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Larry McDonald

Larry McDonald

Larry McDonald

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Lawrence Patton McDonald was an American physician, politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Georgia's 7th congressional district as a Democrat from 1975 until he was killed as a passenger on board Korean Air Lines Flight 007 when it was shot down by Soviet interceptors.

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"The complexity of social organization does not change. Our technologically sophisticated industrial society is more complex than the agrarian society of America in the eighteenth century. In this regard, that was a simpler world. But the complexities of politics (politics here meaning the science of governing) do not change much. The basic political problems confronting the Framers of our Constitution were as complex as our political problems today—perhaps more so, because they were striking off into the dangerous unknown, whereas all we need do is return to the fine highway we were once on."
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"I personally believe that we dont need a lot more laws, I think weve got far too many laws on the books now, thats part of the problem.... We dont need more government, more laws; we need a lot less. Im up there [in Washington, D.C.], trying to dismantle a lot of this giant government.... When you pass a law with the current attitude in the Congress what do you get in a law today? You get either more spending, or more taxes, or more controls.... Which do you want? Do you want more spending? I think weve got too much. Do you want more taxes? I think were taxed too heavily now. Do you want more controls over your life? Does anybody say Hey look, I really believe the federal government needs to control me. I want to be a slave. Please tell me how to run every facet of my life. I dont hear many people saying that. I think most people say I think its time we get the government off our backs, and out of our pockets."
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