Tom DeLay quotes

You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget. (Tom DeLay)
My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism. View quote
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I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution. View quote
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Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all. View quote
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I am the federal government! View quote
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If Israel falls to the terrorists, the entire free world will tremble. To forsake Israel now would be tantamount to forsaking Great Britain in 1940. It is unthinkable, and it is unthinkable because the world wants to know if we believe freedom is worth fighting for. View quote
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Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes. View quote
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The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents. View quote
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We have a small faction, and they are a minority, who believe they are there to govern. Then there is the majority of us who believe that indeed we are there to govern but more importantly we are there to be an opposition to the Democratic philosophy and the only way to do that is through confrontation. View quote
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In short, it is the position of the people of the United States, as expressed by their representatives in Congress, that Israel's fight is our fight. And so shall it be until the last terrorist on earth is in a cell or a cemetery. View quote
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It's never been proven that air toxics [sic] are hazardous to people. (Tom DeLay)
I've been indicted for rules that don't even exist. View quote
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Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact. View quote
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A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability. View quote
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The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills. View quote
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The judges need to be intimidated. They need to uphold the Constitution. (If they don't behave) we're going to go after them in a big way. View quote
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Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour [the minimum wage in 1996] are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist. View quote
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Newt Gingrich is an incredible leader. He is a leader of our time, and he's going to lead us into the future. And we're going to accomplish the things that we've all dreamed of. View quote
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It's the fault of the liberals and the media and the Democrats, that from the very beginning have tried to undermine the will of the American people to fight this. View quote
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I have seen these liberal psychologists and sociologists talk about there is no need for the man in the family. The woman can take care of it. A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure. To provide stability. Not that a woman can't provide stability, I'm not saying that... It does take a father, though. View quote
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I have notified the speaker that I will temporarily step aside from my position as majority leader pursuant to rules of the House Republican Conference and the actions of the Travis County district attorney today. (Tom DeLay)
Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun? View quote
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So many minority youths had volunteered...that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like. View quote
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We've already found a secret memo coming out of the Justice Department. They're now going to go after 12 new perversions, things like bestiality, polygamy, having sex with little boys and making that legal. Not only that, but they have a whole list of strategies to go after the churches, the pastors, and any businesses that tries to assert their religious liberty. This is coming and it's coming like a tidal wave. View quote
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Kofi Annan's kangaroo court...a clear and present danger to the war on terrorism and Americans fighting it all over the world. View quote
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