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
I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks is the longest-standing, most active organization within this movement.
This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on the streets of Mogadishu in the absence of a plan. It broke our heart.
My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him.
We discovered that Elvis had left the building,
We can't be constrained to the $1.6 trillion package that the Bush people put together a year ago...we can do more.
We've bent over backwards to make this bill acceptable to the president, ... We also listened to the president and made some bothersome changes to the bill to accommodate his concerns.
The president came into the negotiations and wanted to spend as much as possible of the surplus. But I can tell you, Mr. and Mrs. America, for the most part, your surplus is still intact.
The president accepted our parameters -- not touching Social Security, not raising taxes,
What this 'sunset the code' bill does is ... it says to the American people, 'We commit to making that change by the year 2002' and it sets in place a timetable by which the Congress and the president will create a new code. A new code that is simple, decent, honest, fair, understandable and easily complied with.
We're perfectly willing to spend more money on educating American people if the control of that money is in the local communities, under the local school boards,
We will set aside more money for Social Security than what the president did in his budget; there's not a doubt about it.
Even $10 billion would be insufficient to begin fixing six years of Clinton-Gore neglect of armed forces,
every year there is that magic moment when everybody says we can agree. That moment is at hand. We do not want to deny our members the opportunity to seize that moment.
Tom DeLay has not even engaged in a formal vote count,