Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.

Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.

What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.

They are closing the mine in two weeks, they say. Six days a week bumping down in the gondola, pecking out the rocks and hauling them back up, doing it again the next day for twenty-seven years, one cave-in, three thin raises, and a failed strike. Where am I going to go every day, what am I going to do with all that sunshine?

And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, 'Because when he sings ... even the birds stop to listen.

We've come a long, long way. We haven't killed a coal miner in a state of Illinois coal mine for two consecutive years.