Alan K. Simpson Quotes

• I come from a state where gun control is just how steady you hold your weapon.

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• Like giving dry birth to a porcupine.

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• If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.

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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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• You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country.

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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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• 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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• He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president.

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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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Alan K. Simpson (9)

Birth:	2nd September, 1931
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Alan Kooi Simpson is an American politician who served from 1979 to 1997 as a United States Senator from Wyoming as a member of the Republican Party. His father, Milward L. Simpson, was also a member of the U.S. Senate from Wyoming and a former Wyoming governor as well. Simpson was appointed in 2010 to co-chair President Barack H. Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina.

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