“I think it’s a theory — the theory of evolution. And I don’t accept it, you know, as a theory.” -Ron Paul in Texas, 2007.

“I get a kick out of folks who call for equality now, the people on the left, ‘Well, equality, we want equality.’ Where do you think this concept of equality comes from?” said Santorum, according to ABC News. “It doesn’t come from Islam. It doesn’t come from the East and Eastern religions, where does it come from? It comes from the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that’s where it comes from. Don’t claim his rights, don’t claim equality as that gift from God and then go around and say, ‘Well, we don’t have to pay attention to what God wants us to do,’” Santorum continued to the enthusiastic crowd. “‘We don’t have to pay attention to God’s moral laws.’ If your rights come from God, then you have an obligation to live responsibly in conforming with God’s laws, and our founders said so, right?”

ABC News link. Quotes from Rick Santorum at a town hall in South Carolina, January 2012.

“He [Romney’s Mississippian bodyguard Garrett Jackson] is now turning me into an, I don’t know, unofficial Southerner. And I’m learning to say ‘y’all,’ and I like grits. Strange things are happening to me.” -Mitt Romney campaigning in Mississippi, March 8, 2012.

See the original version here.

“One of the key issues is the growing anti-religious bigotry of our elites.” -Newt Gingrich in his victory speech in South Carolina, January 21, 2012. (Video.)

“There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia…Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for ‘religious toleration’ are arrogantly dishonest…America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization. Sadly, too many of our elites are the willing apologists for those who would destroy them if they could.” -Newt Gingrich’s Statement on the Proposed “Cordoba House” Mosque Near Ground Zero on Newt.org, July 2010.

“The tax payers shouldn’t have to have money taken out of their pay checks to pay people in government who are our servants who are making a lot more money than we are.” -Mitt Romney, November 2011. (Video.)

Mean annual earnings of full-time private sector American workers in 2010.

Mean annual earnings of full-time federal, state, and local government employees in 2010.

“Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney earned $21.6 million in 2010 and paid 13.9 percent of that amount in income taxes.” -Bloomberg Businessweek, Jan. 24, 2012.

“I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that [Newt Gingrich’s sex scandal involving his second wife]…to make it two days before the primary a significant question in a presidential campaign is as close to despicable as anything I can imagine.” -Newt Gingrich at the CNN Republican primary debate in South Carolina, January 19, 2012. (Video.)

“The GOP’S multimillion dollar ad campaign invoking President Clinton’s relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky was devised by House Speaker Newt Gingrich…reviving the presidential sex scandal just one week before Election Day.” -The Washington Post, October 30, 1998.

“Lemme tell ya something. America is a great nation, because we’re a united nation and those who are trying to divide the nation as you’re trying to do here and as the president is doing are hurting this country, seriously. The right course for America is not to divide America, and try and divide us between one and another, it’s for us to come together as a nation. And if you’ve got a better model, if you think China is better, or Russia is better, or Cuba’s better, or North Korea’s better, I’m glad to hear all about it. But you know what? America’s right, and you’re wrong!” -Mitt Romney in Charleston, South Carolina on January 19, 2012 after being asked “What would you do to support the 99 percent, seeing as you are part of the 1 percent?” (Video at the bottom of this page.)

If you can’t read the text, please click the pic to enlarge.

“What we should do, is [make unemployment insurance] just like welfare…have some sort of either work requirement or job training required as a condition.” -Rick Santorum in the January 16th, 2012 Republican Debate in South Carolina.  (Transcript.)