Dick Armey Quotes

#1. I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president,

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#2. Because the American people champion liberty, more people in the world live free today than at any time in history. Yet, there is more to be done and it is America who will lead the way.

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#3. This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on the streets of Mogadishu in the absence of a plan. It broke our heart.

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#4. Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

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#5. Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

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#6. I don't believe America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation.

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#7. Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.

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#8. The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

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#9. Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow,

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#10. The reason families need two incomes today is not to support themselves but to support the government.

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#11. Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.

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#12. At least if we don't close down the Environmental Protection Agency, we at least put a snaffle bit on them and ride the pony down.

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#13. If I were in the President's place, I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood
hearing Mrs. Armey, standing over me, saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'

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#14. The American Dream is not to own your own home, but to get your kids out of it.

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#15. The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.

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#16. The arrangement was simply FreedomWorks paid Glenn Beck money and Glenn Beck said nice things about FreedomWorks on the air. I saw that a million dollars went to Beck this past year, that was the annual expenditure. I put it down now as basically as paid advertising for FreedomWorks by Beck.

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#17. Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

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#18. Our current tax system is broken.

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#19. Conservatives have a deeper intellect and tend to have occupations of the brain in fields like engineering, science, and economics. Liberals, on the other hand, tend to flock to occupations of the heart.

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#20. My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him.

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#21. You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

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#22. I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks is the longest-standing, most active organization within this movement.

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#23. [T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom, just waiting for us to pick the whole thing up and heave it away. It has to happen. Free people can put up with such laws only for so long.

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#24. The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions.

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#25. We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.

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#26. Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

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#27. I would be looking up from a pool of blood and hearing my wife ask 'How do I reload this thing'.

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