Henry Hyde Quotes

#1. We can adhere to the Henry Hyde amendment by saying that no federal funds will be used for abortions. And that's the bottom line for me.

Henry Cuellar

#2. If we were in another country, we would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families, for what they're doing to this country.

Alec Baldwin

#3. New York ladies all look immaculate.

Zac Posen

#4. Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.

Henry Hyde

#5. The solution is so obvious, but for so many of us we would travel a hundred miles out of the way to avoid it, gather a thousand opinions on the way and take a pit stop in fear to check our map before we proceed through hell. Heaven was always a direct flight with no layovers.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. I think it's fair to have a vote on a resolution for censure.

Henry Hyde

#7. Often she would lock herself in her room and sitting before the mirror, apply the makeup of John Barrymore, Barrymore of The Sea Beast or of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Seeing these gruesome images in the mirror she would being to rave. "Who am I?" she would say. "What am I?

Henry Miller

#8. I certainly would like to prevent, if I could legally, anybody having an abortion, a rich woman, a middle-class woman, or a poor woman. Unfortunately, the only vehicle available is the ... Medicaid bill.

Henry Hyde

#9. I don't have a sort of Amway-esque chart up on my refrigerator or anything.

Jon Stewart

#10. these are now commonly available through specialist gaming shops and online. There can be no logical objection to their use, and indeed many sets of wargames rules, and particularly role-playing games, prescribe their use in a variety of circumstances.

Henry Hyde

#11. There is only one way to respect the substance of any purported God-given moral edict: consider it conscientiously in the full light of reason, using all the evidence at our command. No God that was pleased by displays of unreasoning love would be worthy of worship.

Daniel C. Dennett

#12. This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted

Henry Hyde

#13. Suffice it to say Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.

Henry Hyde

#14. The founding fathers gave the House of Representatives one function when it comes to cleansing the office of the presidency and that is impeachment, .. Whether or not a resolution of censure is appropriate is something beyond our constitutional authority.

Henry Hyde

#15. Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch." His companion's prayer is forgotten.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. "Jesus said to 5 of 7 churches, "Repent or Else." That should be the focus of every pastor, denomination. We are headed for the OR ELSE."

Michael Catt

#17. When I met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always

Rita Rudner

#18. It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

Tom Stoppard

#19. Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.

Bill Crawford

#20. The law exists to protect the weak from the strong.

Henry Hyde

#21. The skeptical relativist attempt to mandate a naked public square is undemocratic. It is also a danger to democracy.

Henry Hyde

#22. There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall.

Henry Hyde

#23. Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#24. We are going to follow wherever the facts lead us.

Henry Hyde

#25. Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.

Naomi Judd

#26. In the morning and the end of every day, I thank that I'm alive.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#27. I mean, I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.

Hillary Clinton

#28. America is hungry for people who believe in something.

Henry Hyde

#29. The way I viewed it, there were lots of very ugly things in London, so, on the occasions when something beautiful with a glossy coat came along and nudged its cold nose into your hand, it seemed churlish not to take a few moments to celebrate the mere fact of its existence.

Tom Cox

#30. Which even though we do have a very visual aesthetic and identity, we love it when people make their own videos to the music.

Lizzy Plapinger

#31. I'm opposed to censure, .. Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either.

Henry Hyde