10 Controversial Santorum Quotes That Aren’t Going Away, From Satan to Gay Marriage [VIDEO]

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"Satan has his sights on the United States of America!" he said.

"Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition...This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country--the United States of America." 

2. In the same 2008 speech, Santorum implied that mainline Protestants are no longer true Christians.

"This was a Protestant country and the Protestant ethic, mainstream, mainline Protestantism--and of course we look at the shape of mainline Protestantism in this country and it is a shambles, it is gone from the world of Christianity as I see it," Santorum said. "So they attacked mainline Protestantism, they attacked the church, and what better way to go after smart people who also believe they're pious to use both vanity and pride to also go after the church?"

3. At a campaign stop on Feb. 18, 2012, Santorum said President Barack Obama based his views on "some phony ideology." He later said he meant to insult the president's liberal ideology, not imply he wasn't Christian.

"[Obama's Agenda is based on] "some phony theology. Not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology."

4. Santorum dissed the public school system while at the same campaign stop in Ohio on Feb. 18 and said he would home-school his kids in the White House.

"Where did they come up that public education and bigger education bureaucracies was the rule in America? Parents educated their children, because it's their responsibility to educate their children," he said, according to The New York Times.

"Yes the government can help. But the idea that the federal government should be running schools, frankly much less that the state government should be running schools, is anachronistic. It goes back to the time of industrialization of America when people came off the farms where they did home-school or have the little neighborhood school, and into these big factories, so we built equal factories called public schools. And while those factories as we all know in Ohio and Pennsylvania have fundamentally changed, the factory school has not."