Political Quotes

W. Todd Akin

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Quotes by year · 20102012552 total · peak 2010 (426)
2010: 426 quotes2011: 101 quotes2012: 25 quotes
Jun 30, 2010

Let's get this straight. So what we're going to do is, we've got a hole in the ocean that's pouring out this really sticky, yucky oil. I mean, we're counting on BP to clog that up. We don't really have that good of a solution on the…

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Jun 30, 2010

This doesn't say Rush Limbaugh here. This says: The New York Times. This is the New York Times. Not exactly a conservative newspaper. September 11, 2003, the headline is: The Bush administration today recommended the most significant…

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Jun 30, 2010

Now wait a minute. Let's get this straight. This is a little confusing. A panel of, more or less, experts is put together. They're asked to come up with a recommendation. They come up with a recommendation, and the administration says…

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Jun 30, 2010

Yes. And that's one of the factors that totally destroys jobs--and that is the uncertainty factor. So if you want to ruin jobs, raise taxes a whole lot, create a lot of uncertainty, and then spend way beyond your means. That's what we're…

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Jun 30, 2010

I very much appreciate your starting off on a very sobering kind of note because I wanted to get to that question about, well, maybe budgets sound boring, but what does it mean? And I think you put that in graphic terms. You are saying…

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Jun 30, 2010

We're going to talk about an interesting subject here this evening, and one that might seem a little boring to start with but actually has tremendous ramifications, and that is the question and the subject of budgeting. Now, budgets are…

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Jun 30, 2010

This is Congressman Hoyer. And now we don't have a budget, and he is one of the leaders. Here we have the ranking member on the House Budget Committee, and he says, ``If you can't budget, you can't govern.'' Well, that's what they are…

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Jun 30, 2010

Unusual. And what are the implications of all of this? You know, the Congress didn't pass a budget, but the administration sent us a budget. This is kind of a complicated looking chart. But this isn't very complicated in a lot of ways…

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Jun 30, 2010

I think that Congress has tended--our job is to spend money. That's what Congress is designed to do. Of course we do too good a job of it. And the question is we have been overspending for a long time. We overspent when President Bush, we…

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Jun 30, 2010

And that tradition very much reflected the mindset of my parents' generation, the people that fought World War II. My father is 89 and was with Patton in the Army. But there was a general way of thinking in that generation. And the mindset…

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Jun 23, 2010

It seems like the pattern is that every single thing the administration does is to try to create an entitlement class, a victim class, a group of people that are totally dependent on the government. And perhaps the worst of all of those…

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Jun 23, 2010

I really appreciate you mentioning Star Parker. She is really a fun person. She has a great personality, is a lot of fun. She's cute, and she is very articulate. And she has an amazing story about how the government tried to trap her into…

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