Don Nickles
Don Nickles
Donald Lee "Don" Nicklesis an American politician who was a Republican United States Senator from Oklahoma from 1981 until 2005. He was considered both a fiscal and a social conservative. After retiring from the Senate, he founded The Nickles Group, a lobbying firm...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 December 1948
CountryUnited States of America
jobs people news
I hope there will be some good news and some good profits, and people will realize we have a lot of outstanding executives, and a lot of companies that are doing a good job, and those are good companies to invest in.
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Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.
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My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.
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I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest.
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I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.
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If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.
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I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.
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But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.
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[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news
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And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.
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It's probably the most expensive, intrusive regulation ever promulgated certainly by the Department of Labor, maybe by government entirely. It's costs are in the billion and billions of dollars.
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What he said then is just as true today: We have to employ our talents, our technology, and all our capabilities toward building a defensive system.
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If you really believe the number one priority of our government is the protection of our people, then the idea of being defenseless against an intercontinental ballistic missile or any other type of weapon system that puts us in jeopardy is not acceptable.
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If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible.