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If we'd had government on [today's] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that railroads could not travel faster than a horse because it would be an unfair competitive advantage.

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Newt Gingrich
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 17
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