Kevin Madden Quotes (48 Quotes)

Mr. Boehner believes that Congress has a role in this issue with regard to procedural review and oversight.

If other coaches paid as much attention to details like Coach Hatcher, they might be winning 800 games.

is limited to a political organization and does not affect Mr. DeLay.

Critics of law enforcement fail to recognize that material witness statutes are designed with judicial oversight safeguards and are critical to aiding criminal investigations ranging from organized-crime rackets to human trafficking.

He's still a member of Congress, and he's still going to help on the agenda.

This is a baseless investigation that is over three years old, and only now Ronnie Earle is issuing subpoenas It's a ridiculous stunt to try and cover up the fact that Ronnie Earle's partisan investigation has turned into an embarrassment for him.

President Obama should be championing American prominence, not apologizing for it.

Our only strategy and option is victory Democrats are more willing to concede defeat than anything. What Republicans have to do is continually tell people that they have a real clear choice on Iraq and on national security as a whole.

Mr. DeLay believes his support in the Republican conference is strong because it is clear he has always acted properly, with a full and public disclosure of his actions.

We believe he will be totally exonerated and return to his majority leader post.

And what really drove him was to get rid of that nonsense and not be talkers but to be doers.

Mr. DeLay makes decisions and sets legislative priorities based on good policy and what is best for his constituents and the country. Any suggestion of outside influence is manipulative and absurd. Mr. DeLay has very firm beliefs and he fights very hard for them.

Mr. DeLay believes everyone should cooperate with the Department of Justice, that his counsel has contacted officials and informed them of his willingness to cooperate should that be required and that everything was fully vetted by lawyers, promptly and p

Mr. DeLay explained to officials what he has always said publicly his role ... was limited to serving on the political action committee's advisory board along with other elected Texas officials and to appearing at fundraising events,

Leadership knew this was going to be a tough vote. Mr. DeLay worked to help leadership get the votes needed. Everybody knows Mr. DeLay is someone members often seek counsel from.

The idea is that there are a number of challenging issues that draw stark lines of contrast between how Republicans govern and how the Democrats govern.

Ronnie Earle's previous misuse of his office has resulted in failed prosecutions and we trust his partisan grandstanding will strike out again, as it should,

They could not get Tom DeLay at the polls. They could not get Mr. DeLay on the House floor. Now they're trying to get him into the courtroom. This is not going to detract from the Republican agenda.

Mr. DeLay has a unique understanding of a lot of the big policy debates, and he is somebody who has always worked in the past with his colleagues to make the case that their votes are important. That is one of the reasons he got into leadership, and peopl

It's been very clear that there's a lot of support for Mr. DeLay to fight these charges.

I think the American public knows when the opposition party of the president engages in such invective, and they reject it.

this office will go about its normal course of business.

Mr. DeLay is not endorsing any candidates for leadership. He believes it is a decision best left up to the (House Republican) conference.

He handles it the way he handles everything - with a good sense of humor and without ever really losing focus on his priorities. He's a regular guy with a big job. That is always the way John Boehner has approached his life in politics. It's an approach that has proven successful, and that is why he is majority leader.

He's someone who has always had a very strong, natural pigment, and he likes to spend a lot of time outside. So when you're outside a lot and you have a very tan-friendly pigment like that, you're going to have a tan that makes everybody else in Washington, especially in the winter months, very jealous.

Mr. DeLay is still going to play an active role in advocating the agenda. That's not going to change because of a temporary step-aside from the majority leader title.

The one thing I think is pretty clear is that the arguments we levied when these indictments first came down, we've been vindicated. These things were baseless and manufactured. The judge threw out an indictment that Ronnie Earle spent three years to get. ... Members are starting to see that this is moving very rapidly. ... The momentum is with Mr. DeLay.

This indictment is nothing more than prosecutorial retribution by a partisan Democrat,

If they are good enough for health care investigations, good enough for drug investigations, they should be provided to law enforcement in terror investigations.

Mr. DeLay was of the mind-set that members of Congress were more adjusted to the funding needs of their district than federal-agency bureaucrats.

DeLay assured the district attorney's office that he was not involved in the day-to-day operations of TRMPAC, and to his knowledge all activities were properly reviewed and approved by lawyers for the PAC.

Mr. DeLay is not endorsing anyone. He believes it's a decision that is best left up to the conference.

We make every effort to work with key staff in these offices to sync up our legislative and communications offices so they have the very best access and the very best information about what issues the conference is working on and how we can help them message with constituents back home.

We're confident that the appeals court will render a decision based on the facts and the law that agrees with this sentiment.

Mr DeLay is dedicated to growing our economy, protecting America's national security interests and reforming government. He has done so by developing a plan, raising funds to help elect colleagues who share his vision and then advocating achievement of those goals.

It's a new leadership style. You do a lot more listening than talking.

Congress will get right to work at crafting a comprehensive Hurricane Katrina relief package.

The president's leadership on the issue of homeland security is a policy area where he's been very decisive and has backed up his policy priorities with funding,

Some Republicans have blamed Blanco and other local officials for initial missteps. It's not Louisiana vs. Mississippi, ... It's what went right in Mississippi in planning and recovery vs. what went wrong in Louisiana.

I just may use that photographer for my family Christmas photo.

His sense of humor is probably the personality trait that gets him through questions like that.

I just think the support for Mr. Delay has been emphatic.

And he appreciates that a majority of his colleagues won't give in to what is essentially character assassination by insinuation.

Mr. DeLay remains confident that we can continue to move the legal schedule rapidly toward either dismissal or a trial sometime in January.

We've taken advantage of a combination of lower-than-expected gas prices, asset management agreements and storage access to reduce the costs of natural gas purchases at our operating companies in February and March.

I don't have an opinion of what they're doing. The practice of encouraging trade associations or private-sector firms with regard to their hiring practices is not something this office directs or is interested in directing.

He believes this requires a personal defense. We go out and make sure he has the proper venues to do that.

There's a parallel campaign going on, with his audiences, his constituency in Texas and the Republican conference here in Washington. It's important that his constituents and his colleagues understand the egregious nature of the charges he faces.