James Traficant Quotes

d. 2014

James Anthony "Jim" Traficant, Jr. (May 8, 1941 – September 27, 2014) was an American politician who served as a Democratic, and later independent, member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio. He represented the 17th Congressional District, which centered on his hometown of Youngstown and included parts of three counties in northeast Ohio's Mahoning Valley.

Also known as: James A. Traficant, Jr., Jim Traficant, Traficant, Traficant, James A., Jr.

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Many of them are so dumb they could throw themselves at the ground and miss.

Beam me up. The IRS does not need more workers. The IRS does not need more money. These stumbling, fumbling, bumbling mistake-prone nincompoops have got to go.

Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11. Members of Congress are official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any bankrupt entity in world history, the U.S. government.

Speech in Congress (1993)

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