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I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.
Don Nickles
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Don Nickles
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 6
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Former United States Senator
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Ponca City
Oklahoma
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If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.
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When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.
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But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill and chief among these is national defense.
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Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.
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ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.
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I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.
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My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.
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But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.
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And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership and you're part of that leadership.
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I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.
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