Dick Armey Quotes

• Three groups spend other people’s money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

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• Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

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• Our current tax system is broken.

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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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• We’re going to have a tax cut. Today’s American family is overtaxed at all levels.

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

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

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• It is like relying on the Flintstones for an understanding of the Stone Age.

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• Entitlement spending—the politics of greed wrapped in the language of love.

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

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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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• You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

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Dick Armey (16)

Birth:	7th July, 1940
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Economist, Politician, Professor, Writer

About

Richard Keith "Dick" Armey was born in Cando, North Dakota. He is an American politician, economist, professor and writer. He is a former U.S. Representative from Texas' 26th congressional district and House Majority Leader. He graduated from Jamestown College with a B.A. and then received an M.A. from the University of North Dakota and a PhD in economics from the University of Oklahoma. He was an assistant professor of economics at West Texas State University from 1967 to 1968, at Austin College from 1968 to 1972, and at North Texas State from 1972 to 1977.

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