Tom DeLay Quotes (285 Quotes)


    I understand there may be an opportunity for the Amendment on another bill, like energy, and you know we will do whatever we can to help... Thanks for all you've done.

    I'm sure I'm going to see much more of you.

    lawfully collected from individuals who knew what they were contributing to.

    A strong Republican principle is to rein in the court system that has protected predatory, self-serving litigants,

    is going to be very hard to defeat.


    We must not allow our president to be undermined by those who want his job,

    Waters denounced the decision, which she said would weigh most heavily upon minority and poor neighborhoods, as the most un-American thing that can be done. ... a travesty.

    The idea that American taxpayers should start rewarding communist piracy is as contemptible as it is unlikely to happen,

    I had no fiduciary responsibility. I had no managerial responsibility. I and four other elected officials were on an advisory board. I went to five fundraisers, ... They did use my name to raise money, but that was the extent. So, I didn't know what they were doing.

    This is one of the weakest, most baseless indictments in American history. It's a sham and Mr. Earle knows it. It's a charge that cannot hold up even under the most glancing scrutiny,

    You can't deal with 5 million people and not have some waste in money. But the bulk is going to go to the people and the property that deserve it.

    Mr. Earle and his staff know it. And I will prove it.

    Because Ronnie Earle and the Democratic Party could not beat me at the ballot box and could not beat me on the floor of the House of Representatives, they are now desperately trying to challenge me in a courtroom,

    They want to win the White House more than they want to win the war, and our enemies know it,

    Let's dispense with the notion that Congress can punish the president either by a so-called censure or by a fine or any other punishment, ... Such a deal is unconstitutional, and anyone who believes in that kind of deal believes not in the rule of law, but the rule of man, and needs to read the Constitution.

    I brought this matter -- which I discovered on my own -- to the attention of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to alert the chairman and ranking member,

    The latest attack on Chairman Henry Hyde, launched by Salon -- a close ally of the Clinton White House -- is the most despicable, most disgraceful, most disgusting piece of rumor-mongering that I have ever seen.

    There is no fat left to cut in the federal budget.

    I am feeling more comfortable with the mission after the briefing the president gave, ... The military is more in charge than before.

    I have no fear whatsoever about any investigation into me or my personal or professional activities.

    advising the speaker and the leadership. I worked the votes, did it all.

    Ronnie Earle is trying to criminalize politics.

    The Iraqi people are starting to believe that the United States and the coalition forces are serious.

    This morning, in an act of blatant political partisanship, a rogue district attorney in Travis County, Texas, named Ronnie Earle charged me with one count of criminal conspiracy a reckless charge wholly unsupported by the facts, ... This is one of the weakest, most baseless indictments in American history. It's a sham and Mr. Earle knows it.

    He vetoed the foreign aid bill because he wanted to increase foreign aid by 30 percent, and he wanted to take it out of the Social Security surplus,

    If you raise the taxes on these people, you might not have the jobs to provide, so the tax cuts are incredibly important.

    This is a direct assault on U.S. House of Representatives, and don't be under any illusions that this is a partisan affair because according to reports, allies of the president are investigating members of both sides of the aisle.

    I'm very proud of my relationship with you. I'm very proud of my record, ... They won't win by criminalizing politics or by the politics of personal destruction because we'll fight them every step of the way.

    I believe that if you commit perjury under oath and you suborn perjury and you obstruct justice, then you ought to be impeached, ... Meet the Press.

    orchestrate a conspiracy to intimidate members of Congress by using their past lives.

    That evidence is coming, ... when it's timely.

    Well, I hope so. I can do my job with or without the title. That doesn't concern me.

    Sure, when you get this number of people, there are stories of sexual exploitation. But in interviewing these employees one-on-one, there was no evidence of any of that going on. No evidence of sweatshops as portrayed by the national media. It's a beautiful island with beautiful people who are happy about what's happening.

    It's amazing the professionalism that I've noticed. The morale is up, ... They have a sense of accomplishment and they're feeling very good about the job that they're doing. They also understand how complicated this is in rebuilding a whole country from scratch.

    In an interview on CNN's Evans, Novak, Hunt Shields ... it doesn't matter whether it's before the election or after the election. We're going to do our job.

    The American people have heard the arguments in favor of state-sanctioned, same-sex marriage, in favor of partial birth abortion, in favor of ridding the public square of any mention of our nation's religious heritage. We've heard the arguments and we disagree.

    Because of the courage of Discovery's crew, and the commitment of everyone at NASA and the entire space community, our generation has an opportunity to go farther into space and further into the void, to do the impossible and answer the unsolvable, ... For that chance, we all owe the crew more than our thanks.

    No, that's for the lawyers to handle.

    We hope many other congressmen would see this as a success and will want to do this in their own districts, and that' s how we hope to get this around the country,

    The only choice is between victory and defeat.

    There's a lot of things that would increase supply which is incredibly important in order to hold down the price and have the price go down,

    I will absolutely be exonerated.

    Any partisan crackpot district attorney who might want to indict a member of our leadership.

    We have reason to believe that top aides that have access to the Oval Office have been orchestrating a conspiracy to intimidate members of Congress by using their past lives as an embarrassment to intimidate,

    You can support the troops but not the president.

    There are about a thousand churches right here in Houston, and a lot of them are helping people with housing, but FEMA says they can't reimburse faith-based organizations,

    It's very simple. The president is not supported by the House, and the military is supported by the House.


    It is sad that the president's attack dogs don't know the difference between breaking the law and making a mistake decades ago,

    I know when you stand up for what you believe in, this kind of thing is going to happen, ... It's part of the fight. I know Democrats hate me and they hate what I believe in and they hate the amazing things we've been able to accomplish ever since we've been in the majority.


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