Top 57 Tom Delay Quotes
#1. Tom DeLay himself has never been the issue. DeLay is a symptom of a larger disease?a sick Republican culture of corruption that touches everyone who took his dirty money, voted for his corrupt leadership, or sat silently while their party has sold our government to the highest bidder.
Howard Dean
#2. I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas.
Chris Bell
#3. Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.
Martin Frost
#4. Former U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, has been sentenced to three years in prison. One year for money laundering and two more for his performance on 'Dancing with the Stars.'
Jay Leno
#5. Did all of Singer's efforts to discredit mainstream science matter? When asked in 1995 where he got his assessments of ozone depletion, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, probably the most powerful man in Congress at the time, said, "my assessment is from reading people like Fred Singer."93
Naomi Oreskes
#6. Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.
Howard Dean
#7. When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.
Rahm Emanuel
#8. Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
P. J. O'Rourke
#9. The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.
Moby
#10. Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.
Tom DeLay
#11. A woman can take care of the family.
Tom DeLay
#12. Only Christianity offers a comprehensive worldview that covers all areas of life and thought - every aspect of creation. Only Christianity offers a way to live in response to the realities that we find in this world - only Christianity.
Tom DeLay
#13. Mr. Speaker, there are some in this Chamber who believe that Christians, like well-behaved children, should be seen and not heard ... Christians will not remain silent. We are here to stay.
Tom DeLay
#14. 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.
Tom DeLay
#15. Clinton's bombing campaign has caused all of these problems to explode
Tom DeLay
#16. American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy.
Tom DeLay
#17. 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.
Tom DeLay
#18. You can support the troops but not the president.
Tom DeLay
#19. That's pretty tough talk from a guy who has fewer days at work this year than he has houses.
Tom DeLay
#20. Howard Dean is a cruel and extremist demagogue. And Howard Dean is as ignorant on John Ashcroft as he is on national security. If this cruel, loudmouth extremist is the cream of the Democrat crop, next November's going to make the 1984 election look like a squeaker.
Tom DeLay
#21. Without any coherent international blueprint the White House has bombed its way around the globe, while dropping troops far and wide for ill-defined peacemaking duties. This policy has gutted the American military which now must be rebuilt.
Tom DeLay
#22. For all its faults, it is partisanship - based on core principles- that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying too far from the mainstream and that constantly refreshes our politics with new ideas and new leaders.
Tom DeLay
#23. We are witnessing the criminalization of conservative politics.
Tom DeLay
#24. Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.
Tom DeLay
#25. The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners of this Earth. It must be war without quarter, pursuit without rest, victory without qualification
Tom DeLay
#26. It's the arrogance of man to think that man can change the climate of the world. Only nature can change the climate. A volcano, for instance.
Tom DeLay
#27. I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics. If someone has lost his moral compass and has to go to jail to find it, then I believe it will make him a much better person.
Tom DeLay
#28. Forgiveness does not absolve you from consequences.
Tom DeLay
#29. The best that can be said about embryonic stem cell research is that it is scientific exploration into the potential benefits of killing human beings.
Tom DeLay
#31. These are people that don't want to protect the American people ... [T]hey will do anything, spend all the time and resources they can, to avoid confronting evil.
Tom DeLay
#32. Calculated and craven political stunt.
Tom DeLay
#33. It's never been proven that air toxics are hazardous to people.
Tom DeLay
#34. He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do and everywhere I am. He is training me.
Tom DeLay
#35. It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.
Tom DeLay
#36. 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.
Tom DeLay
#38. My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.
Tom DeLay
#39. Just sprinkle a little lime to neutralize the acid.
Tom DeLay
#40. Until we begin to discover the national values that for centuries have allowed us to rise above our natures and act as civilized men and women, our country will continue to suffer the steady deterioration in standards that disturbs us all.
Tom DeLay
#41. Cutting carbon in the supply chain is the next critical stage in the business contribution to reduce carbon emissions to tackle climate change and, represents a significant commercial opportunity
Tom DeLay
#42. Does life have any meaningful purpose?
Tom DeLay
#43. I've been indicted for rules that don't even exist
Tom DeLay
#44. Every country in the world had a bureaucracy, whose entire purpose was to delay important things from happening.
Tom Clancy
#45. Progressive companies regard climate change as an opportunity rather than a threat
Tom DeLay
#46. 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.
Tom DeLay
#47. Don't send your kids to Baylor. And don't send your kids to [Texas] A&M ... Texas A&M used to be a conservative university. It's lost all of its conservatism ... My daughter went there. You know, she had horrible experiences with coed dorms and guys who spent the weekends in the rooms with girls.
Tom DeLay
#48. 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.
Tom DeLay
#49. Only business can build a low-carbon economy. Business is all about seeing ideas and growing them. Businesses have the resources, the people, the technical skills to make things happen - and they have the channels to market
Tom DeLay
#50. 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.
Tom DeLay
#51. I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church.
Tom DeLay
#52. 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.
Tom DeLay
#53. Kofi Annan's kangaroo court ... a clear and present danger to the war on terrorism and Americans fighting it all over the world.
Tom DeLay
#54. You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.
Tom DeLay
#55. A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability. Not that I'm saying a woman can't provide stability, I'm not saying that ... It does take a father though.
Tom DeLay
#56. 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.
Tom DeLay
#57. If we had those 40 million children that were [aborted] over the last 30 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today.
Tom DeLay
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