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 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

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

I'm going to get to that, but one of the things when you do what you're talking about, that bull-in-the-china-shop mentality of just spending money out of control and it's a bailout for big businesses, bailout for Wall Street, bailout for…

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Jun 14, 2010

What would be the first step in living within your means? Would it not be putting a realistic budget together, perhaps?

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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

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

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Jun 14, 2010

I promised the gentleman that we did have a chart that was taking a look at these foreign countries. We've taken a look at Greece, and Greece has been in the news because it has just created shock waves in Europe as to how it has been…

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Jun 9, 2010

Thank you for that insight and the wisdom that you have shared with us. This is a graph of actually what happens over time. And this is this effect I was talking about. You know, when you were flying those old-fashioned airplanes and you…

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Jun 9, 2010

I really appreciate the gentleman for joining me tonight. We, in a way, as Americans have got two choices here. One choice is the path to freedom, and the other path is the path of servitude to Big Brother government. Every solution that…

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Jun 9, 2010

The thing is, you and I are not talking about something that is speculative or based on theory. These graphs are ending in 2010. These are actual numbers. This is what has happened, and it doesn't work. It didn't work for FDR, and it's not…

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Jun 9, 2010

I am very concerned about our discussion tonight because I am afraid somebody may be watching and they are thinking, oh, my goodness, there isn't any hope, things are terrible and bad. Yeah, we are in a big financial mess because we have…

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