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"A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities."  — Walter Bagehot

Alan K. Simpson Quotes

Type: Politician   |    Date of Birth: 1931-09-02   |    Year of Death:    |    Nationality:
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
Alan K. Simpson

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.
Alan K. Simpson

He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president.
Alan K. Simpson

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.
Alan K. Simpson

Here we can brag and bluster and blather and almost like a comic book character you could invent, Captain Bombast, pull the cape around the shoulders and shout the magic words, "Get him." And rise above it all in a blast of hot air.
Alan K. Simpson

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
Alan K. Simpson

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.
Alan K. Simpson

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.
Alan K. Simpson

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.
Alan K. Simpson

Welcome to the pit and the great hunters who have been out to tack the pelt of Bill Rehnquist on the wall of the den.
Alan K. Simpson

You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country.
Alan K. Simpson

You'd like to stick it in his gazoo.
Alan K. Simpson


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