Dick Armey
Dick Armey
Richard Keith "Dick" Armeyis an American politician. He is a former U.S. Representative from Texas' 26th congressional districtand House Majority Leader. He was one of the engineers of the "Republican Revolution" of the 1990s, in which Republicans were elected to majorities of both houses of 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 July 1940
CountryUnited States of America
Demagoguery beats data in making public policy.
We will divide the four questions into separate votes and barring any parliamentary antics, it should be completed Thursday evening or perhaps Friday morning,
trying to fit the president's details into our principles, and it's a very difficult fit to be made. But I think we can get there.
Even if we could afford to cover every single drug bill, we shouldn't try, ... Consumers who can afford to do so should pay the small routine bills.
The president's $1.6 trillion plan should be a floor, not a ceiling.
What this 'sunset the code' bill does is ... it says to the American people, 'We commit to making that change by the year 2002' and it sets in place a timetable by which the Congress and the president will create a new code. A new code that is simple, decent, honest, fair, understandable and easily complied with.
We're perfectly willing to spend more money on educating American people if the control of that money is in the local communities, under the local school boards,
We will set aside more money for Social Security than what the president did in his budget; there's not a doubt about it.
We will wait until we can have a clear understanding that we will pass a law that will help families,
Tom DeLay has not even engaged in a formal vote count,
We're trying to make good law and we're expecting it to be signed,
I don't believe a side-agreement is necessary or will be necessary,
Mister President, let's get together with our respective parties and ... get this bill moving, ... It's about enforcement.
My flat tax proposal is still alive and well with the American people and it's on its way to becoming the law of the land before I retire from Congress,