Donald Lee Nickles Quotes

• When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.

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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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• Well, we want to make sure there’s not securities fraud.

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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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• My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.

   

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  Jim mentioned I was an ALEC member, and that’s correct.

   

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• It bothers me to read the comments of leaders of the Hamas and others who hate America that their goal is to have more weaponry capable of delivering all types of weapons of mass destruction.

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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.

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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 people are going to be cooking the books, you’re in trouble.

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• I’m always a little cautious, there’s a few amendments that are out there that I think could do some damage, so I’ve been more concerned about over regulating, going too far.

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• I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense.

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• I think there’s bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.

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• I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

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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 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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• I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

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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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• I always intended to return to the private sector.

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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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Donald Lee Nickles (23)

Birth:	6th December, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Donald Lee "Don" Nickles was born in Ponca City, Oklahoma. He  is an American politician who was a Republican United States Senator from Oklahoma from 1981 until 2005. After the Senate, he founded The Nickles Group, a lobbying firm. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in business administration in 1971.

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