Political Quotes

W. Todd Akin

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Quotes by year · 20102012552 total · peak 2010 (426)
2010: 426 quotes2011: 101 quotes2012: 25 quotes
May 12, 2010

Wow, that's incredible. Now, that's 74 percent of what used to be private a couple of years ago has been nationalized, or at least under heavy national regulation and control?

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May 5, 2010

Do you think people want to be bailed out? Do you think people want their unemployment to be extended? Would they rather be sitting being unemployed, or would they rather have a good job with really good prospects and a bright future? I…

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May 5, 2010

And that is really what you are saying, is basically you are losing your freedom; a little bit here, a little bit here. You are losing your freedom, and pretty soon you feel frustrated, you feel angry, because you have some common sense…

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May 5, 2010

In expectation of this thing. So what you are saying is really not very outlandish, from a commonsense point of view. It is not like you are speculating and saying this thing is not going to work. We have seen European socialized medicine…

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May 5, 2010

The President says here that families across the country are tightening their belts and making tough decisions, the Federal Government should do the same. Yes, we should do the same, but what are we doing? Let's take a look at the…

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May 5, 2010

It seems like people think politics is complicated, and all this economic stuff is complicated. It doesn't have to be nearly as complicated as people think it is. For instance, take a look between the parties. The Democrats, their basic…

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May 5, 2010

Right. You know, I appreciate your bringing that up because one of the things that Americans intuitively understand, they are not really buying this idea that by spending tons of money the Federal Government is going to make everything…

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May 5, 2010

It's a pleasure to be able to join you and my colleagues and others who are gathered here to talk about something that has been on our minds for some considerable time now--many months, even 1\1/2\ to 2 years--and that is the subject of…

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May 5, 2010

I asked a whole bunch of small business leaders--we had probably 30 or 40 of them, and we created a list of job killers... excessive taxation was the deal. Of course, what we have done is we have got, what is it, the people in the upper…

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May 5, 2010

Unlimited amounts of money and very low interest rates. So you have got lots of money with very low interest rates, and it comes down and starts to create these bubbles. So we really haven't fixed the job problem.

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May 5, 2010

The trouble is that it's people in your and my district that are going to get hung with the cost of this deal. They are the ones that are struggling to make ends meet. They are the ones whose families are having a hard time. They are the…

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May 5, 2010

2010 should be a little better year because of a weird thing. And that is the Bush cuts in capital gains expire next year. So if you have any capital gains in something, there is a huge incentive this year to sell whatever it is and get…

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