Political Quotes

W. Todd Akin

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Quotes by year · 20102012552 total · peak 2010 (426)
2010: 426 quotes2011: 101 quotes2012: 25 quotes
Jul 21, 2010

Wow. And then, of course, the economic uncertainty as you're saying. When you see the government taking over the auto industry and the insurance industry and then going to take over the health care industry, that makes people that…

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Jul 21, 2010

Well, I'll tell you something. I sometimes wish the Democrats would just learn from themselves and from their own mistakes, you know, because here is a guy, Henry Morgenthau, who was a contemporary of little Lord Keynes, and he tries this…

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Jul 21, 2010

So what we have seen, according to what you're saying, is very clear. First of all, you've got the tremendous, tremendous level of spending, which is exactly the wrong thing. And what is happening with that tremendous level of spending…

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Jul 21, 2010

That's why I said I have a hard time understanding how you do this with a straight face. We've just heard of all these fantastic Democrat programs that are working fantastically, that are going along, and everything is fine. Yet we're…

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Jul 21, 2010

Yes. Well, if you recall, in 2001, the Republicans inherited a recession. So they had to do something about it. As President Bush was running for office the first time, he said, what we've got to do is cut taxes and cut spending. So what…

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Jul 21, 2010

Oh, man. It wasn't just the Bush administration that brought Hurricane Katrina. It brought every bad thing that ever happened in the whole world.

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Jul 14, 2010

It's one of those things, it's sort of an inevitable law. And you can't just let the government continue to grow and grow and grow, because eventually it takes over everything like a cancer.

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Jul 14, 2010

Don't you go giving people ideas here in D.C. Somebody will try and do that you know.

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Jul 14, 2010

Yes. So the point is, what do we do here in America? We basically have to stop thinking that the Federal Government is God and that it's going to solve every problem. We've got the Federal Government now, they're into the automobile…

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Jul 14, 2010

I think you and I have a pretty good idea what they're liable to say, because they have enough business sense to know what's happened historically. They know socialism doesn't work, and they know what you've got to do is as the jobs and…

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Jul 14, 2010

Well, you know, that is a heartwarming story, and it shows the basic nature of your 10-year-old son. He understands that somewhere along the line, that he was made to do something, and even that God maybe has a plan for him, and his…

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Jul 14, 2010

This is what was promised with the government bailout. You know, we are going to do the stimulus bill, $800 billion. And if you do the stimulus bill, these are the numbers the administration and the Democrats said--this is what's going to…

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