Alan K. Simpson

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. ”

Before holding elective office - 12 years in the Wyoming House of Representatives and 18 years in the U.S. Senate - I served a different type of time. I was on probation for a federal offense committed as a teenager. ”

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system. ”

In World War II, a British mathematician named Alan Turing led the effort to crack the Nazis' communication code. He mastered the complex German enciphering machine, helping to save the world, and his work laid the basis for modern computer science. Does it matter that Turing was gay? ”

He's a million rubber bands in his resilience. ”

I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue. ”