We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party.
Alan K. SimpsonThere 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.
Alan K. SimpsonIf you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
Alan K. SimpsonNow it's just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, 'What are you doing for your country?' you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.
Alan K. SimpsonNonetheless, GAO's conclusion that employer sanctions had somehow caused employment discrimination was contradicted by GAO's own Chief of Methodology, who criticized the GAO report. ...here is what she said, 'I believe the truth is that we have no strong causal link between IRCA and discrimination, and in [my] view it is just as likely that the discrimination we found has always been there, or that it is spurious, as that IRCA has caused it.'
Alan K. Simpson