Now it’s just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, ‘What are you doing for your country?’ you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.
ALAN KOOI SIMPSONIn your country club, your church, and business, about fifteen percent of the people are screwballs, lightweights, and boobs, and you would not want those people unrepresented in Congress.
More Alan Kooi Simpson Quotes
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A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.
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He’s a million rubber bands in his resilience.
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It doesn’t matter is you call it ‘Obama-care’ or ‘Elvis Presley care’ or ‘I-don’t-care care.’ It cannot sustain itself in its present form.
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The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
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I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. I’m an Alan Simpson Republican.
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I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans.
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Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.
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Nonetheless, GAO’s conclusion that employer sanctions had somehow caused employment discrimination was contradicted by GAO’s own Chief of Methodology, who criticized the GAO report.
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If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.
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And I have come to realize that “gay” is an artificial category when it comes to measuring a man or woman’s on-the-job performance or commitment to shared goals.
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Reagan didn’t put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.
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Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
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We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party.
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Let us stop skewing the whole process by taking some folks who are not truly refugees in order simply to meet our foreign policy needs or domestic policy demands.
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It says little about the person. Our differences and prejudices pale next to our historic challenge.
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