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1931–2025 United States
Alan Kooi Simpson (born 2 September 1931 – March 14, 2025) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate (1979–97). He also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina.
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My thinking shifted when I read that the military was firing translators because they are gay.
Our differences and prejudices pale next to our historic challenge.
We've got only one thing to say: "Klaatu barada nikto."
My God, we'd better start talking sense before it is too late. We need every able-bodied, smart patriot to help us win this war.
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
Eyewitness to Power (2001)
Humor is the universal solvent against the abrasive elements of life.
As a lifelong Republican who served in the Army in Germany, I believe it is critical that we review — and overturn — the ban on gay service in the military.
There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans, and I have come to realize that "gay" is an artificial category when it comes to measuring a man or woman's on-the-job performance or commitment to shared goals. It says little about the person. Our differences and prejudices pale next to our historic challenge.
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
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Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half-empty one are contained in that word.
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