Alan K. Simpson Quotes
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He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.
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There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
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If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.
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If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
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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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An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
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He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president.
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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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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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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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You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country.