
I do think the Tea Party position will prevail, and I am often asked: 'What has the Tea Party done and is it even still alive?' People think because there have been no demonstrations with the 'Don't Tread on Me' flag it's gone, but it hasn't.
All of Obama's policies are working against economic growth, not for it, and Republicans ought to be talking about it and they're not. We need to take a stand.
We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle.
To all of you who are Republicans of long standing, I hope you appreciate that I always tried to stand for conservative values.
Let's do away with the Departments of Education, Energy Commerce, Housing and Urban Development.
It's a beautiful thing at 60 to know who you are.
I believe God controls the universe. I don't believe biology works in an uncontrolled fashion.
What I've said about compromise, I hope to build a conservative majority so bipartisanship becomes Democrats joining Republicans to roll back the size of government, reduce the bureaucracy, and get America moving again.
I used to dig around the sandbox and pull out pieces of coal and show them to my mother, and she used to say that's how I must have known I was going to be a geologist.
I always start my discussions with the Tea Party groups with telling them, 'you know I have only three words for you: God. Bless. You.' Because the Tea Party's bringing the Republican party back to a more conservative base.
People in Indiana like to see their politicians at the county fair or the Rotary Club.
Indiana taxpayers, retired Hoosier state policemen and teachers are neither greedy speculators nor unpatriotic. They are, however, secured creditors of Chrysler. They deserve to have their funds protected under the full auspices of the law.