Alan K. Simpson
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"Alan Kooi Simpson" is an American politician who served from 1979 to 1997 as a United States Senate/United States Senator from Wyoming as a member of the Republican Party (United States)/Republican Party. His father, Milward L. Simpson, was also a member of the U.S. Senate from Wyoming (1962–1967) and a former governor of Wyoming/Wyoming governor (1955–1959) as well.

Simpson was appointed in 2010 to co-chair President Barack Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina.

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In your country club, your church and business, about 15 percent of the people are screwballs, lightweights and boobs and you would not want those people unrepresented in Congress.

This is one of the greatest thrills of my life. It's a wonderful college where they can teach you everything from Shakespeare to welding, and I'm just glad to be a part of it.

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.

When it's all through after a few days, people are going to laugh at the media for their overreaction.

There is more awareness among parents and families and teachers that if we want children to succeed in school, we need to provide good experiences in kindergarten and earlier.

Stonewalling, wiretapping, cover-up, Lord's sake, if there isn't one of us here at this table that hasn't dabbled in that mystery.

For many of these communities there was no plan.

He's been very dismissive of the media all his public life ... There's a certain diffidence. It's not arrogance, [more like] why should I waste my time?

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

That means more disposable income, which results in more visits to restaurants and more restaurant sales.

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

You ask about their temperament, demeanor — you don't get into the issues.

Dick Cheney is one of the most skilled shots I know, and they'll make fun of it forever.

I think we have to set a date for withdrawal. The January elections (in Iraq) are a natural time.

Whatever he does, Dick will do it his own way, because whatever he does, it will be the subject of ridicule.

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.