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
George Washington might have become our king, but chose not to. His governing idea was that government is our servant because we are inherently free. It is an idea too many in government today forget.
The unemployment numbers are down to the lowest in 25 years.... The principle credit goes to Janet Reno, who continued to appoint special prosecutors.
Because the American people champion liberty, more people in the world live free today than at any time in history. Yet, there is more to be done and it is America who will lead the way.
Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.
America's Christian conservative movement is confronted with this divide: small-government advocates who want to practice their faith independent of heavy-handed government versus big-government sympathizers who want to impose their version of 'righteousness' on others through the hammer of law.... Our movement must avoid the temptations of power and those who would twist the good intentions of Christian voters to support policies that undermine freedom and grow government.
The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.
Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.
The arrangement was simply FreedomWorks paid Glenn Beck money and Glenn Beck said nice things about FreedomWorks on the air. I saw that a million dollars went to Beck this past year, that was the annual expenditure. I put it down now as basically as paid advertising for FreedomWorks by Beck.
Conservatives have a deeper intellect and tend to have occupations of the brain in fields like engineering, science, and economics. Liberals, on the other hand, tend to flock to occupations of the heart.
We should not say to our sons and daughters, if you fall in love, and if you should marry, we will punish you, ... We should bring and end to that.
We're going to continue to insist we can do more, ... You have ample room for tax reductions that are larger.
Whether it's reducing a particular tax or reforming the entire tax code, the issue is fairness,
Whether that comes from work between Norwood and the White House, or whether it comes from our work here in the House in getting the votes for this bill that we think is the right answer, or wherever it comes from, we will do the right thing.
Whatever happens, it will take years to repair the damage President Clinton has done to his office and his country,