Dick Armey
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"Richard Keith" ""Dick"" "Armey" is a former United States House of Representatives/U.S. Representative from Texas' (1985–2003) and Party Leaders of the United States House of Representatives/House Majority Leader (1995–2003). He was one of the engineers of the "Republican Revolution" of the 1990s, in which Republican Party (United States)/Republicans were elected to majorities of both houses of United States Congress/Congress for the first time in four decades. Armey was one of the chief authors of the Contract with America. Armey is also an author and former economics professor. Since his retirement from Congress, he has worked as a consultant, advisor, and lobbyist.

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My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him.

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If we love freedom, we must protect democratic Taiwan.

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Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

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Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

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You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

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We will wait until we can have a clear understanding that we will pass a law that will help families.

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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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Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

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When asked, "If you had been in President Clinton's place would you have resigned?" Armey's reply:"If I had been in the president's place I would not have gotten the chance to resign. I would have been lying in a pool of my own blood, looking up, and listening to my wife ask, 'How do you reload this son of a bitch'?"

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