Josh Hawley Quotes

People don’t have any confidence in Jefferson City. There’s incredible anger in the political establishment, and one of the reasons is special interests dominate the Capitol in our state.

Taxpayer-funded abortion, especially the devil‘s bargain with Planned Parenthood, must cease immediately. To be clear, that means I believe Planned Parenthood should receive no tax monies of any kind.

I don’t take anything that I read in the newspaper at face value on either side – from anybody.

American business needs more conscience, not less, whether from religious motivation like Hobby Lobby or from secular intentions.

I am firmly of the view that the Missouri citizens deserve transparent and accountable government, especially in the expenditure of their tax dollars.

Facts are often complicated.

To guard our most cherished values and the law that holds us together, America needs a Supreme Court justice committed to the people‘s Constitution. Neil Gorsuch is that person.

Republican government – self-government by the people – is at the heart of what it means to be free.

The Supreme Court has been clear that states have the right to protect their citizens against out-of-state regulations that would burden those citizens.

If you want a politician, then you probably shouldn’t vote for me.

Labor, and the ability to earn one’s own way, is central to dignity and, indeed, to vocation. Christians should seek to broaden the private economy to include more individuals in remunerative labor.

American workers and American entrepreneurs can compete with anybody, anywhere if our government will stop making America a cost-prohibitive place to do business.

My first job out of law school was on the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, where Gorsuch is a judge. I observed in the year that I worked at the court what many litigants and commentators have since noted: that Gorsuch possesses an incisive legal mind, writes with skill and wit, and is scrupulously fair.

Contrary to what many secularists allege, the Constitution and Bill of Rights did not ‘privatize’ religion and quarantine it from the public square.

It’s not a secret that we have a crisis in confidence in public institutions in our country.

If people can’t expect their government to be honest and clean, they can’t expect anything from it.

I will not let the interests of powerful corporations close our economy or jeopardize consumers.

No entity in the history of the world has collected more information about you than Google. My office wants to know what exactly Google does with all of the information it’s gathering.

The Constitution has never treated religion as merely another private opinion that government can order people to keep to themselves.

For those of us on the front lines fighting Washington‘s power grabs, Judge Gorsuch’s commitment to interpreting the Constitution and the laws as they are actually written is welcome news.

The Constitution authorizes Congress to tax Americans to provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare. But in Washington, the professional political class has hijacked that authority to rig up a tax code that provides for the well-being of Washington, not the country.

As attorney general, I have a duty to defend the laws and constitution of the State of Missouri.

Many entrepreneurs embrace profit-making and charitable purposes. Companies such as shoes seller Toms and eyeglass firm Warby Parker sell products at a profit with a pledge to devote part of their earnings to the needy. The number of for-profit businesses with a built-in charitable dimension has proliferated.

Senator McCaskill – she‘s been in D.C. forever. She’s turned her back on farmers. She’s ignored working families.

The best way to put the federal bureaucracy back on a leash is to make it obey the laws the people write.

The Obama administration contends that starting a for-profit business means leaving religious liberty behind. The administration has effectively told the Supreme Court that for-profit companies have no right to act on moral convictions the government opposes. They are about profits. That position is deeply mistaken.

People have completely lost confidence in our public officials in Jefferson City.

Unfair and deceptive business practices have been illegal in most states for decades. Yet traffickers routinely use what appear to be legitimate businesses – massage parlors, bars, nail salons – as fronts for their illegal exploitation. It’s the ultimate business scam.

The Constitution treats religious belief as uniquely special, uniquely central to the dignity of the human person, and, for that reason, beyond the power of the state to control.

Republican liberty depends on citizen participation, on a government that is of, for, and by the people.

Government serves Christ’s kingdom rule; this is its purpose. And Christians’ purpose in politics should be to advance the kingdom of God – to make it more real, more tangible, more present.

It’s far from clear that restoring Christian social authority is an appropriate aim of politics in the first place.

The allegations against Roy Moore are very serious. In the state of Missouri, they are criminal – these are criminal allegations.