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Demagoguery beats data in making public policy.

Dick Armey

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Dick Armey
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 7
Administrator
Assistant Professor
Economist
Fellow
Former Majority Leader
Politician
Professor
University Teacher
Cando
North Dakota
Richard Keith Armey
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Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.
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I would be looking up from a pool of blood and hearing my wife ask 'How do I reload this thing'.
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I would hate to have gone through life as a beautiful woman because they all too often get discounted.
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