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Gilbert Gutknecht: “The status quo doesn't live here anymore. And hopefully we have come to a new world here in Washington. And there is…”

On the recordJuly 11, 1995
The status quo doesn't live here anymore. And hopefully we have come to a new world here in Washington. And there is going to be no turning back. In fact, the Vikings when they would invade the foreign country, they would burn their ships so they understood that there was no turning back and there was only one way they were going to leave and that was victorious. And the battles that we have in front of us, whether it be on regulatory reform, ethics reform, campaign finance reform, downsizing the Federal Government, bringing real sanity to the way the Federal Government spends our tax dollars, and more importantly our grandchildren's tax dollars, I think we have to keep that reformist attitude that there is no turning back. We cannot go back. There is only one way that we can leave.
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Gilbert Gutknecht
Republican · Minnesota
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the need for reform in government and the importance of moving forward without returning to the status quo.

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