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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We want judges who are well qualified. Ginsburg was confirmed with 96 votes. . . . I would hate to see a double standard,
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The proof, of course, will be in the details of how we stay together,
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We are in essence, through an American taxpayers' loan, subsidizing the Chinese to take more of our technology,
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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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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.
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A clear lesson in this tragedy is that one point person tends to be more effective than many point persons, ... We need to conduct oversight before the fact, not after the fact when it is too late to undo mistakes.
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He didn't give any answers, ... What else can you want out of a judge? He's not going to answer where he is. It's wrong to make him answer where he is.
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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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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.