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Three groups spend other people’s money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
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The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.
Dick Armey
Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.
Dick Armey
Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.
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I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president.
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The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.
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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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Our current tax system is broken.
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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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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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Demagoguery beats data in making public policy.
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The United States has an absolute duty to attack terrorism where it lives and breeds, in order to prevent future attacks on American citizens around the world. The American people stand united in the face of terrorism. The men and women who undertook this mission deserve our praise and prayers.
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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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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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[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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We’re going to have a tax cut. Today’s American family is overtaxed at all levels.
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After months of lies, the president [Bill Clinton] has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has sent Americans into battle for the right reason. The suspicion some people have about the president’s motives in this attack is itself a powerful argument for impeachment.
Dick Armey
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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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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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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