...We urge this Subcommittee to move forward rapidly in its consideration of these bills. Mr. Chairman, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. Tobacco is a drug. Lets treat it as a drug. I want to thank the Subcommittee for the...

...interests, it should be taxed as a corporation because it looks like a corporation. As the old saying goes, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. We submit that this "looks-like-a-duck" argument is devoid of intellectual content....

...It is time to treat tobacco products as we do other life-threatening, dangerous, addictive products. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then, Mr. Chairman, it must be a duck. [The attachment to Mr. Ballin's prepared statement follows:]...

...which influence those prospects. A remarkably plain spoken zoologist probably gave birth to the adage: "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck — it's probably a duck." In hopes of being an equally plain spoken securities analyst, let me say...

...LEWIS. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dr. Houston, your comments you go back to the proverbial duck . . . "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck." And, in your present policy you basically say that about cheese labeling, unless I'm...

...to be more complete, and not quoting any ancient Greeks — but rather, Cardinal Gushing of Boston. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it is a duck. That is the test, it seems to me, to be applied with respect to taxes. If ordinary people think...

...and Mr. Richard Darman were therefore quite right when they agreed in the Other Body several days ago that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck — then it's a duck. Ducks are popular at the moment because they've helped to simplify the debate...

...of truth about the world. Neither they, nor that world, can be dismissed by a philosophy proclaiming that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a social construction of a duck. Since anthropology moves across the whole spectrum from symbolism...

...was someone who Mr. FEIGHAN [continuing]. Had fallen under the category of Mr. LEVITSKY [continuing]. Looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, everybody would say that is probably a duck. So, that was a reasonable belief that he had been involved...

...was someone who Mr. FEIGHAN [continuing]. Had fallen under the category of Mr. LEVITSKY [continuing]. Looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, everybody would say that is probably a duck. So, that was a reasonable belief that he had been involved...