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Steve Southerland: I think if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it is a duck.

On the recordMarch 21, 2012
I think if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it is a duck.
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Steve Southerland
Florida

Editor's note · Context

Southerland uses a metaphor to suggest that the government's actions are questionable.

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