Todd Akin

I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

Just because somebody makes a mistake doesn't make them useless.

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

This sounds really hokey, but I think Buddhism is the only religion that is genuinely peaceful, so I'd try to promote it in a contemporary society.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.