Quotes from Alan K. Simpson

If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

If children who commit crimes are not given the opportunity of a second chance, they may die in prison for acts made before having developed the cognitive and emotional skills needed to make informed and smart decisions and choices.

When a young person is sent 'up the river,' we need to remember that all rivers can change course.

Peer pressure is a huge part of youth behavior, whether one grows up in Washington, D.C., or Cody, Wyo.

I am living proof that youth possess a unique capacity to grow and change - that the child who seems hopeless today could go on to change the world.

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

The AARP is a group of 3.8 million Americans bound together by a common love of airline discounts and insurance discounts.

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.

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.

The concept of government of, by, and for the people isn't just a platitude. It's the moral construction of our nation. It's in our bones.

If the need for comprehensive campaign finance reform was not already clear, the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United permitting unlimited corporate and union spending in campaigns certainly made it so in 2010.

Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.

Let us end 'don't ask, don't tell.'