Alan K. Simpson Quotes

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Alan K. Simpson

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 2, 1931

The AARP is a group of 3.8 million Americans bound together by a common love of airline discounts and insurance discounts.

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Before holding elective office - 12 years in the Wyoming House of Representatives and 18 years in the U.S. Senate - I served a different type of time. I was on probation for a federal offense committed as a teenager.

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He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.

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If the need for comprehensive campaign finance reform was not already clear, the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United permitting unlimited corporate and union spending in campaigns certainly made it so in 2010.

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The concept of government of, by, and for the people isn't just a platitude. It's the moral construction of our nation. It's in our bones.

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Money's dominance over politics isn't merely one problem of many our country faces. It is the problem! It is a growing crisis that prevents us from tackling anything else.

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Stemming the tide of special interest campaign cash - and restoring fiscal responsibility in Congress - is no easy task. But there is one place where concerned citizens in both parties can begin: Changing the source of money that funds all campaigns.

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I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.

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Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

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Voluntary public funding of elections solves the free speech 'problem' with more speech instead of more regulation: by giving qualified candidates who show broad-based constituent support enough matching public funds to mount a credible campaign.

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Let us end 'don't ask, don't tell.'

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The person you are at 13 or 17 is not the person you are at 30, 40, or 50. Everyone old enough to look back on his or her teenage years knows this.

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I am living proof that youth possess a unique capacity to grow and change - that the child who seems hopeless today could go on to change the world.

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It was not until my 20s that I began to creep toward maturity.

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America's Founders were committed to a wide-open public forum in which all voices and perspectives could have a chance of being heard.

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