Dixie Lee Ray

Politician

United States

1914 - 1994

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The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.
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The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.
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Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.
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The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.
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He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property.
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They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.
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There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.
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No question about that, the radicals are in charge.
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I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events.
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I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.
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