Malcolm Wallop Quotes

• If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Garden, Horror Stories, Land

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• Today government touches everything in America and harms almost everything it touches. Federal, state, and local governments together spend 42 out of every 100 dollars we earn. Those who do the taxing and spending have long since ceased to work for the people as a whole. Rather, they work for themselves and for their clients-the education industry, the welfare culture, public-employee unions, etc.

  Malcolm Wallop

  America, Government, Long

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• I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Fighting, Thinking, Congress

  "Wyoming's Senator Wallop Won't Run in '94", www.nytimes.com. 1993.

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• Being American is not a matter of birth. We must practice it every day, lest we become something else.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Practice, Matter, Birth

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• Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Rights, Government, Doe

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• The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If its coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?

  Malcolm Wallop

  Crazy, Thinking, Government

  "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'The Great American Experiment'". Interview With Peter Evans, Helen Evans, www.ff.org. January 6, 2013.

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• We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Science, People, Important

  "Frontier Freedom: An Interview with Malcolm Wallop". Interview with Rick Henderson, William H. Mellor , Ill, reason.com. November 1995.

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• The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens with no choice but to protect themselves as best they can, they now try to take our guns away. In fact they blame us and our guns for crime. This is so wrong that it cannot be an honest mistake.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Mistake, Gun, Class

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• Big government is the most corrupt industry in America.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Government, America, Bigs

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• It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Party, Believe, Insanity

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• We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Rights, Issues, Fruit

  "Frontier Freedom: An Interview with Malcolm Wallop". Interview with Rick Henderson, William H. Mellor , Ill, reason.com. November 1995.

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• Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Powerful, Educational, Opportunity

  "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'The Great American Experiment'". Interview With Peter Evans, Helen Evans, www.ff.org. January 6, 2013.

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• We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Sea, Space, Needs

  "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'Frontier Freedom'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.ff.org. December 21, 2012.

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• You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Government, Identity, Roles

  "Frontier Freedom: An Interview with Malcolm Wallop". Interview with Rick Henderson, William H. Mellor , Ill, reason.com. November 1995.

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• I'm a big supporter of immigration.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Immigration, Bigs, Supporter

  "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'Frontier Freedom'". Interview with Rick Henderson, www.ff.org. December 21, 2012.

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• If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Crazy, Acceptance, Thinking

  "Ted McGinley reflects on faith, the meaning of the Cross and playing a pastor in 'Do You Believe?'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.ff.org.

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• Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Education, Opportunity, Choices

  "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'The Great American Experiment'". Interview With Peter Evans, Helen Evans, www.ff.org. January 6, 2013.

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• The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Incompetence

  "Ted McGinley reflects on faith, the meaning of the Cross and playing a pastor in 'Do You Believe?'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.ff.org.

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• So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

  Malcolm Wallop

  War, White, House

  "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'Frontier Freedom'". Interview With Rick Henderson, William “Chip” Mellor, www.ff.org. December 21, 2012.

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• Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

  Malcolm Wallop

  President, Doctrine, Architecture

  "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'Frontier Freedom'". Interview with Rick Henderson, www.ff.org. December 21, 2012.

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• The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Lying, Government, People

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• We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Identity, Needs, Cards

  "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'Frontier Freedom'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.ff.org. December 21, 2012.

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