Political Quotes

W. Todd Akin

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Quotes by year · 20102012552 total · peak 2010 (426)
2010: 426 quotes2011: 101 quotes2012: 25 quotes
Apr 14, 2010

Assurance to our enemies. But the second thing was the idea that somehow we are going to move toward this world without nukes, and the way we are going to do it is to reduce not only our number of nuclear weapons but reduce our development…

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Apr 14, 2010

Okay, so it seems to me we have got a couple of different issues here that you brought up. The first question is, does it even make sense for us to do the ``what if'' question? If somebody does this, this, and this, well, we are not going…

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Apr 14, 2010

So just stop for a minute. Let's do a what-if, because that's apparently what this treaty is trying to define, these what-ifs. So some country has maybe signed agreements that they're not going to develop biological weapons. They do that…

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Apr 14, 2010

First of all, the President said all of the options are on the table. And here we go again seeing him say one thing and doing the exact opposite. It reminds me of a question. I'm a pretty old geezer. I've been around here for a while. I…

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Apr 14, 2010

We're about to start on a journey on an interesting topic of discussion and one that has hit the papers and one that could very much affect the shaping of how the world develops and the safety of the world. And that is the new discussion…

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Apr 14, 2010

From Syria to Hezbollah, scud missiles. So there was a weapons transfer to a group that is a pretty known terrorist group. They're not all part of this deal. So even if you could trust Russia, which I don't and which we have no historic…

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Apr 14, 2010

But shouldn't the focus be on U.S. security? Shouldn't that be the question? And are we going the wrong way?

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Apr 14, 2010

So there is a fundamental disconnect in the logic here somewhere. Understand that it's all for glorious and super ends and supposed to be a good deal and all, but how does it specifically help us and how does it increase U.S. security…

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Mar 17, 2010

Okay. So let me just see if I get this right. You're a medical doctor. You went all through med school. You've been practicing a number of years. You enjoy what you're doing. Old people come to you that need medical attention. You don't…

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Mar 17, 2010

So in other words, what's going on is if you tell people with this system they can have anything they want, you're going to have a tremendous level of demand, which is what we see in the other countries after this gets going, and then you…

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Mar 17, 2010

And you're already looking at, most people are looking in their district at a 10 percent unemployment rate. We're looking here at a bill that's going to cost trillions of dollars, 500 million jobs, a government takeover

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Mar 17, 2010

I mean 5 million jobs. Excuse me. That would really be something. And a government, a major government takeover, and yet what do we have for the quality of results to expect in that we've seen it done in other countries and in the State of…

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