Alan K. Simpson Quotes

#1. 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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#2. He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.

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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

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#6. Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.

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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

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#10. I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. I'm an Alan Simpson Republican.

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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're a nation of immigrants and all of that. The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.

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#15. 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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#16. He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president.

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#17. If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

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#18. 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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#19. You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country.

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#20. 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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#21. Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.

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