Don Nickles Quotes

It bothers me to read the comments of leaders of the Hamas and others who hate America that their goal is to have more weaponry capable of delivering all types of weapons of mass destruction.

[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news

If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.

Well, we want to make sure there's not securities fraud.

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

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.

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.

My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest.

Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

Jim mentioned I was an ALEC member, and that's correct.

I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.

ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.

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.

I ALWAYS intended to return to the private sector.