Alan K. Simpson

Politician

1931-09-02 – 2025-03-14

Quotes by Alan K. Simpson

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

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• If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.

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• 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.

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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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• 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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• He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president.

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• Peer pressure is a huge part of youth behavior, whether one grows up in Washington, D.C., or Cody, Wyo.

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• Rather than serving in the U.S. Senate for almost 20 years or having so many other wonderful life experiences, I could have served a longer sentence in prison for some of the stupid, reckless things I did as a teenager.

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• When a young person is sent 'up the river,' we need to remember that all rivers can change course.

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