Economist and Texas Republican politician Dick Armey was first elected to Congress in 1984. By 1995, he has risen to the post of Majority Leader, as the Republican Revolution swept Washington.
He remained in that post until his election defeat in 2002.
The following year, Armey wrote a little book of wit and wisdom called Armey’s Axioms.
So here now, from 2003, Dick Armey:
Dick Armey is 80 now, and works as a consultant and lobbyist.