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Now it's just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, 'What are you doing for your country?' you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.

Alan K. Simpson

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Alan K. Simpson
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: September 2
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