Political Quotes

Mark Neumann

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Quotes by year · 19951998353 total · peak 1997 (186)
1995: 12 quotes1996: 47 quotes1997: 186 quotes1998: 108 quotes
May 21, 1998

it seems to have taken 5 nuclear blasts in India, combined with stunning revelations about campaign contributions from Communist China into the Democrat Party to send America a wake-up call. With each passing day, the China scandal gets…

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May 20, 1998

of all the scandals coming out of the White House, this scandal is perhaps the most disturbing of all. I am talking about the shocking revelation that the White House is helping the Communist government develop its missile system. Do we…

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Apr 30, 1998

What this is really all about, what we are talking about today is allowing poor and moderate income families to make the same and have the same choices in where they send their kids to school as middle and upper income families. I think…

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Apr 23, 1998

The good news is, if we get to a point where this does keep going, we keep spending under control and revenue just keeps growing like it has been for the last 3 or 4 or 5 years and it just keeps doing what it has been doing, these $250…

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Apr 23, 1998

The amazing thing to me is when you understand what the policy of the IMF is. They have gone into these countries. They have encouraged these countries to devalue their dollar. Let us translate that so our folks understand exactly what…

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Apr 23, 1998

I rise to extend a special welcome to a group of students that are out here, about 100 students from the Juneau School. It is a school where parents are actively involved. There are students here from Juneau, Hustisford, and Dodgeland, and…

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Apr 23, 1998

I thought I would dedicate tonight's special order to the incredible things that are happening here in this community. I could not get on a plane home because we got out of session too late tonight, so I am kind of like putting myself back…

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Apr 23, 1998

Mr. Speaker, we all grew up with the same thing, and my father and mother told me many times when I saw a great bargain, my father would always say, as yours did, just remember, nothing is free. Nothing is free. You always pay something…

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Apr 23, 1998

And that is the thing that our agriculture industry needs to understand. If this organization goes in with this policy of devaluation and they devalue the dollar in Indonesia by 50 percent, that effectively makes our farm products that…

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Apr 23, 1998

We have spent an hour here tonight talking about some of the incredible things going on in this city from IMF funding to the strange way that we found support in this Congress for IMF funding today. We found that people that voted against…

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Apr 23, 1998

I sincerely hope that the American people will pay attention to this particular situation and to the party that is going on over there at the White House tonight, and I really mean this sincerely. I think every American citizen who…

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Apr 23, 1998

I just want to bring up another point here because that party in the White House tonight celebrating these tax increases; the gasoline tax increase, the increase on seniors, increase on small business owners, it is so incredible that they…

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Apr 23, 1998

I think the leadership of our Nation needs to set the example and needs to be an example that people both around the world as well as our own teenagers and our own kids can look to. This shows the level of the stock market. This is between…

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Apr 23, 1998

We do not have to be pessimistic in America. We do not have to say our best days are behind us. ... We can go out and play the second half of this game, the second half of our lives, if you like, and we can make sure that by 20 or 30 years…

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Apr 23, 1998

Does the gentleman know what they are saying over there? They are saying that this tax increase somehow balanced the budget. I have brought a couple of notes with me.

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Apr 23, 1998

Reclaiming for just a minute, I do want to point out, interest rates peaked out in November of 1994 when we were first elected. As Main Street America started to understand we were serious, they got all the way down here. It was almost a…

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Apr 23, 1998

That is what is so incredible about the party that they are holding in the White House tonight to celebrate the tax increase. For goodness sakes, if we look at what has happened, the red shows how fast spending was going up before we got…

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Apr 23, 1998

we appreciate the gentleman from Colorado being with us. As we started tonight, we talked about the incredible things, and I think my colleagues would all like to be home in their home districts where it seems that common sense has a…

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Apr 23, 1998

The reason for that is very clear. The reason they raised taxes is so they could spend more money in Washington. Remember, this is a picture that starts in 1995, two years after the tax increase. The deficits were nowhere near under…

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Apr 21, 1998

The single most important determining factor in whether or not a teenager is going to be involved with drugs is the involvement of the parent in the teenager's life. The right answers to these problems are empowering our parents. That is…

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Apr 21, 1998

When I was in our district and I toured one of the centers where they help people leave the welfare and get into the workforce, they did not talk to those families about the first job or only the first job they were going to get. At this…

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Apr 21, 1998

I think the other thing that needs to be kept in mind here, from 1969 to today, we have had other strong economies but never got a balanced budget. Lord only knows, we have had more than enough tax increases between 1969 and today. That is…

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Apr 21, 1998

I think at this point if we could, we have been talking a lot about these economic problems and the solutions, and I think we have hit on the three economic problems facing America. We must restore the Social Security system. Our seniors…

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Apr 21, 1998

there are two other benefits that I would like to point out in this plan. If there is a 20-year-old today and he started putting money into this plan and his account grew and at age 45, for whatever reason, something happened, he is…

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Apr 21, 1998

Let us be very, very specific. Let us assume that this young lady that my colleague talked to at the gas station had three kids. Next year, when they figure out their taxes and their family and they get to the bottom line, they subtract…

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