20 Random Quotes From Alan K. Simpson

20 Random Quotes From Alan K. Simpsone

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

— Alan K. Simpson

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

My parole officer always believed in my capacity for redemption, even when my actions did not inspire confidence.

— Alan K. Simpson

Money's dominance over politics isn't merely one problem of many our country faces. It is the problem! It is a growing crisis that prevents us from tackling anything else.

— Alan K. Simpson

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

Without the confidence to know our democracy is functioning properly, we risk more disillusionment, more cynicism, and even more public apathy toward the entire system.

— Alan K. Simpson

I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.

— Alan K. Simpson

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience.

— Alan K. Simpson

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

I am living proof that youth possess a unique capacity to grow and change - that the child who seems hopeless today could go on to change the world.

— Alan K. Simpson

The AARP is a group of 3.8 million Americans bound together by a common love of airline discounts and insurance discounts.

— Alan K. Simpson

If children who commit crimes are not given the opportunity of a second chance, they may die in prison for acts made before having developed the cognitive and emotional skills needed to make informed and smart decisions and choices.

— Alan K. Simpson

Voluntary public funding of elections solves the free speech 'problem' with more speech instead of more regulation: by giving qualified candidates who show broad-based constituent support enough matching public funds to mount a credible campaign.

— Alan K. Simpson

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

In World War II, a British mathematician named Alan Turing led the effort to crack the Nazis' communication code. He mastered the complex German enciphering machine, helping to save the world, and his work laid the basis for modern computer science. Does it matter that Turing was gay?

— Alan K. Simpson

The concept of government of, by, and for the people isn't just a platitude. It's the moral construction of our nation. It's in our bones.

— Alan K. Simpson

He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president.

— Alan K. Simpson

Restoring and maintaining a great nation's fiscal health will require not just sound arguments and an engaged public but something more. It will require an electoral system that encourages our representatives to place the long-term interests of the public ahead of parochial special interests.

— Alan K. Simpson

Stemming the tide of special interest campaign cash - and restoring fiscal responsibility in Congress - is no easy task. But there is one place where concerned citizens in both parties can begin: Changing the source of money that funds all campaigns.

— Alan K. Simpson

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

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