William Todd Akin (born July 5, 1947) is an American politician who is a former U.S. Representative for Missouri's 2nd congressional district, serving from 2001 to 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party.
I stand up for the things I believe in.
My base will show up in earthquakes.
By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.
I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.
At the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God.
I am deeply concerned about America.
The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.
I don't know the future.
The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide.
You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other law-breaking: Not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant, cheating on taxes, all these kinds of things.
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.
I'm standing for real freedom.
You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement.
As I said, I believe life starts at conception.
Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
I'm a dad and that's pretty important.
Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.
Just because somebody makes a mistake doesn't make them useless.
Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived.