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.
ALAN KOOI SIMPSONNow 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.
More Alan Kooi Simpson Quotes
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There are three days that are really slow for restaurants – Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.
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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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In 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.
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If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.
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Here is what she said, ‘I believe the truth is that we have no strong causal link between IRCA and discrimination.
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There has to be a better way to meet those needs and demands than we are doing now.
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I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don’t believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.
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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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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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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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I think it is embarrassing to all of us who truly know the mission of the Refugee Act.
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Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.
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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.
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It says little about the person. Our differences and prejudices pale next to our historic challenge.
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And in [my] view it is just as likely that the discrimination we found has always been there, or that it is spurious, as that IRCA has caused it.’
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