Dick Armey Quotes

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

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.

If I were in the President's place, I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey, standing over me, saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'

Demagoguery beats data in making public policy.

The American Dream is not to own your own home, but to get your kids out of it.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.

I don't believe America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation.

We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.

Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.

The reason families need two incomes today is not to support themselves but to support the government.

The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.

Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.

At least if we don't close down the Environmental Protection Agency, we at least put a snaffle bit on them and ride the pony down.

I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president.

Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.

The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions.

The unemployment numbers are down to the lowest in 25 years.... The principle credit goes to Janet Reno, who continued to appoint special prosecutors.

Because the American people champion liberty, more people in the world live free today than at any time in history. Yet, there is more to be done and it is America who will lead the way.

I would be looking up from a pool of blood and hearing my wife ask 'How do I reload this thing'.

I would hate to have gone through life as a beautiful woman because they all too often get discounted.

Ain't no right way to do the wrong thing.

You can't get ahead while getting even.