Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
Thomas Allen "Tom" Coburnis an American politician and medical doctor. A member of the Republican Party, he was the junior United States Senator from Oklahoma...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 March 1948
CityCasper, WY
CountryUnited States of America
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I used to have a great fear of constitutional conventions. I have a great fear now of not having one.
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The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending.
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We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.
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The proof, of course, will be in the details of how we stay together,
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I'm not sure the will is here to sacrifice,
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I'm appalled and outraged by the intrusiveness of this questionnaire, ... It is ridiculous for the Census Bureau to ask personal questions that have nothing to do with their constitutional mandate to count the citizens of the United States.
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The new guidance for condom labels issued today by the FDA recognizes that current condom claims do not meet this medical standard.
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If you have somebody first of all who has that connection with their personal faith and their allegiance to the law, you don't get into the Roe v. Wade situation.
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In the state of Washington alone there are 17,590 homeless people and we're going to take money ... to build a sculpture park? I think not, ... I think that's not the right priority.
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I know the tribal issues. I was a congressman where most of the Indians are in this state. The problem is that most of them aren't Indians. The average Cherokee quantum is 1/512.
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I just don?t think it?s an emergency and I don?t think taxpayers ought to be paying for it.
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That record doesn't hold up to the smell test that has been presented here today and it's a little bit disturbing to me because it's this subtle way of trying to say you are not who you really are,
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They can stick their head in the sand, but the fact is, whatever passes the House is going to have some type of liability,
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A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, ... When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness, its potential, my heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization, less finger-pointing, less bitterness, less mindless partisanship.