Dick Armey Quotes

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You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

Dick Armey

Success, Wisdom, Revenge

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

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Trust, Children, Government

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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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Lying, Blood, President

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George Washington might have become our king, but chose not to. His governing idea was that government is our servant because we are inherently free. It is an idea too many in government today forget.

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Kings, Government, Ideas

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

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Funny, Dream, Home

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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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Heart, Engineering, Hands

"Blair Snitch Project II" by Eric Umansky, www.slate.com. September 25, 2002.

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

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Party, Cherish, Abandoned

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

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Government, Two, Support

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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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Sound, Clinton, Marxist

Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. 1993.

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

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Stupid, Accidents

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In my view, immigrants today aren't any different from immigrants who have come to America throughout our nation's history. They bring new ideas, an entrepreneurial spirit and close family ties. They place a high value on education. And they are eager to achieve the American Dream. ... It's to our benefit to keep our doors open, and to keep enriching our economy and culture. I'd like to see America continue to do so.

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Dream, Doors, Views

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

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President, Vices, Vice President

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

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Average, Shelter, Libertarian

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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.

Dick Armey

Nice, Past, Air

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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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Snow, Dying, Jamestown

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

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Government, People, Decision

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Government is saying to the average citizen every January 1: 'For the next five months you'll be working for us, for goals we shall determine. Is that clear? After May 5 you may look after your own needs and ambitions, but report back to us next January. Now move along.' ... If nearly half of what you make is spent by someone else, that means that half your work time is spent working for someone else. Call me a radical, but I think that comes dangerously close to being a form of indentured servitude.

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Moving, Ambition, Mean

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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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Government, Years, Law

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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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Agency, Environmental, Ponies

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Demagoguery beats data in making public policy.

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Data, Beats, 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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Prayer, Men, Order

"A Quick Look At Reactions In Congress". www.cnn.com. August 20, 1998.

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America's Christian conservative movement is confronted with this divide: small-government advocates who want to practice their faith independent of heavy-handed government versus big-government sympathizers who want to impose their version of 'righteousness' on others through the hammer of law.... Our movement must avoid the temptations of power and those who would twist the good intentions of Christian voters to support policies that undermine freedom and grow government.

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Christian, Independent, Government

"Christians and Big Government - Why faith requires freedom". FreedomWorks (freedomworks.org), October 12, 2006.

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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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Mistake, Party, Player

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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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Cutting, Levels, Today

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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

Lying, Believe, People

"Impeachment Debate Postponed / House Republicans want to reschedule vote no later than Monday" by Marc Sandalow, www.sfgate.com. December 17, 1998.

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Born: July 7, 1940
Occupation: Former Majority leader
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