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

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

What has puzzled me and actually made me pretty frustrated is it seems that the administration is more interested in affixing blame than they are in fixing the problem. I recall that President Bush took a whale of a beating after Hurricane…

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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 here's the guy in charge of the budget, Congressman Spratt, If you can't budget, you can't govern. So this is what they're saying in 2006. And now we take a look at what's coming forward and we say, Where's the budget? Here's the Hill…

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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

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 14, 2010

So local spending, the average family of four, is a hundred thousand bucks of debt, per family of four?

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Jun 14, 2010

I think it's important to take a look on a bar graph as to what we're looking at here. I know that President Bush--and as a Republican, I heard this frequently--he was criticized for spending too much money. And I voted against some of…

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Jun 14, 2010

So that was this one. But what happens when you put Chairman Spratt together with President Obama?

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Jun 14, 2010

You know, there's a certain point where if you spend too much money and you try and put a budget together, the train is going to come off the track. I think that's where we are, and that's, I think, the reason why the Democrats said, yeah…

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Jun 14, 2010

Certainly as a medical doctor you have been looking very closely over the last year at one of a whole series of these taxes. These things effectively work as taxes. Let's just take, if you will, health care out of the equation, whether…

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Jun 14, 2010

This gives a little bit of a sense of progress on a 20-year increment. This is 1970. The foreign holdings of our debt were 5 percent. This is who owns our debt. Foreign holdings were 5 percent in 1970. Jump forward 20 years to 1990…

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