Mickey Edwards
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"Marvin Henry "Mickey" Edwards" is a former Republican Party (United States)/Republican United States House of Representatives/congressman who served Oklahoma's Oklahoma's 5th congressional district/5th congressional district from 1977 to 1993.

Edwards was a founding trustee of the Heritage Foundation and national chairman of the American Conservative Union. He taught at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School and was a regular commentator for National Public Radio/NPR's All Things Considered.

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Lobbying is a constitutionally protected activity because the opposite of lobbying is to treat public officials as demigods.

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This is at a scale that is really shocking. There is a certain kind of arrogance that in the past you might not have had. They were so supremely confident that there didn't seem to be any kind of moral compass here.

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The president got a pretty good wake-up call. He needs to stop thinking about his grand legacy and being the all-time hero of the Republicans and concentrate on doing the job he was elected to do. He really has to get a grip on his administration.

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He was giving a speech as if the nation were disheartened and worried and had lost its spirit, but that's not what people were thinking. They were thinking, why did the government screw up?

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All 24 of these young men and women have reputations for intelligence, thoughtfulness, and the ability to work effectively across party lines, ... The common denominator is that they are among the young officials most likely to achieve even higher positions of public responsibility in the years ahead. They truly represent America's next generation of political leaders.

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The president is always somewhere on the horizon in any midterm election, and in this one it might very well be more than the usual referendum on the president. Bush could be a heavy shadow in this election.

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The Bush administration is certainly not the first administration to do this kind of thing, ... but they seem much more heavy-handed about it.

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