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Donald Lee Nickles (born December 6, 1948) is an American politician and lobbyist who was a Republican United States Senator from Oklahoma from 1981 until 2005. He was considered both a fiscal and social conservative. After retiring from the Senate as the longest serving senator from Oklahoma (1981-2003), he founded the Nickles Group, a lobbying firm.

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

Book, Books, Cooking, People

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

Invest, Thinking, United, United States, World

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.

Districts, Oklahoma, Senate, State, States

I ALWAYS intended to return to the private sector.

Intended, Private, Private Sector, Return, Sector

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

Believe, Government, Happen, Local, Roles, State

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

Future, Growing, Leader, Leaders, Organization, Thinking

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

Honest, Men, Thinking, Work

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.

Bigger, Biggest, Buying, Inflated, Look, Looks

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

Contains, Internal, News, Size, Taxation

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.

Country, Mad, Significant, Technology, Warheads

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.

Believe, Leadership, Personal, Religious, Talking, United

Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.

Clinton, Exploded, Growth, Question, Years

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.

Executives, Good, Invest, Jobs, News, People

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.

Defense, Federal, Government, Levels, Responsibility

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

Aggravation, Book, Books, Comment, Congress, Lasts

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

Alec, Correct, Jim, Member, Members, Mentioned

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

Bipartisan, Good, Reform, Support, Think, Thinking

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

Independent, Israel, Nation, Sovereign, Thought

It bothers me to read the comments of leaders of the Hamas and others who hate America that their goal is to have more weaponry capable of delivering all types of weapons of mass destruction.

America, Capable, Goal, Hate, Mass, Mass Destruction

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

Fraud, Hype, Make, Securities, Want