Don Nickles Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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