Political Quotes

On the recordMay 30, 2012
It is as if the train is moving and they ran and jumped in the engineer's position and said, hey, look, I'm at the front of the train.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

Editor's note · Context

Lankford criticizes the current administration for taking credit for increased production they didn't initiate.

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