Dixie Lee Ray Quotes

#1. It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.

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#2. He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property.

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#3. The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

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#4. Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle.

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#5. We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical.

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#6. I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.

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#7. I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.

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#8. A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

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#9. I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events.

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#10. Anything that the private sector can do, the government can do it worse.

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#11. I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

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#12. Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

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#13. It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true.

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#14. The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

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#15. Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.

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#16. No question about that, the radicals are in charge.

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#17. Everybody is exposed to radiation. A little bit more or a little bit less is of no consequence..

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#18. They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.

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#19. The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

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#20. Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

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#21. There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

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#22. We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.

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