Don Nickles
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Biography
Donald Lee Nickles is an American politician and lobbyist who was a Republican United States senator from Oklahoma from 1981 to 2005. He was considered both a fiscal and social conservative.
"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."
"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."
"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."