Women will find it best to let Rick Santorum stay at home

“— Jan. 20, 2012 interview with Piers Morgan on CNN.

On unmarried mothers

“The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong.”

— From Santorum’s book, “It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good.”

On working mothers

“Many women have told me, and surveys have shown, that they find it easier, more ‘professionally’ gratifying, and certainly more socially affirming, to work outside the home than to give up their careers to take care of their children.”

— From “It Takes a Family”

On stay-at-home mothers

“Respect for stay-at-home mothers has been poisoned by a toxic combination of the village elders’ war on the traditional family and radical feminism’s misogynistic crusade to make working outside the home the only marker of social value and self-respect.’’

— From “It Takes a Family”

On equal opportunity

“Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.”

— From “It Takes a Family””