Don Nickles famous quotes

04-17-2025

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.
-- Don Nickles

#Leadership #Religious #Believe
[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news
-- Don Nickles

#News #Size #Taxes
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.
-- Don Nickles

#Responsibility #Government #Defense
I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.
-- Don Nickles

#Men #Thinking #Honest
If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.
-- Don Nickles

#Book #People #Cooking
I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.
-- Don Nickles

#Believe #Government #Roles
I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest.
-- Don Nickles

#Thinking #United States #World
My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.
-- Don Nickles

#Oklahoma #States
Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.
-- Don Nickles

#Years #Growth #Clinton
I hope there will be some good news and some good profits, and people will realize we have a lot of outstanding executives, and a lot of companies that are doing a good job, and those are good companies to invest in.
-- Don Nickles

#Jobs #People #News
Well, we want to make sure there's not securities fraud.
-- Don Nickles

#Hype #Want #Fraud
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.
-- Don Nickles

#Country #Technology #Mad
My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.
-- Don Nickles

#Book #Aggravation #Lasts
Jim mentioned I was an ALEC member, and that's correct.
-- Don Nickles

#Members
I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.
-- Don Nickles

#Thinking #Support #Reform
ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.
-- Don Nickles

#Thinking #Organization #Leader
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.
-- Don Nickles

#Looks #Buying #Bigger
I ALWAYS intended to return to the private sector,
-- Don Nickles

#Return #Private Sector
I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.
-- Don Nickles

#Independent #Independent Women #Israel
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.
-- Don Nickles

#Hate #America #Goal

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