114 Quotes by Dick Armey

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    We've bent over backwards to make this bill acceptable to the president, ... We also listened to the president and made some bothersome changes to the bill to accommodate his concerns.

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    We should not say to our sons and daughters, if you fall in love, and if you should marry, we will punish you, ... We should bring and end to that.

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    We will divide the four questions into separate votes and barring any parliamentary antics, it should be completed Thursday evening or perhaps Friday morning,

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    trying to fit the president's details into our principles, and it's a very difficult fit to be made. But I think we can get there.

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    The president's $1.6 trillion plan should be a floor, not a ceiling.

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    What this 'sunset the code' bill does is ... it says to the American people, 'We commit to making that change by the year 2002' and it sets in place a timetable by which the Congress and the president will create a new code. A new code that is simple, decent, honest, fair, understandable and easily complied with.

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    We're perfectly willing to spend more money on educating American people if the control of that money is in the local communities, under the local school boards,

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