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The reason we tend to support Republicans is they're taking us toward the cliff at only 70 miles per hour miles an hour and the Democrats are taking us 100 miles an hour.

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Charles Koch
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: November 1
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We oppose all corporate welfare, whether we benefit or not. You will find that our policy positions mainly hurt our profitability rather than help it.
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All of our policies are based on whether it will make - enable people to improve their lives or it will make their lives worse.
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A lot of the Republican rhetoric better than the Democrats'. But when they're in office, it's pretty much the same thing. It's serving their supporters, it's corporate welfare, it's cronyism which is so destructive, particularly to the disadvantaged.
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First word [of my father] when I arrived [as a CEO] is, 'Son, i hope your first deal is a loser, otherwise, you'll think you're a lot smarter than you are.' But he had tremendous values, tremendous integrity, humility, work ethic and terrific thirst for knowledge.
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I've always believed in the saying that there is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit.
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Why I've never been that fond of politics and only got into it recently kicking and screaming, because I don't think politicians are going to reverse the trajectory of this country. I think it's going to depend on the American people understanding what is fair and what makes their lives better.
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Our vision controls the way we think and, therefore, the way we act the vision we have of our jobs determines what we do and the opportunities we see or don't see.
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I don't have all the answers. I have a lot of questions. And I have some basic principles.
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If somebody is doing more and more to make other people's lives better, have them make all they can, if that's what drives them, because that's what we want.
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You can pay certain people more money and stuff but that's just going to be a transfer from one group to another. The only way people's wages are going to rise overall, or average median income is going to rise, is if you increase productivity.
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They say your genetics are going to set your direction regardless of what happens, but I think there's more to it than that.
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The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign.
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I get a lot of death threats. But the way I look at it, I feel I have a moral obligation to do the best I can to make the country better for everybody, and that threatens certain people because they're going to have much less power. I want the power to go back to people making decisions over their own lives rather than some experts making it.
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The old idea that some genius pulls all of this stuff out of the air is ridiculous. As Ridley pointed out, the only way Edison could invent the lightbulb is because all the elements had been developed before. That's obvious it wasn't just his genius - 20 others developed it at the same time. And that's true for almost every invention and discovery.
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A market system is not a profit system, it's a profit-and-loss system.
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We try to reward people according to the value they create, value they create in society and for the company.
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We must measure what leads to results, not simply what is easy to measure.
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I like to think that I try to learn something every day - and change my views, modify my views as I learn.
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In America, we are just moving the chairs around and spending huge amounts of money rather than having them go in making people's lives better.
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