Dixie Lee Ray quotes

A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year. (Dixie Lee Ray)
Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle. View quote
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I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out. View quote
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The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed. View quote
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It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country. View quote
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Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. View quote
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We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so. View quote
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Anything that the private sector can do, the government can do it worse. View quote
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The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented. View quote
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We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make. We should be skeptical. View quote
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Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything. (Dixie Lee Ray)
I have confidence in people's basic common sense. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property. View quote
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No question about that, the radicals are in charge. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property. View quote
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It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Dixie Lee Ray)

Dixie Lee Ray

Dixie Lee Ray - Image
Occupation: American Politician
Born: September 3, 1914
Died: January 2, 1994
Quotes count: 21
Wikipedia: Dixie Lee Ray

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