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"Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great."
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"Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests."
"Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt."
"The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself."
"The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals."
"A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad."
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"I believe it's time to put our best ideas on the table and work toward a bipartisan solution, with the single goal of leaving the Social Security system stronger than we found it."
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