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. Alan K. Simpson Read Quote
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. Alan K. Simpson Read Quote
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all. Alan K. Simpson Read Quote
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word. Alan K. Simpson Read Quote
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters. Alan K. Simpson Read Quote
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. Alan K. Simpson Read Quote
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. Alan K. Simpson Read Quote
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. Alan K. Simpson Read Quote