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
every year there is that magic moment when everybody says we can agree. That moment is at hand. We do not want to deny our members the opportunity to seize that moment.
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.
Americans understand it is wrong to tax marriage, ... We will have to put it up on the floor next year and have a president who will sign it.
The unemployment numbers are down to the lowest in 25 years.... The principle credit goes to Janet Reno, who continued to appoint special prosecutors.
[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom, just waiting for us to pick the whole thing up and heave it away. It has to happen. Free people can put up with such laws only for so long.
We can't be constrained to the $1.6 trillion package that the Bush people put together a year ago...we can do more.
Although a federal department might claim to be Year 2000 'compliant,' the claim hasn't been independently tested, ... That's like children being able to grade their own tests and everyone getting a perfect score.
Information is the lifeblood of a market, ... It is also poison to dictators.
still working with members. This is so important that we'll take whatever time we need to get it right.
That is not a good growth part of the package, ... I prioritized all the recommendations we had in terms of potential to create growth... and that was way down the list. When you've got better priorities, you should enact better priorities.
If language is properly written with respect to instant checks at gun shows, I think I could support that.
It's time really for the White House to send their people up here. Let's get to the tables. Let's get it negotiated. And let's get it done. It's altogether possible that would be done if they'll just come to work.
It won't happen as long as Clinton is president,
We will set aside more money for Social Security than what the president did in his budget; there's not a doubt about it.