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 23, 2010

The funny thing is, the very words they spoke kind of come back to condemn them. They're kind of condemning themselves because here's the Democratic whip, Congressman Hoyer, he's saying, Budget is the most basic responsibility of…

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Jun 23, 2010

And he did spend too much money. In fact, you and I, gentleman, voted ``no'' on some of the things he wanted to spend money on. His worst budget, though, was when Speaker Pelosi was in charge of this Congress in 2008, right here. That was…

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Jun 23, 2010

Yes. Now an average guy on the street--let's just say they're reading some newspaper headlines over the last 18 months. Now what's the impression they get? First of all, there's this huge bailout, a Wall Street bailout. So you get these…

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Jun 23, 2010

Well, you know, the thing that strikes me--and maybe it's because I'm an engineer and I see it this way. For most Americans I know, if you've got this big hole in the middle of the gulf and if it's pouring out all of this oil all over the…

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Jun 23, 2010

It's got to be terribly, terribly frustrating. As I took a look at it, my daughter actually was taking a biology class and she did a paper on the whole oil spill and some of the different technologies for mitigating all this really raunchy…

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Jun 23, 2010

I don't really naturally like to be dumping on people for mismanaging something, but this is so outrageous. I mean, the only thing that could top the outrageousness of BP is the outrageousness of the administration to be sitting here 2…

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Jun 23, 2010

I know America likes to win, but I don't know that we want to do better than Hugo Chavez. That's not exactly where most Americans want to be going, I don't think.

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Jun 23, 2010

The Federal agency said they didn't shut them down. Yet, in fact, they weren't telling the truth. They did shut them down.

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Jun 23, 2010

And that's a historic fact that he was a Communist. And Obama studied under him, right?

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Jun 23, 2010

Wait. The President approved the sand barrier plan that we've been waiting a month to get approved, and now it's been shut down by the Federal Government?

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Jun 23, 2010

The thing that struck me about it was--because I heard about this sand barrier thing. I mean there are a lot of different ways you could try to mitigate the oil that is in the water. There are dispersants. You can put hay in the water…

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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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